The time for half-hearted commitment to Christ has long since past. Satan has unleashed the final assault on Jesus Himself with a parade of spurious and blasphemous attempts to change the Son of God into just another man. Conspiracy theories, literature techniques, and every bizarre narrative that contradicts the plain teaching of Scripture is now offered in documentaries, television shows, book stores, and any other place that will allow it to be spread. I believe the most subtle and vicious are still to come, and they come empowered by the spirit of anti-christ and appeal to the flesh.
The depth of their deception is multi-faceted, and we must as believers not allow the enemy of our souls to capture us at his game. The devil is so crafty that he has many designs combined into all of his evil strategies. For instance, the "Da Vinci Codes" are obviously evil and erroneous and any surface student of God's Word can easily see the deception and falsehoods claimed in its pages, but Lucifer will allow us to delight in our disproving of its assertion while deceiving us about our own Spiritual shortcomings. God wants us to use these attacks to springboard into a greater awakening among the followers of Jesus that the end is near and we need to "break up the fallow ground" and "press toward he mark". It IS the last times and the time for lukewarmness must end. I don't believe the Lord is just satisfied with chest pumping self-righteousness as we counter these attacks, no, He desires a refreshed and revived Bride that finds new sacrificial anointing to pray, read, live, repent, and preach the saving message of Jesus Himself to the entire earth.
Look what the world, and in large part the church, is doing to Jesus, and on our watch! Remember this sobering thought. If the church does go through the times of Jacob's trouble, the tribulation period, will we bring honor and glory to the Savior or will we also be compromised by the coming deception? The Father gave us some outward signs that are obvious today to signal His coming. Wars, disease, hatred, famine, sin, and a host of other issues graciously point us to His coming. Any day a group could detonate a nuclear device and plunge the nations into chaos and fear, but that is only the "seen" scenario. The ETERNAL destination of billions of souls precariously hang in the balance right now, and we go through some of the motions in an attempt to do God's will, but we are far from being "on fire" for God especially in the light of His coming.
The next time you see or hear about another attack from the world and the powers of darkness on Jesus, let's not just be content with responding. No, let us humble ourselves and pray that the mighty Holy Spirit of God will baptize us with a fresh and powerful wind of His boldness and sacrifice. The prophetic classes, charts, timetables, dispensations, and all the other apocalyptic interests that we have enjoyed over hundreds of years are now upon us. We generally know what will happen, but what does the Lord require of us? To just audit the class is to fail. We do not just respond to the world's challenges, we respond to the Spirit of God. When Goliath issued his challenge to the armies of God, who gave him the right to lay down those rules? No one. And yet the children of Israel cringed in fear because they could find no one equal to Goliath's stature. But God didn't lay down those guidelines, and God's people could have sought God's face on the matter. As it turned out God's grace through David won the victory. So when the devil parades one lie after another in these coming days, let us not just respond to his agenda, no, let us humble ourselves and pray, seeking the "light of the glory of God which is in the face of Jesus",
The King's horse is being readied, and the armies of heaven are bristling with anticipation. The celestial air is electric with the sense that we are coming to the marriage feast of the Lamb. Everything the Father has taught us, both plainly and with all the earthly symbolic tools, is about to be revealed. Awake, awake, thou that sleepest...shake thyself from the dust! Eternity beckons, and the mouth of hell itself widens in preparation to receive billions. It can never be melodramatic or overstated. Any attempt to exaggerate pales in the face of the reality of the coming events. And as Lucifer unashamedly steps up his assault, the church continues to play the harlot with the temporal things of this world. Changing the gospel into a streamlined sales strategy with no warning, no repentance, no sacrifice, no cross, and a Je$u$ that more closely resembles Donald Trump than the Lamb that was Slain. And millions of western believers go to weekly services to hear messages about money, health, careers, sex, and a plethora of "How to Win Friends and Influence People" advice. And we like it like that. And people like me point out the obvious but are also in need of a searing revival that changes me in direct proportion to the things God has shown me.
I pray that, like Samson, God will empower us just one more time before He comes again. Gird up your loins and prepare for battle, the battle that now rages. This war covers the world and touches every corner of the church world. Not just the Purpose message, not just the Seeker crowd, not just the Emergent church, no, the war is on your doorstep and mine. To some of us this deceptive warfare comes as pride, or money, or just a spirit of contentment with where we are Spiritually.
Jesus deserves so much more than we are giving Him! He deserves it ALL!!
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my name is fadeke from nigeria, you can not be more accurate!yet ifeel there is no way the church can really trully wake up except the time of tribulation come. American preachers have use their money to influence all the world more negatively than positively, its my prayer that as many pple that has been destined to make heaven will not miss it.thanks a million for your exposition
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