January 20, 2013

  • Postscript: Christ's Prophecy of Apostasy

    Have you wondered why I posted those four long lectures about the seven epistles which Christ commanded John to write to seven churches?  My reason is summed up in other words attributed to Jesus Christ in Matthew chapter seven, the most chilling and frightening words in all of scripture.  He said:

    21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’"

    I have come to understand that one of two fates awaits those of us who profess to trust and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and who are still alive on the rapidly approaching day Jesus returns to the earth for His church.  Either we will be found by Him to be worthy to escape the trials of the tribulation time and will be snatched out of this life, instantly transformed, raptured off the earth; or we shall be left behind to undergo those horrific trials which shall test the souls of mankind in that day.

    I believe that the devil has to a great extent successfully infiltrated and wreaked havoc and confusion in the church of Jesus Christ during the twenty centuries since the resurrected Jesus was taken up into the heavens and His Holy Spirit was sent to us in His stead.  Some who profess to know Jesus as Lord and Savior simply do not.  And sadly, many of those are deceived, and actually believe themselves safely in a relationship with Jesus although they are not.

    Fact is, some have received the Spirit of Christ and He now dwells within them and directs them; but others have only a mental awareness of Christ and believe it to be enough.  And it is these latter souls for whom I feel so troubled, and whom I desire so deeply to warn: Examine yourselves whether or not you be truly in Christ Jesus.