A Great Departure from the Faith :: By Sean Gooding

2 Thessalonians 2:1-3

“Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition.”

The apostle Paul also wrote in 1 Timohty 4:1-3, “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.”

He also wrote in 2 Timothy 3:1-4, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.”

I recently saw a short video where the commentator was talking about a recent survey that was done among thousands of churches, and they were asked about the importance of sound doctrine versus being relevant. Only about 2% of the churches out of thousands thought that sound doctrine was important.

My daughter attends a Pentecostal church in New Brunswick, and even they do not associate with another Pentecostal church in town because they deny the Trinity, among other doctrinal issues.

A few years ago, one of the ladies in our church was staying with her daughter in another town. She attended a Baptist church there and was astonished that the Pastor did not use a Bible text, nor did he read from an open Bible and cite a text as he taught. I wanted to make sure that I included a Baptist example as well because it not just the Pentecostals that are in error.

We often hear debates either in person or online about Catholic doctrine, including that Mary was sinless and that she was a perpetual virgin, the doctrine of transubstantiation, and others, which are simply heresy.

In Canada here, there are large Reformed churches that teach Calvinism and never have an invitation. I have spoken to a Pastor of one of those churches myself, and he could not cite the plan of salvation in the Bible. Maybe, just maybe, he was an anomaly. But here is what we know:

God, through the pen of Paul, reminded us time and again that in the last days there would be a great departure from the faith. The Lord’s churches would walk away from the clearly stated and clearly written truths of the scripture for a variety of reasons. One of the reasons is that men and women have their consciences seared, burned like with a hot iron, and they have no feelings. The Word of God has no effect on them anymore. It just bounces off their hearts, and they cannot see the truth.

But notice a little piece that we can often overlook; see 2 Timothy 3:2, ‘disobedient to parents.’ Sadly, a lot of kids who grow up in Christian homes will fall away and depart from the faith because we tolerated a lot of disobedience. We were too gracious and did not hold them to true accountability. This leads them to think that God won’t hold them accountable either. This is a sad situation. I am astonished at how many kids in the Lord’s churches grow up and do not know the truth, or they know it and turn their backs on it.

In 2 Timothy 3:3, we find that one of the great departures will be in the area of ‘natural affection’: men sexually attracted to women and vice versa. I continue to be astonished by how many churches are led by gay, trans, and drag-queen individuals. One leader – I can’t use the term Pastor with a straight face –had his church helping him choose his ‘drag-queen’ name. This is crazy but becoming all too normal.

There are countless ‘teachings’ – again, I cannot use the term sermon – that call into question Jesus’ motives, Jesus’ holiness, and yes, even right out claim that Jesus was wrong. At this point, the idea of a sound, conservative doctrine church is almost weird.

Just a few weeks ago, the leader of a very large and prominent church attended and preached in a very effeminate looking outfit. He is a very tall man, and it simply looked odd and could not be missed. There is a sad trend to make men effeminate, and sadly, that can be projected on Jesus as well.

So, we can see that the departure is in many areas: doctrine, the destruction of the family power structure, the questioning of Jesus’ holiness, the authenticity of the scriptures, the denial of doctrine, the feminization of the Gospel, and downright heresy. We can see that we are either in the last days or running headlong to them with some fervor.

For those of us left who preach the truth, who hold sound doctrine sacred, and hold to the perfection of Jesus and the totality of His sacrifice, the road ahead seems dark; the path we are on seems fraught with many perils and traps. But stay the course, contend, as Jude says, for the faith, and let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus. Soon, our faith will be sight, and our hope will be fulfilled. Our enemies will soon come face to face with the Jesus they hate, and we will come face to face with the Jesus we love and who loves us.

 

A Brief Reprieve :: By The Gospelist

The election of Donald Trump has offered the world a brief reprieve from the malevolence and Godlessness of the left and the evil Globalists.

The U.S. government will no longer throw its power behind every aberrant ideology that comes down the pike.

And force mindless idiocy down our throats at the point of a gun.

For now.

Unfortunately, bringing an end to sin and Godlessness is not within a political figure’s ability to correct.  Trump is a transformative politician, perhaps the best we have ever had, but he has no ability to redirect a wicked and perverse generation.

America stands alone on the world stage when it comes to the freedoms that were the promise of the West.  Almost all the governments of Western nations have fallen to either communism or Islamism, and, if not for President Trump, we would have fallen as well.

This nation is very deep into the judgment of God, and most of us are oblivious to it.  The power of the LGBT in this society is a terrible judgment against us.  The fact that our corrupt Supreme Court has codified ‘gay marriage’ is an even more severe judgment.

And the fact that our children were recently being sexually mutilated for profit, with little resistance, means our society may be beyond redemption.  Due to our lack of faith, God has allowed this nation to degrade itself to the point that it may not be worth saving.

God would have to send us powerful men of God to delay His impending final judgment.  Men who understand how to preach the Gospel properly, calling sinners to repent and be forgiven in the name of Christ, would need to arise for God to delay his judgment against us.

There are way too few of them out there right now.

The left is not going away.  They will continue to stalk and harass society until the faith of the people wanes and they can gain the upper hand and devour us.  They can bide their time for four years because they have very wealthy and powerful people behind them.  Once they regain political power, they will force their will on us with terrible ferocity, and the light of freedom will be snuffed out.

It does not matter how strong our arguments are or how well we are able to disempower these people, they will not be defeated.  The Marxist ‘left’ is a judgment against this society for its lack of faith.

Like Satan, the left are tools of God’s judgment.

If anyone thinks that Gavin Newsom has been politically destroyed and cannot recover, they deeply misunderstand the reprobate mind and its propensity to make self-destructive decisions.

The people of L.A. would elect him again even though his policies, based on the fiction of climate change, facilitated the burning down of their city.

To demonstrate that evil is not deterred by the election of Donald Trump, we need only review what the UN’s ‘International Law Commission’ is doing right now as they patiently wait for their return to power.  They have created a treaty that defines ‘Crimes against Humanity’ as anyone who violates the tenets of social justice.

All they need is a bunch of corrupt governments to legally bind their citizens to this idiocy.

They seem pretty confident that they will soon return to power in America where they can once again suppress the truth in their wickedness.

Once their minions are in power across the globe, they intend to pass new laws to defend the ‘oppressed’ who are always Godless and lawless, even though justice demands that they be oppressed.

As we have learned from watching the Godless Democrats, they can warp any law to elevate the wicked and persecute the faithful.

All they need are ‘the right people’ interpreting it.

The totally new crimes that the UN has decided to punish for the first time in human history are (the interpretation of these laws is in parentheses):

  • Murder (Killing an ‘oppressed’ minority member in self-defense)
  • Extermination (Killing a group of ‘oppressed’ people who have sworn your destruction, even if their population continues to increase)
  • Enslavement (Forcing ‘oppressed’ people within your borders to obey your laws and adopt your customs)
  • Deportation (Removing illegal aliens and criminals who abuse your citizens)
  • Imprisonment (Putting ‘freedom fighters (i.e. terrorists)’ in prison because they are ‘justly’ killing or raping your people)
  • Torture (Attempting to gain information from ‘oppressed’ minorities (torture of non-oppressed minorities is acceptable) who are terrorizing your society to gain information in an effort to stop their terror))
  • Rape and other sex crimes (Emotional rape – such as using the wrong pronouns – of ‘oppressed’ minorities is forbidden. Real sexual abuse of unfavored populations is encouraged.)
  • Persecutions on religious or racial grounds: Every religion is defended (except Christianity), and every ethnicity is sacred (except the Jews).
  • Other inhumane acts: Like sharing the Gospel or calling sinners to repent.

The UN and its owners will soon (in their own little minds) break the chains of God’s law and throw off the fetters of His justice.  In its place they will substitute the sins of homophobia, Islamophobia, climate desecration, and racial ‘justice,’ the violators of which they intend to punish with great ferocity.

These ‘Crimes against Humanity’ will not address the Muslims who rape and torture at will.  They will not be directed at the LGBT who prey on the naive and Godless.

These laws will be directed at Christians and the nation of Israel.

Any time the nation of Israel attempts to defend itself against the demonic Muslims, their leaders and their people will be accused of inhumanity.  We are seeing that even now, so such a projection is an easy call.

As for Christians, we will soon discover that we are a plague upon the world that needs to be eradicated.  The ancient Romans accused us of being haters of humanity, and this accusation is about to repeat itself.

Only the ‘reformed’ Roman Catholic religion, along with the many dead churches that are aligned with it, will be acceptable.  At least for a while.

The UN is going to become the protector of the LGBT ‘community’ and ensure these people are never called to repent.  They are going to bring about the ‘Days of Lot’ so they can put God in his place.

They are going to pass laws to ensure that the agenda of the LGBT (or any of its tentacles) is no longer restricted or even criticized in any way.  The ironic thing is that the only people targeting, impacting, and harming homosexuals are Muslims.

However, Muslims are a protected class, too, so these laws will not affect them.

They can toss homosexuals off the roof to their hearts’ content.

The UN could care less about homosexuals (or Muslims for that matter) or protecting them; they have one target that interests them more than anything else.  That is the elimination of the Gospel and those who proclaim it.

And getting rid of the nation of Israel (because it is an obstacle to their one-world government) is high on their to-do list.

Those who proclaim the Gospel and call homosexuals or Muslims to repent will be said to be violating their civil rights.  They will use ‘Hate crime laws,’ which were designed to terrorize Christians, to suppress the truth by their wickedness.

Like so many of the left’s silly terms, there really is no such thing as a hate crime.

The UN is dominated by reprobates.  They are in complete rebellion against God and have been rendered incapable of making sound decisions.

They hypocritically proclaim that everyone deserves to live free from fear, from violence, and from persecution.  This mantra will be proclaimed daily as they terrorize people of faith, assault us, and violate our civil rights in their effort to shut down the proclamation of the Gospel.

Their goal is to ensure that Christians live in constant fear of violence and persecution.

The UN claims that the threats the LGBT face around the world are threats to international peace and security.  If there were a Godly person in this organization, those who claimed that would be laughed out of the room.

The first target of these reprobates is the continent of Africa.  They seem to be the most resistant to changing their opinion of homosexuality.  Unfortunately, their leaders weakly claim that “this is not their culture” rather than condemning this practice as a violation of God’s moral law.

They are going to lose this argument and their culture if their churches cannot do better than that.

It is important to understand the warped thinking of the left.  They claim that the election of conservatives is a hateful, shameful attack on the LGBT and Trans community.

The fact that our elites have used these people to force their perversions on America is hidden by our corrupt press.  The fact that they are stealing the souls of our kids and warping them into something unrecognizable is resisted by fewer and fewer people.

The UN, or whatever they morph into, is going to be weaponized against us in the very near future.  The provisions of this treaty are set to go into effect in 2029.

My guess is that they will go into effect on January 17th, 2029.

They plan to win the next Presidential election by installing a Democrat into this office.  When this occurs, freedom and the rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution will be relics of the past.

According to an article by Stefano Gennarini, once this treaty is signed, any politician who deliberately “misgenders” someone or advocates for female-only private spaces will be guilty of “gender-based persecution.”

It looks like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Riley Gaines will soon be charged with “Crimes against humanity.”

The author claims that the Vatican is protesting some of the language in this document, but this is just a smoke screen.  The late pope has already announced he is on board with this madness.  And Pope Leo XIV will be, too.

The RCC’s ‘objection’ is so consumed with legalese (as usual), it is nearly impossible to figure out what their real position is.  This is not done in error.

According to Gennarini, the following is what we must look forward to:

  • The loss of freedom of speech and freedom of religion
  • Anyone who opposes gender ideology will become an international criminal, an enemy of humanity.
  • Gender persecution will be defined by these reprobates as denying children cross-sex hormones and surgeries, refusing to perform same-sex weddings, disallowing males in female sports, and the denial of abortion.

If this agenda does not tell you who the real target is, nothing will.

If we get a Democrat in the White House in 2029, this treaty will become law and the world will eventually submit to this wickedness.  The Godless Democrats will have finally achieved what they always wanted: absolute and unquestioned power.

And it is power that they will never again relinquish.

They will hold this power leading up to the rapture and through the Great Tribulation.  The world will be released from their wickedness at the battle of Armageddon when Christ returns to judge the world.

The only thing that we can do to delay this dystopia is proclaim the Gospel and pray for national repentance.

If we are in the period I think we are, repentance is highly unlikely.  We need to start preparing ourselves mentally for persecution.

Thankfully, our suffering should be brief.

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