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Vol. 4 ... #8
The apostasy in the churches today
The apostle Paul said the day of the Lord, the second coming of Jesus, could not happen unless the apostasy first came in the churches ... the falling away in the churches ... the churches falling away from scripture and Bible doctrines is the apostasy in the church.
II Thess. 2 (NASB)... 1 Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, 2 that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so- called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.
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In the 1970's and 1980's, they were teaching in churches that there was one antichrist.
But the apostle John said even in his day there were "many" antichrists.
I Jn. 2 ... 18 Little children, it is the last time:and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
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Those persons who depart from Bible, from the scriptures, and go another way inside the churches and teach another way inside the churches are "antichrist" ... Those of the congregation who worship their pastors and go along with the change in church doctrine are also antichrist.
Paul says both they (the leaders) and the followers will be deluded "by God" and will be damned in the apostate churches.
II Thess. 2 (KJV) ... 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The scriptures they cannot explain away are just eliminated ... they just don't speak of these scriptures at all ...
Mt. 5:32 ... Jesus said ... whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
When was the last time you heard this spoken at church? Does your pastor warn the men in the congregation telling them they will commit adultery if they marry a divorced woman?
Have you ever heard this warning spoken at a church gathering?
Why not? That is what Jesus said. Aren't we supposed to speak at church gathering the warnings spoken by Jesus in the Bible?
This is part of the apostasy in the church ... eliminating doctrines of the Bible which would be unpopular with the congregation and changing the instruction to allow people in the church groups to do that which they want to do, pleasing themselves ... and to feel approved by the church in that which they do.
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II Thess. 2 (Paul speaks of the apostasy in the church) ... 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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God gave me the following dream to show me what is going on in the churches.
In this dream, a meeting was going on. I went into the room and sat down and began listening. A man was speaking to the people. All of a sudden another man rushed in and said, "Stop ... Wait ... Can't you see? ... It's too late ... It's already begun." The first man resumed speaking. I looked out the window to see what had already begun. I was very shocked at what I saw. A yellow civil defense speaker was on a tall pole. Out of the speaker I saw a gas coming toward us. It was a poisonous gas and it would be used to kill us. Our own speaker that was put there to warn us was being used to kill us. I looked at the man sitting next to me. He had a big smile on his face. He was looking directly at the man who was speaking. But he was a corpse. He was dead. I looked around the room and saw all the people sitting there were dead. As I sat among them, I felt myself becoming drowsy and I knew the gas coming from the speaker was killing me and if I continued to sit there among them I too would become dead.
You can't just sit there among them.
But what do you do if you can't find another church group? Try to find at least one other person who has Holy Spirit and wants to obey and follow Bible and is unwilling to compromise. Where two or three are gathered together Jesus is in the midst of them, says Jesus. (Mt. 18:20) Share godly things with that person. You are the church.
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I Thess 5 ... But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
(Today homosexuals in USA are approved openly as never before. They are praised for their "courage" in telling that they are homosexual. They must feel peace and safety as never before.)
Also sex before marriage is viewed by masses today as okay ... fornication
Remarriage of women after divorce is totally normal to the masses.
Only a few people cling to I Cor. 7:10-11 ... Paul says ... 10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband:and let not the husband put away his wife.
Which churches do you know today that obey this "commandment of the Lord" and refuse to permit divorced women to remarry?
All these things show the apostasy.
You cannot continue to sit in an apostate church. To do so will bring God's wrath upon you.
I Thess. 5 ...
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day:we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ (The Word),
(By following THE WORD we obtain salvation ... we can't disregard THE WORD ... we can't sit and allow the evil against the scriptures to reign... we must speak up and demand godliness around us ... When we speak THE WORD, the evil will flee from us ... and those who are going to be saved will repent and conform themselves to THE WORD...)
10 WHO died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with HIM.
11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.