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Thank you for your response "Interested"; The climate we see the world at present, I believe are the signs The Lord spoke of concerning his eminent return.

Whatever your present thoughts, shaped by a lifetime of events and reactions to those events both religious and otherwise, you cannot deny the world at present is on an exponential curve just as the Lord and His Prophets prophesied would be.

The whole earth which is a living organism and includes us humans, are feeling the effects of a new birth. We are in the birth pangs of ever increasing frequency and intensity.

My hope is for all to realize these signs and look deep within themselves and ask a simple question: Am I ready to face God? How would you know with certainty?

Man has always tried to do things his way, disregarding God's Word to him. They either willingly or ignorantly follow broad-way instead of His Way.

Apostasy / Adam and Eve

Eve fell because she disobeyed God willingly, Adam on the other hand by ignorance through unbelief. He did not take God's Word as to what would become of them by putting God to the test. And that's what men do, they put God to the test at their own peril.

Lesson: Apostasy is disobedience to God's Word

Apostasy / Cain

The two Offerings for Sacrifice were distinguished between Cains offering and Abels offering. Cain knew the type Sacrifice that the Lord would accept, but he rebelled against that admonition, demanding that God accept the labor of his hands, which in fact God could not accept. So we have, in the persons of Cain and Abel, the first examples of a religious man of the world and a genuine man of Faith. The rest of story you know, he, Cain murdered his brother Abel who's Sacrifice was accepted by God.

Why was Cains Sacrifice not accepted by God?

Cain gave a Sacrifice Without Blood!

"Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous" 1 John 3:12

"sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire.." Genesis 4:7

Cain was given a reprobate heart! And often times a murderous spirit accompanies those who do not follow God's but instead their own form of worship. Sounds familiar?

Lesson: Apostasy is Falling Away from God's Prescribed Way of Worship!

Apostasy / Brought the Flood

Genesis 6:5 "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually"
Genesis 6:6 "And it repented the Lord that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart,"
Genesis 6:7 "And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth..."
Genesis 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Genesis 6:9 ...Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:17 ...I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the whole earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life...and everything...shall die."
Hebrews 11:7 "By Faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of righteousness which is by faith"

The rest of the world was living by the imaginations of their own hearts! and they perished!

Lesson: Apostasy is man living by the imaginations of his own heart!

Apostasy / Twisting the Scriptures for False Beliefs

Warnings from the New Testament

2 Peter 3:15 "...Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you."
2 Peter 3:16 "As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction."
2 Peter 3:17 "Ye therefore, beloved seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness."
God begins a fresh start with Noah and his Seed
- Genesis 10:9 Tells us about a mighty man on the earth name Nimrod.
- Genesis 10:10 "And the beginning of his Kingdom is Babel..."
- Mankind became corrupted again and built the tower of Babel.
- Many scholars believe that this was the beginning of idolatry and the beginning of mother and child worship.
Now you have to ask why mother and child worship?
After the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden, God spoke to Satan and said:
- Genesis 3:15 "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
God promised that a seed would come from the woman whose child would be a deliverer!

A False Seed Deliverer Arises!
- According to history, Nimrod died, and was believed to have been reincarnated as the son of his wife. Nimrod was then worshipped as the promised seed deliverer.
- This false seed deliverer was given the name Baal in the land of Canaan. The title Baal meaning husband, lord, and master. (New Catholic Encyclopedia 2nd edition)
- Genesis 11:4 "And they said, go to , let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach heaven...
- Genesis 11:5 "And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded."
This WAS NOT God's building program!
This was Babylon's first attempt to have a one world religion with one world ruler without God! "Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it...Psalms 127:1
- Genesis 11:6 "And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language;...and now nothing will be restrained from them..."
- Genesis 11:7 "Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language..."
- Genesis 11:8 "So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city."
Twisting scriptures brought corruption! False Beliefs! God's Judgment brought confusion, and dispersion.
Man was dispersed all over the world speaking different languages, but taking this godless religion with them.
Lesson: Apostasy is Twisting the Scriptures for False Beliefs

God begins a fresh start with Abraham and his Seed.
God established his Covenant with Abraham. This Covenant continued with Isaac, a type of Christ; by miraculous birth, and by being raised up from the dead in figure through sacrifice. The seed unbroken, birthed Jacob whom God renamed Israel. From Israel, centuries later came Jesus, the promised seed deliverer of Genesis 3:15
Now listen to this...
- For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness." Romans 4:2-3
- Genesis 26:4 "And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven"
- Romans 4:4-5 "Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness
- "By Faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up his only begotten son" Hebrews 11:17
- A ram was killed instead
- "Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in figure." Hebrews 11:18-19
  
  Under the Old Covenant the Jews Compromised with Baal!
  There is a king of the Old Testament who was perhaps the greatest of God's heroes according to God's Word, even greater than King David! Most Christians today don't even know who he was, and he receives little or no recognition in todays pulpits.
  He instituted the Passover as no other king did. He was also known for putting away the worship of Baal and Baal Priest as no other king did. He was known for cleansing God's people and their land as no other king.
  Look what God's Word says about King Josiah in (2 Kings Chapter 23, verse 25.)
  - "And like unto him was there no other king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
  This was one of the most radical men of the Old Testament. He had two major goals. The first was to restore God's people back to God. His second goal was to rid the land of Idolatry, which included getting rid of every trace of Baal!
  
  King Josiah went from border to border of the land and oversaw with his own eyes the wiping away of all Idolatry including Baal. He utterly destroyed all the high places. He personally watched it till it was done!
2 Kings 23:24 "...the images, and the idols, and all the abominations...in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book...the priest found in the house of the Lord."
Spiritual Fornication Brought the Moral Corruption of the Land!
King Josiah knew what most Christian leaders have not a clue today. The reason for our moral decline in America is a result of spiritual fornication
They are like the people in Elijah's day who didn't want to talk about it, or do anything about the issue of spiritual fornication! They the true reason why we have entered into a "Post Modern World". They just want to stick their heads in the sand and hope the issue will go away! They are true compromisers.
Many Prophets of the Old Testament were severely persecuted and died for exposing Baal, especially by their leaders, the kings who compromised with Baal. Elijah was a prophet who had a showdown with the prophets of Baal and God's people.
- And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow Him; but if Baal follow him. And the people answered him not a word." 1 Kings 18:21
- The prophets were hated because they rebuked the people for worshiping Baal!
- Like Cain, God rejects the sacrifice and the one who offers it, if it isn't God's Way
- But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved unto myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal, Even so at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace." Romans 11:4-5
- For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee" Romans 4:21
The Apostle Paul in Romans Chapter 11, uses the teaching of Baal to explain Israel's fall! He warns us with this teaching to take heed also!
Not only did the Apostle Paul warn us about Baal, but Jesus warns the churches about Baal! (Revelation 2:13-16,20-24)
I chose not to name denominations or sects etc., with exception of the Jews. After all this is where all God's lessons manifested, and they are God's Chosen, still are to this day. That will never change. Apostasy is in ALL religions, some more, some less, some very evident. You might see some in yours. If anything was added or taken away, yours could be in trouble.
In closing I would want to state that we all must come to a conclusion in discerning what God is saying through His Revealed Word. I have given you a few illustrations I hope would invigorate your appetite for more. Examine your hearts and what you have accepted as Truths. If it doesn't hold up to The Word of God, then you must question as to why and for what reason.
I belong to Jesus Christ, thats my Church. I am His. God Bless