Good for you. Be careful, there are wolves out there....
Yes Satan and his minions are growing in strength and numbers and has gone into hiring a 3rd shift...No doubt about it!
And licensed collar-wearing apostate dogs from within, serving poisoned bait:
Paul's final address to the Ephesian church leaders:
Act 20:28-31 (AV, my emphatic underlining, superscripted added text):
"Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.Paul's warning to his dear Philippian church:
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
Php 3:16-19 (AV, my emphatic underlining)
Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.All this error is particularlydamaging when embedded in the underlying platform of a whole minister-priest dominated sect. But all this has been present from the beginning of the church age, now almost as bad as when catholicism quenched the congregational assemblies and overran the Western world before Columbus. Its progeny is not greatly different, as it has now turned out, "reformation" or not.
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shameful doings, who mind earthly things.)