02/10/26 DECEPTION, THE SIGN OF THE TIMES

02/10/26 DECEPTION, THE SIGN OF THE TIMES

DECEPTION... The most significant sign of the end times.

It is everywhere, in everything, all the time. It is in politics, it is in entertainment, it is in academics, it is in government, it is in economics, it is in news reporting, it is in religion, it is in "science," IT IS IN THE LAODICEAN CHURCH, and it is in the supposed Bible-believing community (preachers, teachers, singers, authors, denominations, and leading doctrinal camps.

I remember when a major part of Western society realized that the Bible, Christianity, salvation, believers, Christian principles, Christian culture, Christian beliefs, and Christian behavior were respected, even by the non-Christian part of the population. Deference was given to prayer, Christian morality, the Holy Bible, the church, and God. This respect was seen in law enforcement, jurisprudence, journalism, popular music, musicians, singers, athletes, entertainers, the movie industry, government practices, education, and social structures.

Through the years, I have watched as disrespect and blasphemy have become the standard rather than the unusual response to Christianity. We have moved from Christian standards being the foundation of our society to it being the whipping boy and target of disdain.

There was a time when the standards of Christian behavior were the standards of public behavior. Even in our fallen world, our sinful society, people understood that there was a line between right and wrong, good and evil, truth and deceit. Not that all people lived by a higher moral standard, but generally society acknowledged the acceptable and shunned the unacceptable. The population at large, and even Hollywood, Broadway, Nashville, Las Vegas, knew that drugging of all kinds (smoking, shooting, sniffing, swigging) and perversion, prurient language, profanity, adultery, lying, stealing, killing, cheating, infidelity, divorce was deviant, subnormal, anti-social; they understood that it was not Christian and was not acceptable in "decent society."

Little by little, society moved further from God, His standards, His commands, His will, until we are approaching a time like the Days of Noah. Now we see people who call themselves Christian scoffing, mocking Divine truth, godly living, public decency, sexual mores, social graces, marital sanctity, and common sense.

We got here because people turned further from God and embraced a sick worldview. People either believe the most perverse, insane ideas ever conceived in the mind of Satan, or they claim to be Christian, while aligning with groups or beliefs that are totally sold out to darkness.

I have much more to say, but I think you get my drift.

God is calling His people to come out from the world, to be delivered from the world, to be set apart from the world. He is calling His people to be holy, pure, and righteous, while Satan's emissaries of destruction are claiming that God's salvation does not save us from sin. You cannot align with Satan's platform and be a Christian.