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How plainly narcissistic are the many demonically inspired and patently false doctrines flowing from numerous pulpits and media labeled Christian exposed in the illumination of God’s current and escalating judgment in His house! Yet again in history people claiming a connection to God must decide who speaks the truth from Him between the prophets of peace and prosperity that proclaim with zeal, “It’s your season” or those such as me calling for repentance while in real time judgment unfolds among dying churches? Since the Bible shows the immutable God consistently vindicating the prophets of judgment, the decision should be easy, but sin deceives and destroys in all seasons!
Today, megachurches are built on ear itch relief teaching as foretold that falsely has God always graciously blessing and bringing folk into their selfish season of prosperity--who would not want to hear that all of the time if it were so (2 Timothy 4:3-4)? Truly, God is gracious to bless His people sold out to Him and His cause in the Gospel beginning in their souls and despite whatever else they may lack (Philippians 4:10-14; 3 John 1-4); for Christ died on the cross to completely save sinners, impoverished souls with no hope of accessing the riches of spiritual life available in God alone (Matthew 5:3). This truth is true for believers in any nation and economy on earth!
Notwithstanding the deceitful preaching by so many of my male and female contemporaries, I declare as the Lord has commanded: repent, judgment is not for some future time far removed, but is now in progress and intensifying (Ezekiel 12:21-28)! In line with the experience of prophets such as Jeremiah who had to also contend with the contrary message of false prophets and the apostle Paul’s charge to Timothy, I stand knowing what is received as negative has never been popular and certainly is not in today’s “be happy” world (Jeremiah 6:10-15, 8:10-12; 2 Timothy 4:1-2). With the world, in fact, the very mention of the word “sin” is considered negative by many professing Christians.
Indeed, professing American Christians and those in other Western nations at this hour are not the first thinly religious people to so enjoy the pleasures of sin that they find the divine call to repentance and warning of judgment repulsive (Jeremiah 5:10-13, 28:1-17). Ancient Israel was repeatedly called to repentance and warned by her faithful prophets, but chose to ignore, persecute and murder them (Jeremiah 25:1-7, 38:1-6; Matthew 23:29-36). As the Lord Jesus points out in contrast to Israel rejecting Him--the greatest of all prophets, mighty pagan Nineveh repented at the preaching of Jonah (Matthew 12:38-42)! Outwardly religious Israel had the Son of God crucified.
Similarly, Foxe’s Book Of Martyrs details professing Christians and their manmade Christianity the religion have a history on par with Israel on this score. Unregenerate men more devoted to their invented forms and doctrines of Christianity have barbarically and hideously put to death those they considered heretics including the faithful souls God raised up to call them to repentance. Though they presently do not murder physically as a general rule, denominational leaders, pastors, elders and churches that resist God’s call to repentance for whatever motives do so now by maligning, shunning as outcasts and treating with hostile contempt those He sends to them as I am a witness.
Even so, hear now, this summary Word of the Lord from Ezekiel 13 to the sixth century BC “foolish prophets” of Israel that reverberates in application down to the false prophets, prophetesses and teachers of peace and prosperity in this twenty-first century (NKJV). Woe to you! You prophesy out of your own heart; having seen no vision from God, you express what has come from your own spirit in falsehood and futility. He did not send you and you lie on Him that He has spoken to you for the sake of money. The Lord’s hand is against you. Unless you repent, your name will not be written down with the righteous because you have seduced His people with your false messages and teaching of peace and prosperity to enrich yourself.
With your lies you have built a spiritually weak wall for those that follow you. This is a wall that will collapse from the storms of God’s judgment in His house and the world. Being no respecter of persons, the Lord will not spare the women either who have boldly stepped up to claim their right to speak and be heard before and in all authority over the assembly; lying on God to say He called you to do this and making Him a party to confusion and sin (1 Corinthians 14:29-37; 1 Timothy 2:11-14). Together with your male counterparts, it is your season; your season to experience the judgment of the holy God who judges us in accord with our works ostensibly born of faith, love and obedience (Jeremiah 17:9-10; John 14:15; Romans 2:5-11)! Be certain that with dying churches, your foolishness will die also.
There will be no peace in the world during this present, evil milieu except within the faithful Christian (Isaiah 26:3-4; John 14:27, 16:33); the Western economic system that made material prosperity possible, drawing to its inevitable end as well (Isaiah 24:1-13; Matthew 10:34-39, 24:7; Revelation 6:5-6). Not until the Lord, the Prince of Peace returns will there be thorough and lasting global peace and prosperity (Isaiah 9:6-7, 11:1-9)! Greatly blessed are the gray headed that largely fill the relative few faithful Western churches that remain. They now depart home in peace and the prosperity of their souls; removed from the troubles ahead (Psalm 116:15; Isaiah 26:20-21, 57:1-2). Let the younger faithful prepare by coming to the way of the aspiring strong man and great woman of God in the image of our Lord Jesus Christ and the soon coming revival fire of the Holy Spirit!
Before having you read the short tribute of praise to God in this 2012 blog repost, He has sanctioned my brief and appropriate lamentation in advance for the local churches of history from the 1st century until the destruction of great Babylon. It is appropriate for the faithful to lament now, since upon our departure to Heaven (Hebrews 12:18-24) and in the resurrection to immortal glory to follow we will no longer lament or weep over what we will not remember from this present mortal age (Isaiah 65:17; Revelation 21:4). Of course, many tears of bewilderment and loss are already being shed in various parts of the world for re-tasked, empty and destroyed buildings where professing Christians can no longer assemble; many more tears are still to come.
With understanding and our hearts properly set on God’s eternal big picture, however, let the faithful of God join me in this purposeful lamentation for the coming end of the overt local churches and this mortal epoch of the Church on earth. For we know Christ did not suffer to save temporal buildings, but the souls that become the spiritual construction material for the glorious eternal Church He builds (1 Peter 2:1-10)! Let professing Christians bound anchor and chain to this present age hear this lament as a sign and yet another prophetic warning from the Lord to get your priorities straight in all repentance (Romans 2:4)! The prophet Jeremiah’s Lamentations 1-2 and Revelation 18:21-23 serve as the Scriptural backdrop and Holy Spirit fired inspiration for my lament.
How lonely sit the churches that were once filled with people! The re-tasked, empty or destroyed buildings that once hosted the weekly parade of men, women, boys and girls into its rooms, now, only offering a kaleidoscope of bittersweet memories to them as they pass by seeking for hidden refuge elsewhere. No more ringing church bells or families dressed in their Sunday best filling seats to hear prayers, sermons, hymns and songs; the silenced voices of deacons, preachers, choirs, soloists and musicians a mere echo in the swift moving memories. No more babies crying or children rustling restlessly during the service. No more baptisms, communions, weddings, dedications or funerals.
The picnics, potlucks and fellowship meals are no more; the polite banter of adults and laughter of children at play are no longer heard. Endless meetings where members in the pride of the flesh sought to wrangle for their way have ceased; labor and activities devoid of the Spirit’s leading and power halted. The distinctive qualities which made every church formed among the ethnicities unique are no longer exhibited; the world famous emotional shouts of ecstasy, dancing and testimonies in the churches of my own black American people: gone. Re-tasked, empty or destroyed buildings certainly display the fruit of satanic hatred; the displeasure of God on the evil done in His house--no more an offense to His holiness and the shed blood of Christ (Hebrews 10:26-31)!
Originally Posted July 8, 2012
As a short postscript to my July 1st blog, Death Of A Church--One Year Later, under the category, “Glory To God!”, I offer up my praise and worship to God Almighty for the amazing work done to save souls in the multiplied millions to this hour in spite of the intense opposition of the powers of darkness as well as the failures of many professing Christians and local churches. Indeed, how awesome; how great is the triune God who has suffered long, is patient and persevering in the divine cause to redeem men from the day Adam fell through these nearly two thousand years since the Son of God was crucified because of our sins, buried and raised for our justification (Romans 4:25)!
What many even faithful Christians fail to appreciate about this so-called “church age” is that the local church was never intended to be a permanent fixture on earth. Local assemblies of mortal believers have come and gone as the Spirit of God moves throughout the earth pressing the cause of saving individuals through the preaching of the Gospel in power (Acts 1:8)! To that end, God never needed us, but dispatches His eager sons redeemed by faith in the cause (Romans 10:14-15). Truly, the everlasting Gospel will be preached one final time to the whole world by an angel not churches (Revelation 14:6-7)!
Therefore, I praise the Lord God Almighty for His steadfast work of saving sinful men like me around much satanic opposition and many obstacles of fallen men in building His eternal Church of the redeemed (Matthew 16:13-18; Revelation 5:8-14, 19:1-10). To God be the glory!
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