Bible Prophecy

The Bible clearly warns many churches will "DEPART from the faith" . . .

     "Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you

       concerning our common salvation,

       I found it necessary ("compelled") to write to you

       exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith

       which was once for all delivered to the saints.

       For certain men (and women) have crept in unnoticed, (now church leaders)

       who turn the grace of our God into lewdness . . .

       (who ignore, deny, create doubt, oppose, or refuse to teach all of God’s word in the Bible)

       But I want to remind you, though you once knew this,

       that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,

       who did NOT believe (God's Word)."

       (Jude 1:3-6)   (God's rules and laws have not changed ... they are the same for every generation.)

     "Now the Spirit (of God) expressly says

       that in latter times some (church leaders ... reverends, ministers, rabbis, priests, bishops, popes)

       will DEPART from the faith,

       giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons

       (opposing things the Bible says ... in direct opposition to God's Word)

       speaking lies in hypocrisy,

       having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,

       forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods . . ."

       (1 Timothy 4:1-3) 

     "For the time WILL come   (and we are now there)

       when they   (many men and women who call themselves "Christian")

       will NOT endure sound doctrine.   (What the Bible actually says and teaches ...)

       Instead, to suit their own desires,

       they will gather around them a great number of teachers

       to say what their itching ears WANT to hear.

       (who will only tell people what they want to hear and not what the Bible says)

       They will turn their ears AWAY from the truth

       and turn aside to myths.   (Such as the 'DaVinci Code')

       But you   (believing Christians)

       be watchful in all things,

       endure hardship,   (for many (most) today don't want to hear what the Bible says ...)

       do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry."

       (2 Timothy 4:3-5)

     "BEWARE of false teachers (prophets),

       who come to you in sheep's clothing,  

       (they may seem "caring," attractive, friendly and many will have impressive religious titles)

       but inwardly they are ravenous wolves."   ("Wolves" destroy and devour the "sheep")

       (Matthew 7:15)   (Many spiritual lives will be lost because of false teachings in the churches)

Jesus warns "Lukewarm" Christians and churches who have no real faith, and do not believe, teach, or lovingly (and willingly) submit to God's Word . . .

       Jesus says, "I KNOW your works,

       that you are neither cold nor hot.

       (no real love for or obedience to or faith in God's Word (Jesus Christ) ... John 1:1-2)

       I could wish you were cold or hot.

       So then, BECAUSE you are lukewarm,

       (He is talking to people who call themselves Christians!)

       Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy,

       and have need of nothing’ (having enough money will keep many from knowing God)

       and do not know that you are wretched,

       miserable, poor, blind, and naked . . .

       And he who has an ear let him hear."  (This means this warning is for everybody)

       (Rev 3:15-17, 22)   (Many who call themselves "Christian" won't make it to Heaven)

We will see Churches and Church Leaders call evil "good" and good "evil" . . .

      "Woe to those who call  evil good, and good evil;

        who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;"

        (Isa 5:20)     (Note:  "Woe" is a terrible, terrible curse ...)

And Jesus offers a stark warning to those Christians and Church Leaders  . . .

     "Not everyone who says to Me (Jesus), 'Lord, Lord,'     (calling themselves 'Christian')
       shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven ...
       Many ('most' or 'majority') will say to Me in that Day (of Judgment),
       'Lord, Lord, have we not taught (prophesied) in Your Name,
       cast out demons in Your Name,
       and done many wonders in Your Name?'
       And then (at the judgment),

       I (Jesus) will declare to them
       'I never knew you
       Depart from Me (departing from Heaven and into Hell)
       you who practice lawlessness'"
       (Matthew 7:21-23)

One Example of churches "no longer enduring sound doctrine":  Homosexuality

   "For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven

     against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men . . .

     For even their women exchanged the natural use

     for what is against nature (lesbianism).

     Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman,

     burning in their lust for one another,

     men with men committing what is shameful (homosexuality) . . .

     that those who practice these things are worthy of death (Hell),

     and not only those who do the same

     but ALSO (all those) who APPROVE OF those who practice them!"

     (Romans 1:18, 26, 27, 32)      (The assurance of life in Heaven  ... it's NOT too late!!!)       (Prophecies ... The coming "Rapture")

     (Note:  Other offenses were also included which were not listed here.)

Here, God clearly warns all those who simply tolerate or "approve of " these things with their great "open-mindedness" will be held just as guilty as those who actually do them. 

God's Warning to those who know and teach God's Word . . .

     "When I (God) say to the wicked,

     ‘You shall surely die (in Hell),’

       and you give him no warning,

       nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way,

       to SAVE his life (eternal life in Heaven),

       that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity (sin);

       but his blood I will require at your hand.

     "Yet, if you warn the wicked,

       and he does not turn from his wickedness,

       nor from his wicked way, (repent)

       he shall die in his iniquity (in HELL);

       but you have delivered your soul.

     "Again, when a righteous man

       turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity,

       and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die (in Hell);

       because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin,

       and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered;

       but his blood I will require at your hand.

     "Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man

       that the righteous should not sin, and he does not sin,

       he shall surely live (in Heaven) because he took warning;

       also you will have delivered your soul."

      (Ezekiel 3:18-21)       (The assurance of life in Heaven  ... it's NOT too late!!!)         (Prophecies ... The coming "Rapture")

The Bible warns the coming "Rapture" ... and the "Falling Away" (when churches and church leaders "depart from the faith" and "will no longer endure sound doctrine") ... and the coming "Antichrist" ... and the coming "Apocalypse" and Armageddon  ("the Day of the Lord") are ALL CLOSELY LINKED ...

     will not come unless THE FALLING AWAY comes FIRST ..."  

     (churches turning away from and denying God's Word ... just like we are now seeing!!)

     And the man of sin (the coming Antichrist) is revealed,       (Prophecies ... The coming Antichrist)

     the son of perdition   (another title of the coming Antichrist) 

     who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped,

     (beware ... a terrible and powerful "one-world" (ecumenical) religious system is coming)

     so that he (the coming Antichrist)

     sits as God in the Temple of God,      (a new Jewish Temple WILL be built in Jerusalem)

     showing himself that he is God. 

     (Jesus warns this event triggers the terrible 2nd half (3˝ years = 1260 days) of the Apocalypse)

     Do you not remember that when I was still with you

     I TOLD you these things?"  

     (2 Thessalonians 2:1-10)