The Days of Lot (United states and spreading) 21st Century Bible Reading

And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business--eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building, until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

Luke 17:28,29


Christ's prophecy of the end times are now here. These are no longer speculations ,but the realities we are now living in the United States and many other countries throughout the world. In this article we will look at how the days of Lot are but with a modern twist.

Genesis 13. Christians settling in the Valleys of the world's ways

 Christians settled among the cities of the valley and moved their tents as far as Sodom.


Tents  :Christians trying as hard as possible to be just like the world in their teachings, fashions, and ways

Now the men of the United States were wicked, great sinners against the LORD.


Genesis 18. Outcry Against the United States and others

And the LORD said, Shall I hide from the True Christians  that thing which I do;

20Then the LORD said, "The outcry against the United States and many other countries is immense, and their sin is extremely serious. I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."



Ezekiel 16.The Iniquity of the United States and others

Behold, this is the iniquity of thy sister United States, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness is in her and in her daughters, neither does she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy
And they are haughty, and are committing abominations before me: therefore I am going to take them away as I see good. Ezekiel 16:49,50


Genesis 19. House of God's servants Surrounded

Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of the United States, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

From every quarter:  activist judges passing laws promoting perversions and suing Christians for refusing to participate .
Education systems being vehemently anti God and pro immorality and false philosophies  such as evolution.
Liberal churches denying the Word of God by trying to be like the world
Politicians flipping sides to accommodate immoral behaviors in order to gain votes

But the Christians went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind them and said, "Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.

Get out of our way," they replied. "This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We'll treat you worse than them." They kept bringing pressure on Christians and moved forward to break down the door.

Name calling to suppress the truth Intolerant, self righteous, Pharisee, Bigot, Homophobe, Better than thou.
Pressure  being applied on the  true Christians in order  to break the door of moral restraint  and the knowledge of God in the Land.

Isaiah 3:9. United States Parading Sin


The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves. Isaiah 3:9


Jude 1:7. Imminent Judgment

And don't forget Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which were filled with immorality and every kind of sexual perversion. Those cities were destroyed by fire and serve as a warning of the eternal fire of God's judgment.


Beloved when you start seeing a nation behaving like Sodom then you know that the days of Lot are here. The Lord will pay that nation a visit to see if they have done according to the outcry against it. Let us pray God that he may help us , give us the courage to spread the good news so that many may be rescued from the destruction to come.


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Did God really say? Satan's questions to humanity in the 21st century

 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?”

This strategy shows that Satan has not change his ways from his first question to our first parents. He continues asking questions to cast doubts in the Word of God and cause as many as he can to fall just like Adam and Eve did. Here are some of the topics that are in question these day and age.




Marriage

From the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, the two will become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one flesh?
Mark 10:7

Divorce

I hate divorce!" says the LORD, the God of Israel. "To divorce your wife is to overwhelm her with cruelty," says the LORD of Heaven's Armies. "So guard your heart; do not be unfaithful to your wife?"
Malachi 2:16

Homosexuality

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination.
Leviticus 20:13

Atheism

The fool says in his heart, "There is no God."
Psalm 14:1

Creation

For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day.
Exodus 20:11

Sabbath

But the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God.Exodus 20:10

Sabbath in the New earth?

For just as the new heavens and the new earth Which I make will endure before Me," declares the LORD, "So your offspring and your name will endure. 23"And it shall be from new moon to new moon And from sabbath to sabbath, All mankind will come to bow down before Me," says the LORD

Women ordination

I do not let women teach men or have authority over them. Let them listen quietly.1 Timothy 2:12


Ponder on these questions and give the appropriate response to the serpent according to the Word, may God help us all.

Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"Matthew 4:4

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Fallen Christianity : a compromised faith always leads to decline

According to a recent Pew Poll, Christianity is in a state of decline. The article states multiple reasons of why it's happening, but  may I suggest the real reason for the it could be our compromises of the faith. A compromised Christianity always leads to decline. In this article, I will speak about some of those issues.
1 Compromising in order to attract the youth

A lot of churches are compromising their faith in order to keep or attract young people. So in order to do this, we try to introduce a "fun atmosphere" to entertain them. People seem to forget that the main focus of worshiping God is not to entertain the youth but to point them towards God. So churches introduce or accept a lot of worldly things such as baptizing rap music, a genre of music that promotes violence and rebellion by calling it Christian rap. The logic is if we put the name of God in it, it becomes Holy. We then ignore the fact that God does not accept "strange fire".

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. So fire blazed forth from the LORD's presence and burned them up, and they died there before the LORD.Leviticus 16:1,2

The Catholic Church did the same thing in the middle ages by baptizing pagan customs into Christianity. The church became corrupt, its people steep in idolatry, superstitions and delusions. They took the idols of the pagans and gave them Christian names. "There is nothing new under the sun", we keep repeating the same mistakes and thinking that somehow we are different than our ancestors.

Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is what the LORD spoke, saying, 'By those who come near Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the people I will be honored.'" So Aaron, therefore, kept silent. Leveticus 10:3.

God said that people who come before him must know that he is Holy (separated from profane things), and that he will be honored. So when we come before God, the focus should not be on ourselves and how we feel but for honoring Him alone. When we come to that understanding we will stop focusing on entertaining the youth. When the church start making those compromises, instead of converting the world ,they become converted by them. So as we keep trying to win the youth; using strange fire tactics, the youth become more worldly and finally realize "If I'm already listening to rap, why not go into the real thing?" Christians must understand that we cannot use the ways of the world to convert them. The Word of God is all sufficient. 

2 Tickling ears messages in order to make people feel comfortable

Like using baptized paganism to attract the youth , many churches use a similar system in order to bring more people in. Taking away the offences of the Cross. Many churches for fear of not offending sinners do not preach the whole counsel of God. The idea is that we should make the sinner feel comfortable in church so that he/she does not feel they are being attacked. The result is we have a message being preached around that is no more than psychology or self-help masquerading as Christianity.

They tell the seers, "Stop seeing visions!" They tell the prophets, "Don't tell us what is right. Tell us nice things. Tell us lies. Isaiah 30:10

Imagine going to a hospital being diagnosed with a terminal disease and the doctor is afraid to offend you by telling you the truth, so he goes around telling you feel good messages while you are dying. This is what many churches are doing to people. People come to church to hear a message of salvation from the Lord. Church is a hospital, filled with people sick with  the terminal disease called sin. The goal of the preacher is to preach the whole counsel of God to people so that they may be led to repentance and have Eternal life.

3 Conclusion:Pleasing the Youth and tickling ears messages are leading people away

The Bible say that we should train up the child in the right way, not the child training the adult. Now I am not saying that people whether they are old or not cannot make suggestion to enhance the worship experience, but everything that is done should be done in accordance to God's will and not bringing strange fire before him.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.Proverbs 22:6
Christianity gets its power from the Lord and once we turn our back on the Lord, we lose that power. The way we lose that power is not only by rejecting God outright but by adopting worldly or pagan customs, bringing idolatry in the house of God and preaching delusions to people. And when God leaves, the church declines, thus the recent poll is a true reflection of the condition of the church.

Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect . Romans 12:2.   

When people realize that the church is no different than the world they become worldly Christian or abandon the church altogether . When Christianity stood counter to the world in the days of the Roman empire, it grew rapidly because it was not diluted. Why go to church when I can go to a therapist or some other social club that will make me feel loved and comfortable in my condition. Let us not live according to this age of compromise and be lukewarm, stand for God , stand for the truth and expose the works of darkness in the House of God .God Bless.

 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. 16'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. Revelation 3:16


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