The hour is so dark that the light of TRUTH is not seen by those whose pride in their ‘fidelity’ to their institution is all they know. You cannot reason such an one to open their spirit to GOD. They are lost to magic thinking: ‘god can do anything, so he does the magic our institution declares to us.’ Such a mind cannot discern truth.
Yet as the darkness grows the light stands out the brighter to those who see it.
Isaiah 9:2 "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined"