How do I know we are moving fast toward the return of Jesus?
The primary reason I know this is the timing of God in speaking to me.
1980 ... message for the church ... taking thoughts captive and how to follow the Holy Spirit.
1982-2017 ... judgment messages ... God opened my eyes to sins being committed by ministers, especially by big time ministers ... and sins in the churches. I tried to persuade them to turn to God... So far as I could tell, no one turned to God. Much grief over the way of the ministers who would not turn to God and over individuals who would not turn to God.
March, 2017 ... God gave me one word to show me what was happening in the churches ... This word explained to me why they would not return to scripture ... The "restraint" against antichrist in the churches had been removed thus allowing antichrist to move into the churches.
That which restrained antichrist was the scripture. As soon as the church fell away from portions of scripture, the restraint that held antichrist back was removed and antichrist could move into the church group.
The people in the church group who fell away from portions of scripture could not return to scripture because God had brought them strong delusion that they would believe a lie that they would all be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. II Thessalonians 2:11-12
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Apostasy has been going on with antichrist working in the churches since the days of John and Paul.
I John 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.
It was not going to be one antichrist any more than there is one devil.
It is a spirit of antichrist which lives in the heart of many men and women and by which they fall away from scripture.
When they do this God brings them a "strong delusion" that they would believe a lie. Because the delusion is from God, they cannot be turned from their delusion.
They are going to be "damned", according to II Thessalonians 2.
11-12 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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What I look at is not the decades of the apostasy, but when God revealed antichrist in the churches to me. March, 2017
The timing of God.
I grieved over the churches and ministers as far back as 1982.
But God did not show me the reason these people could not repent and my grief continued over them until March, 2017, when I saw they could not repent because the delusion they lived under was from God.
This causes me to believe the return of Jesus and the Wrath of God is much closer, at the threshold of our own lifetime.
And the current message I have is to try to save those who haven't been deluded by God.
I speak of saving the church who still holds to all scripture.
That part of the church must feel very alone and confused now when so many in churches fall away from portions of scripture and live as the world lives and feel approved by doing this.
This is the strong delusion that God sends to damn these people who fall away from scripture.
If a person believes it is all right for a man to marry a divorced woman, he has fallen away already, casting aside that which Jesus said in Matthew 5:32 ... along with many other objectionable scriptures.
... Jesus said: But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. Matthew 5:32
But they fall away from that scripture also, approving divorce and remarriage of the divorced woman in the church itself.
And they look for one antichrist to come, but they themselves are antichrist!
(Opposite to scripture in their own thinking.)
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