It’s coming for all of us. Only a matter of time before the haters begin enforcing laws against Jesus here.
Actually, the Lord told us it would happen.
This is arguably, if not certainly, the turning away, the apostasy that we are seeing. That it looks like Romans 1:18-32 is going on around us is probably because it literally is. That “dying canary in a coal mine” is a sign.
But that is not a cause to become discouraged, and not just because it says that when we see these things we should be looking up. Rather there is always a remnant. Yes, Jesus wondered if He would find faith when He returned but that doesn’t mean that He’ll find no faith, only that it will be embattled and besieged as remnants tend to be.
Using a metaphor: the Lord doesn’t use anti-cling sheets in His laundry and we can in very real spiritual terms cling to the Lord knowing we are in His hands, who can take us out?
But compromising the truth isn’t clinging.
Earlier today on another forum one fellow posted his typical screed about how the creation of the State of Israel ruined relations between Christians and Muslims and I just didn’t respond because why bother? I mean, WHAT good relations in 14 centuries of ceaseless aggression where peace was just Muslims rearming for a new push somewhere ... unless it is good relations with Islam on Islam’s terms!
The world is the same, literally the exact same, it wants Christians to be on good terms with it on the world’s terms. That’s why we compromise, not the world, or else there will be trouble.
Well, if “clinging” means preferring the trouble then that’s what it will take.
And, to be blunt, our heavenly Father can beat up their spiritual daddy.