....”Scripture is not complimentary about those who seek after signs”....
Well that’s putting it softly Metmom, I’m afraid I wouldn’t have said that so kindly. Of course you picked it up in your next paragraph ;)
I do think ‘this’ generation is in a whole heap of trouble....deception is ruling many and easily accepted where only a few years ago it would not have been so easily taken in. Most are so easily swayed because they have no foundation of faith except in that which is ‘in’ the world.
It’s written ....False Christs and false Prophets will arise and perform ‘great’ signs and wonders, so as to lead astray,.... if possible, even the elect.
We see much of that today. And we know the Anti-Christ will do likewise. So what we see today in this generation is the “softening-up of the masses” for the ultimate deception.
Well, yeah.
After all, there is that miraculous healing of the sword wound of the anti-Christ.
With a generation primed to accept any healing of any kind as being from God, they will of course believe that the healing of the anti-Christ is from God and will willingly follow a man who performs that kind of *miracle*.
I never saw it so clearly before, but the situation in which we find ourselves today is just one more indicator that we are in the end times and that this generation is being primed by the enemy for the great deception.
Then you'd get tossed into that darned ELSIE category: Folks who play smashmouth basketball if blowing in the ear doesn't work.