Happy Easter! Why the church isn't Ready for the 2nd Coming of Christ.
Yes, it is called the Blessed hope of all true born again believers in Christ, and it is my opinion that the church isn't ready for that day. Why, when all throughout the centuries the church in it's creeds and dogmas has been heralding the immanent return of her Lord and Saviour! Why, 2000 years after Christ died for our sins is the church unprepared? I don't know exactly, there could be many reasons why the church has apostatized. In 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 it says: 1 "Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, 2 that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God." (2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 | ) NASB
The church in the world has been playing God for a very long time. Instead of honouring and glorifying her Lord, she has taken her seat in the temple and called herself God! Christ is the head of the church, but through worldly religion and a godless culture, the church has wrongly confronted sin in her pews with a spirit of condemnation not restoration and repentance. She has been effective in pointing people to a knowledge of the truth, but has failed to properly teach how to repent. Her apostasy has been gradual, and we are living in a time where the church needs to learn again why she has been effective over the years. People are perishing, but this is not only the church's fault. Most people these days are divided and are causing great hurt to the people of God.
When the church forgets how to repent, it leaves a trail of death behind it. While there are more people participating in programs in the church, the church is confusing the message of salvation, making it very hard to share her message without receiving persecution. The gospel is clear, but we are taking an unclear message to a family and world that is literally perishing. I'm trying to be clear, we shouldn't be perishing along with the world, and we should be helping to hold it together! Part of it, is that we are allowing ourselves to become disillusioned along with the culture. We haven't understood how to become consistently effective and this is why we are becoming the dust that our culture walks over. Please forgive me, I don't mean to be insulting but when the church makes compromises with the world, we lose our effectiveness.
Part of strengthening ourselves is learning why and how we must repent. This doesn't guarantee our present deliverance, but it sends a strong message to our culture that we are serious about sin, and we are serious about hell, and we are serious about heaven. Being confident in what we believe is a step in the right direction, so as a church, we desperately need to take our faith and family very seriously. Lest we be ashamed when Christ comes a second time, and our time on this earth is finished! This is Mike.
Yes, it is called the Blessed hope of all true born again believers in Christ, and it is my opinion that the church isn't ready for that day. Why, when all throughout the centuries the church in it's creeds and dogmas has been heralding the immanent return of her Lord and Saviour! Why, 2000 years after Christ died for our sins is the church unprepared? I don't know exactly, there could be many reasons why the church has apostatized. In 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 it says: 1 "Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, 2 that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God." (2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 | ) NASB
The church in the world has been playing God for a very long time. Instead of honouring and glorifying her Lord, she has taken her seat in the temple and called herself God! Christ is the head of the church, but through worldly religion and a godless culture, the church has wrongly confronted sin in her pews with a spirit of condemnation not restoration and repentance. She has been effective in pointing people to a knowledge of the truth, but has failed to properly teach how to repent. Her apostasy has been gradual, and we are living in a time where the church needs to learn again why she has been effective over the years. People are perishing, but this is not only the church's fault. Most people these days are divided and are causing great hurt to the people of God.
When the church forgets how to repent, it leaves a trail of death behind it. While there are more people participating in programs in the church, the church is confusing the message of salvation, making it very hard to share her message without receiving persecution. The gospel is clear, but we are taking an unclear message to a family and world that is literally perishing. I'm trying to be clear, we shouldn't be perishing along with the world, and we should be helping to hold it together! Part of it, is that we are allowing ourselves to become disillusioned along with the culture. We haven't understood how to become consistently effective and this is why we are becoming the dust that our culture walks over. Please forgive me, I don't mean to be insulting but when the church makes compromises with the world, we lose our effectiveness.
Part of strengthening ourselves is learning why and how we must repent. This doesn't guarantee our present deliverance, but it sends a strong message to our culture that we are serious about sin, and we are serious about hell, and we are serious about heaven. Being confident in what we believe is a step in the right direction, so as a church, we desperately need to take our faith and family very seriously. Lest we be ashamed when Christ comes a second time, and our time on this earth is finished! This is Mike.
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