Prophecy: “What happens when everything you once believed about God begins to crumble?”
The Prodigal son story perfectly illustrates the condition of our present age. In many respects, culture itself has gone prodigal.
I was a prodigal child for enough years to know what it “feels” like to wash out the conviction of immovable rules. Being prodigal is nothing more than dishonoring authority and the rules they set forth to preserve the infrastructure of protective guidelines. The more lukewarm a prodigal becomes, the more dangerous they become to family & society.
You can't renounce something you never had to start with.
As in the case of the Prodigal son, the story proves the son did not have a trusting relationship with his father. In many respects, it was a one-way relationship. The son was interested in what he could gain from being a rich man's son.
While labeling this syndrome as spoiled rich kids would be easy, this story has a prophetic note. Toward the end of 2020, many leading Christian Research Institutions gathered data on the trending ideology of the Millennial generation hating their parents, taking everything they were worth from their parents, and launching out into the world to become the most corrupt generation of all times. During this historical shift, Millennials began deconstructing their faith by the droves. It became the fastest-growing movement within the church. More alarming, Millennial pastors propagating their deconstruction stories were the lion's share.
The Word is always absolute. Today, the masses have made it relative.
As soon as these pastors and followers got away with stating that the Word of God is not absolute Truth, the church society gradually faded into the cultural signs of the End Times. In this, the suicide rate jumped to the highest percentage in history.
A question found on a trendy website, which encourages Christians to deconstruct their faith, begs for clarity: “What happens when everything you once believed about God begins to crumble?” First, this is a foolish, subjective, and relative question. It isn't the doctrines of God that are crumbling, but rather the person asking the question who is melting into the progressivism of unbelief. The standard for those who suffer from unbelief is simple; someone must be blamed for their discomfort. And that someone is usually God.
Progressivism and the End Times are like mixing oil and water. It is likened to culture committing suicide. Instead of facing the facts of the End Times, people default to death by disbelief. When that doesn’t work, many commit suicide.
DOUBT IS THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE DECONSTRUCTION OF THE END TIMES.
Doubt precedes suicide.
The Biblical reality is death is needed for an authentic salvation experience – death to self-life. However, because of the sin of stubbornness, the masses switch to the modality of deconstructing their faith or committing suicide.
DOUBT IS A HEALTHY AND NEEDED MODALITY. WITHOUT A DOUBT, SALVATION(S) IS IMPOSSIBLE. WITHOUT SALVATION, THE END TIMES ARE IMPOTENT. GOD USES DOUBT TO SEPARATE A LOST GENERATION FROM THE DEMISE OF A DEMONIC CULTURE AND CHURCH. THE IRONY IS THAT DOUBT USUALLY REFUTES THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH SOURCE, THUS, BLAMING GOD. THE DISPLACED BLAME HINDERS, IF NOT ELIMINATES, THE SOURCE IS PUT IN PLACE TO DELIVER THEM FROM THEIR DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES WHILE OFFERING HOPE FOR A NEW LIFE IN CHRIST. GOD DOES NOT RECONSTRUCT A NEW LIFE IN CHRIST BY AN EXISTING LIFE; HE TERMINATES A LIFE THROUGH CO-CRUCIFIXION WITH HIS SON (ROM. 6:6, GAL. 2:20). THIS ABSOLUTE FACT BECOMES THE GREATEST FIGHT-FOR-LIFE IN A LOST SOUL. REMEMBER, THE MIRACLE OF SALVATION IS IN DYING TO LIVE –ETERNAL LIFE.
All humans are devout in their religious beliefs, even atheists. The question is, "Who is their god?" For self to be God, one must renounce all other gods. Once this is accomplished, the individual can form any god they desire, ultimately fulfilling Satan's goal perpetrated on Adam and Eve - “You will be like God” (Genesis 3:5). Both Adam and Eve became their individualized gods since the sin of self-governance and self-authority was appealing. Hopefully, you can see that the ideology of theological deconstruction is not new. It was the first sin and certainly will be the last as well.
A PROGRESSIVE MIND IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END TIMES.
AN INDEPENDENT MIND IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ELEMENT, DISCOVERING THE TRUTH CONTAINED IN THE END TIMES.
Progressive thinking is not progressive at all; it is regressive. While many believe progressive thinking keeps up with progress, it does not. Progressivism is a political philosophy in support of social reform. The idea that progress is advanced through science, technology, economic development, and social organization is supposedly vital to improving the human condition without God, but rather through science. Universalists aim to demonstrate that societies can better themselves by strengthening empirical self-knowledge and individualized self-as-God as the foundation of a progressive society. This movement replicated the original sin, spreading throughout the world as the dominant philosophical thought for all humanity. Also, historians determined this ideology is the primary venue of depraved minds attempting to fix a doomed world in the End Times.
People need to feel inferior to receive superior.
The absolute doctrines of God's essential reform start by making humanity feel inferior, a lifelong battle that most resist. The entire educational, social, and parental system is based on improving self-esteem. People with strong self-abilities do not rely on the abilities of God. While God works to dismiss humanity’s self-esteem, man proves his ignorance to increase it. This is the epidemy of self-deception.
"For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself." (Gal. 6:3)
Such fading becomes the church's greatest enemy in understanding the End Times. All the cultural problems today are centered in and around the fruitless attempts of humanity working to formulate their opinion regarding world events. However, the meat of the Gospel presents a much more challenging dilemma. Here is what the authentic Jesus said:
John 12:24-26 communicates, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal. If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him."
Unless you die to self-opinion, you cannot bear the fruit of understanding the End Times.
Nominal Christians are fake Christians.
Nominal means “existing in name only.” Not life! Satan has duped the church into thinking nominal Christianity is Christianity. I hope the lost will discover these simple facts: First, that nominal is not the norm of God. Secondly, nominal Christianity must be deconstructed, not the absolutes of God's Word or Jesus Christ. And so, I implore all those who are leaving the faith – the faith of nominal Christianity, to reexamine the authentic faith - not through internet opinionates but through reading the non-paraphrased Word of God.
I am told that somewhere between 2022 and 2024 will be when God separates the goats from the sheep - goats being those “believers" who will forsake their faith, hide behind the Grace of God, or use grace as a license to divide.
In Jude 1:4, it says, "For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ."
The action required in this mass exodus is that we believers must be available to help the nominal believers forsake their nominal faith, confirming that their deconstructive efforts are healthy while reexamining the authentic absolute Words of God and the personage of Jesus Christ.
Welcome to the culturally neutral society but be on your guard because the devil is roaming about seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8). The who is all of us!
The Antichrist needs a depraved culture to set up for his depraved Seven-Year Reign.
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When Jesus came the first time, He spoke to a Torah literate “church”, the observant Jews of His day. But now we have a biblically illiterate church of no particular beliefs nor understanding. I think it’s not helpful to demand unconditional belief in the literal Word Of God, as written and in our possession. Why would I say such a horrible thing?
The Bible is perfect as God intended it to be when it came to us. But thousands of years of man’s involvement including innumerable translations have eliminated the literary historical and cultural contexts of the first century writings, not to mention the Old Testament.
Out of the shoot demands for total adherence to the word, as we possess it is going to be a stumbling block. We need to re/establish the narrative. Who is God? Why does He matter? Who is Jesus? Why should anyone care?
The Jewish faith, as has been explained to me, places great value on accuracy and even more on the narrative. Think of Jesus’s parables. Not provably true but infinitely more important than literal truth.
We can’t completely understand God nor His word. We can seek always greater understanding and while so doing, not create an impassable barrier for a biblically illiterate society. It’s up to us.
For some excellent light on "the prodigal son", see "The Cross & the Prodigal by Kenneth E. Bailey. In our day and time, we are missing most of the details of the story.