The New Testament warns repeatedly of coming apostasy and deceivers. This warning is to the Assembly, the Church, the Body of Christ comprised of followers of Jesus who are filled with God's Spirit. The warning is to the true church, NOT to any other group, people, organization, society, government, or culture. Satan is working to destroy the Body of Christ, using his human agents to deceive and cause as many believers as possible to apostatize.
Alas, Satan is very clever. He plots and schemes to exploit
even scriptural truth to distract and otherwise fool us. He sends his false
prophets and faux apostles to warn the Church of the approaching
apostasy, only with a clear twist to it. His lying agents do not want us
to exercise our abilities and discern whether they are false prophets or see
the deception that already is in our midst.
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Instead, the Devil's charlatans and grifters point us to things and persons outside the Church. Instead of rooting out the deceivers who have infiltrated the Church, prophetic pretenders tell us to “beware of the politician, the cultural leader, the non-Christian religious leader, the Woke Ideologist,” etc.!
Rather than actual apostasy or the presence of false prophets in the leadership of the Church, false teachers point to the moral collapse of the surrounding PAGAN society as the fulfillment of the biblical warning about apostasy. This is MISDIRECTION. It is a lie, a trap.
Society may be declining morally but that is NOT
apostasy. A culture under the dominion of sin and Satan cannot depart from a
faith that it NEVER held, and it cannot abandon the true God with Whom
it NEVER walked. The only “Christian nation” on the
Earth is the Kingdom of God, period, end of discussion. All other nations and civilizations are part of the fallen world order that is “passing away.”
The Devil is out to destroy the Church, and it is always most
effective to do so from within with clever lies and distractions. He misleads us
so that we take our eyes off the ball and spend our time on other things -
social reformation, “engaging the culture,” partisan politics, and other forms of “perishing meat.”
No existing nation, culture, political ideology, or form of
government will survive the arrival of Jesus when he gathers all nations for judgment.
They will all perish from the Earth. If you invest your resources in the ways
and institutions of this world rather than His Kingdom, you find yourself
holding a very empty eternal bag on the day when it truly counts.
We are engaged in an existential war, one that is not about
saving democracy, Western Civilization or America, taking over the “seven mountains of culture,” or recovering some supposed societal ideal from the past that never existed in the first place.
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The mission assigned to us by Jesus is to save the world, and ONLY the Church empowered by God's Spirit and preaching his Gospel can accomplish that. His disciple does so when he walks the same cruciform path that Jesus did. It is by our daily taking up the Cross and preaching the same Gospel that he did that we would advance his Kingdom across the Planet.
Those believers who are watching for apostasy and
deception outside the Church will be among the first who are overtaken by false
teachings and apostasy operating within the Body of Christ. Do not be fooled by
the misdirection being peddled by today’s faux prophets, deceitful
apostles, and political activists who have fooled and thereby conquered far too
many believers already with their damnable lies.
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