“When I Return, Will I find Faith?”

 

The world is changing. The obscene, the pluralistic, and demonic is growing. What jave neen norms like male and female are challenged as antiquated, while radical procedures to transform children’s genders is used despite the warnings that supression of estrogen or testosterone have unforeseen  health consequences. 

Babelyon is here. Everything pagan, demonic, luscivious, and antichrist is touted, while the church recedes into the backgroynd after centuries of steeples that rose over towns, decades of stores that sold Bibles, and what once was chapels only for Christians is now for all faiths with all embelms of the faith removed. 

I stepped into a chapel in a hospital recently and its stain glass was landscape and basins in fromt for rocks of prayer for all faiths. Only half a decade ago, when I entered a chapel it had an altar cross and Bibles.  In the UK and US Christianity is in decline, with pagan religions becoming popular or Noneism (no affiliation). 

The reality is that Jesus our Lord warned us of these times, “I tell you, he will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man returns, how many will he find on the earth who have faith?”” (Luke 18:8), “You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved,” (Matthew 10:22), “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.” (Matthew 24:9), and “If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.” (John 15:18-19, 21).  These prognostications by the Prince of Peace tear apart the Preterist lie that the whole world will be Christian by the time Christ returns. Rather it is more likely we will be minority being threatened with censorship and persecution. The belief we will suddenly have a great revival that will restore Christendom is naive. 

More than ever we must stand firm as evil seeks to break the faithful. We must remember these times were foretold by our Savior and his apostles under the auspices of the Holy Spirit. That we can have courage because we were forwarned. Amen.