The apostasy of the last days is spreading like fire. It is CLEARLY described in the NT and yet Christians are rushing to it like lemmings. I have to assume they never read their bibles.
These ‘christians’ are worshipping the idol of ‘nice’. They want to be nice. They want to be sweet. (They want to be liked). They have been told for decades that we can lead people to Christ by being nice and sweet.
But it doesn’t work. We are called to be salt. While the church has been nice, the world has been going to hell and cultures are rotting.
Jesus called us to be confrontational. To speak the truth, in love, but clearly and boldly. To set the bar of individual and societal behavior high and clearly speak to personal repentance and salvation.
These ‘pastors’ are on the thinnest of ice.
I am not one to put stock in “prophesy” as foretelling discrete events because every age finds the words of the bible to refer to their own time. That said. the Apostasy is real, yet again. There have been periods in the past wherein Apostasy was widespread and spreading rapidly. I have read several large volumes of history of Christianity, of Nestorians and of Western Christians, Catholic history and Christian history written by Protest and scholars and all attest that Apostasy is a recurring phenomenon. The modern day is significant in that the scope is much larger and the apostasy is spreading rapidly in what appears to us to be the last major bastion of Christianity. But for God the relative prominence of a society among men and nations is not relevant. America may well go down. I believe it has already lost its foundation and is supported on nothing but reputation in the world. The Remnant is there, though, in Africa and in China. China bids fair to be the rising Bastion of Christianity and in subSaharan Africa Christianity is advancing in the struggle with Islam.
And we all know what salt in wounds can feel like.