Something is happening to Christianity that is unsettling. Churches and even entire denominations are watering down the Gospel, compromising the Word, approving of immorality, and incorporating other religions into our faith. The Presbyterian Church recently opened up their annual meeting with a prayer to “Allah” and even invoked the name of the false prophet Muhammad.
The United Methodist Church voted to begin discussing the possibility of approving homosexuality and allowing openly gay ministers to serve in their churches. Even though that process is not yet complete that didn’t stop them from nominating three openly gay ministers to high positions of office in the UMC.
The Southern Baptist Convention recently supported the construction of a Mosque. The Presbyterian Church USA, the Episcopal Church, Disciples of Christ/Christian Church, and many others now accept gays and lesbians into membership and welcome openly gay ministers.
The Churches of Christ even teach the demonic doctrine that you have to be baptized to be saved.There is a movement going around called “Chrislam” which seeks to unite Christianity and Islam into one religion.
Why is this happening? Why are entire denominations and churches watering down the Gospel, compromising the Word, blessing perversion, and including other gods and religions into our faith?Allow me to turn your attention to 1st Kings 12:28, 31-32.
“After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people… ‘Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you out of Egypt.’
Jeroboam built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites. He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eight month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar.”
Notice that King Jeroboam of Israel did not create a new religion or make a new god. He said to the people, “Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you out of Egypt.” King Jeroboam in his mind, didn’t create a new religion, he simply made a false counterfeit version of the one that was handed down by the Lord to Moses.
King Jeroboam even instituted a counterfeit priesthood and a counterfeit version of the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles to imitate the faith of the Israelites (1stKings 12”31-32). The New Testament says as we approach the conclusion of the Last Days, the same thing will happen to Christianity.
“The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.” -1st Timothy 4:1
“For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.” -2nd Timothy 4:3
That is exactly what we see happening when we see these “Christian” denominations watering down the word, coming out in approval of gay marriage, and incorporating Islam into their worship services. This “apostasy” will continue until eventually what we will see is a false counterfeit version of Christianity.
These denominations and “churches” that I have mentioned are not seeking to create a new god or institute a new religion. They are just creating a counterfeit version of Christianity. The Bible tells us this will continue to happen. During the End Times the Bible tells us that a false ecumenical church will arise and dominate religion and global politics.
This “church” will be a sugar coated, watered down, distorted version of Christianity that approves of eviland includes aspects of other religions in order to appease the culture. King Jeroboam did the same thing.It didn’t stop there. In 1st Kings 16, King Ahab led the Israelites from following a counterfeit watered down version of Judaism to following the Baal religion and worshipping the Baal statues.
Revelations chapter 13 tells us that the same thing will happen to this apostate ecumenical church. During the Tribulation, the Antichrist will abolish this “church” and create a religion centered around himself and will even have a statue of the Antichrist that people will be forced to worship.
“He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshipped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.” -2nd Thessalonians 2:4
“He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast…” –Revelation 13:14
Saints, this is why we must stay in the Word. These denominations will continue to distort and water down Christianity. They will continue this until the dominant form of Christianity in our nation will be counterfeit version of our faith that we won’t even recognize. Then after God’s TRUE Church has been raptured, they will follow the Antichrist to worshipping him and his image.
If your church or denomination has “departed from the truth”, I encourage you to heed the words of God found in Revelation 18 when he spoke of this end time counterfeit church,
“Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins have piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.” -Revelation 18:4-5
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