The Devotional - A Look at the Book #754

by Jesse Abel

Psalm 19:14 – When if ever have you asked the LORD to accept your words of meditation? Most people meditate, but few ask God to accept their words. Some ask the dead religious icons of the past, these popular dead people are not God; they do not have a voice, nor can they hear so why should you be dumber than a created stone? Luke 19:28-40

Good Morning

I have been touching on this from time to time in these devotionals and it is comforting to see recent articles in Israel My Glory (a semi-monthly periodical) agreeing that the Church in the United States of America is caving in. Replacing the doctrinal pillars of faith like; The Virgin Birth, Inerrancy of Scripture, The Physical Death and Bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ with doctrines of abandonment of foundational truth, otherwise known as apostasy.

What does apostasy look like today; some pastors and teachers who are called of God to preach and teach have errored by mixing Darwinian evolution into their interpretation of Genesis 1 by agreeing with the dogmatic claims of scientists that it took millions of years for creation to happen. This position has caused many young people to depart from faith in God. These young people conclude that if one cannot believe in God’s literal account of creation, then why should they believe the rest of the doctrines.

Another form of deception impacting churches today is churches that are “market driven” contemporary theology is pointed in this direction. The truth of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is preached but the truth that one must be “born again” is left out. Thus these churches are not interested in the salvation of the “who so ever will” but everyone is marketed for praise and worship and loving God from an unconverted heart.

This is based on the belief that only the elect will be saved and that there will be no real translation (rapture) of the saints in this dispensational time, but that the elect will muster up the goodness of the world and make the world acceptable for the Second Coming of Christ. This approach reforms the use of biblical truth by applying or mixing the world’s wisdom to doctrinal truth instead of the utilizing the weapons of biblical truth in the war for the soul of mankind. (2 Corinthians 10:4-5).

I do not claim to have the answer to this growing problem in Christendom here in the United States of America, but this one thing I do know; the pace of irreligious people today exceeds the pace of religion and God dislikes religion. Matthew 23:13-24. We need to stop this religious cleansing the outside of the temple while maintaining a heart that is full of extortion and unrighteousness. Are these signs of the end times visible in our day; Matthew 24:1-51? The answer is YES!