I believe, friends, we live in a tragic
day of remedial judgments from God through his
withdrawn presence in our midst and an unleashing
of natural disasters from his hand, which are
only the beginning of the end.
I wouldn't be surprised if California slides into
the ocean by a major earthquake.
I wouldn't be surprised if our nation is
attacked by our enemies.
I wouldn't be surprised if our economy went
into complete collapse, when God is violated in
the land like America has violated him through
grievous sins, and when the institutional church herself
has lost her voice of authority through compromise
of the gospel and conformity to pagan society,
it is only further confirmation that God has
left us to ourselves to sit dazed and
impotent in our spiritual stupor.
We are so far gone spiritually that we
say our church growth, accomplished through human means,
is actually a result of God's smile upon
our bulging campuses.
I believe many churches exist in name only
as they make no difference upon the wicked
community in which they exist, which only grows
more evil every day.
I believe many pastors who were good and
sincere men, but who preach a perverted gospel,
are paving the way for Antichrist to be
accepted by the church with open arms.
In China today, there exist two churches, the
above ground communist run institutional church called the
Three-Self Church, that is not allowed to
preach the true gospel, and then there is
the underground church in China, where the true
followers of the crucified Christ face constant persecution
as they meet secretly at night in barns,
haylofts, and in homes.
I believe a day is fast approaching in
America where hot persecution will come to true
believers in Christ Jesus that to be a
committed Christian in this God-hating society will
mean you are an enemy of the state,
and if you confess Jesus is Lord then
you will face confiscation of your property, prison
time, and even death.
The church is so fast asleep in this
country that it doesn't know how to read
the handwriting on the wall as society as
well as many church members hate the Lordship
of Jesus Christ in his absolute authority.
I believe there are many Christians throughout this
land who got fed up with the spiritual
decay of their denomination and they quit attending
church in a building long ago.
They meet in homes, they have private bible
study with a few hungry hearts that long
for intimacy and reality with Christ Jesus, they
listen to sermons online and are fed there,
and I believe this underground church in America
will only grow stronger as the days grow
darker.
It's obvious to anyone with their eyes open
that God has left us to our own
devices as we have forsaken the living God
of the Bible and replaced him with one
of our own imagination.
I believe America is getting ready to see
a side of God they are quite unprepared
for.
Many have been deceived by a perverted gospel
that has shrunken Jesus down to man's level.
Many live within the doors of a church
and obey not the gospel nor the Christ
of the gospel.
I believe, friends, God is a terrible God
of majesty who will defend his holy name
upon a society that has rejected him.
My Bible says in 2 Thessalonians, when the
Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with
his mighty angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance
on them that know not God and that
obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction
from the presence of the Lord and from
the glory of his power.