CHRIST'S RETURN

                                                AM I BRAGGING?

            In this morning’s article called “Springboard” I talked about what our church is doing as it humbly comes before the Lord to cry out to Him for what must be. I also talked about my wanting to know specifically what the leadership of my church has decided in the growing war against Christianity. Are they going to stick with the word of God or are they going to compromise for the sake of global unity?

            In all of this I was not what you might perceive as bragging about my church. What I am talking about is that which must be. We have entered a time unprecedented in human history, for even though men and churches have faced these issues throughout time, we are now coming to the final global government and religion of the Beast that the Bible warns about and large portions of the church are falling away.

            What I am saying is that we can no longer afford to sit back in an easy chair and presume that our church is still the church that it started out to be. For instance, some of the Reformed and Lutheran Churches that were once the foremost and stalwart defenders of the reformation faith, have been foremost in going back to Rome and the Pope’s coming one world religion.

            Likewise many Charismatic groups that once started out as a great move of the Holy Spirit are now abandoning biblical faith and practice in order to fit into the new global religion of the beast. Do you know where your church stands? Do they understand the times in which we now live? Have they come to the same conclusion that we must now fast and pray to prepare for what lies ahead? Are they giving into the politically correct crowd to embrace doctrines of demons or are they sticking with the unadulterated Word of God?

            There is a great shifting going on as people of faith are flushed out of churches they once believed in to seek shelter in a church that is sticking with the Word of God and the Spirit of God… and we know from Bible Prophecy that Satan will soon attempt to shut down every church from which light is still pouring. Persecution is coming to America and strangely enough it will not be from strangers, but from those who have fallen away from the faith. They will become our worst antagonists and the first to condemn us when we stubbornly take our stand against the coming global religion of the Beast.

            Just as the Jews have often been blamed for everything bad; (whether rationally or not,) so the true church of Jesus Christ will be singled out as being responsible for the judgments of God that will soon plague our country.

            Well, I don’t want this to turn into another book, but I want you to understand that I am teaching to principle here. Our particular church is now coming to life with prophetic understanding and so we are praying for that which is needed… that which God is calling His Remnant people to. And so it must be with every church family that aspires to take a stand against Satan’s grand deceptions.

            No, I am not bragging, but I am very happy to know that this church body is taking a firm stand for the Word of God and for the Spirit of God and for unity of the faith within the Body. They do so knowing that there will be hell to pay in the near future, but even as there is a new Dark Age coming, so also there must be a new Reformation… a revival of the Spirit and power of Pentecost.