We’re living near the end of the last church age - the Laodicean Age where Jesus is outside the church knocking for them to let him in.
Around 1900, something happened that had not ever been seen since Noah’s flood - the world (apparently following the Laodicean Church), turned from trusting in God and said basically, “Thanks God, we’ll take it form here.”
What we see today is a product of this mass turning from trusting in God and the inevitable result of trusting in man which carries a curse (Jer. 17:5-8). The answer of course is to turn away from trusting in man and turn back to trusting in the Lord.
“Thanks God, we’ll take it form here.”
Your timetable is off. It started with the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Charles Darwin finished it all off when he plagiarized (from Alfred Wallace) and published his work on evolution which is now discarded, but, unfortunately, his conclusions and all the huge ramifications thereof were not discarded. That one work has caused hundreds of millions to reject God and Christianity.
2 Thessalonians 2
1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,
2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The Laodicean church.
Prosperity has done us in. Very few people have the spiritual maturity to handle earthly wealth appropriately.
That and turning a blind eye towards sin. The main focus of the church has been the forgiveness of sin but no required repentance of it. People go to church without asking for forgiveness because they think there’s nothing wrong with them and Jesus forgives..etc…. Apathy towards sin increases to the point where see it now, anything goes. Gay marriage, pornography, sex outside marriage entitlement, other lusts…