Where are we now in Church
history?
Elijah’s ministry was during a
time of great apostasy. Ahab was king but Jezebel his wife wore the pants, she
wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal and they began to
serve Baal and worship him. We are told that ‘there was never a man like Ahab, who sold himself to
do evil in the eyes of the Lord, urged on by Jezebel his wife’ (1
Ki 21:25). Then when Ahab died, his son Jehoram reigned but Jezebel was there
in the background still calling the shots.
The worship of Baal
involves child sacrifice. The Jezebel spirit is about manipulation, control and domination.
In Ecclesiastes 3:15 it says, ‘what is, already was; what is to be, has
been already’. In other words, history keeps repeating itself, so what is
happening in the world right now has happened before, but when it happens in
the time just before Jesus returns we will see the greatest show of ungodliness
ever. So why did God destroy the world in Noah’s day? It was because they
were ungodly. He could not see any image of himself in humanity. When you
become ungodly it means that there is nothing within you that reflects the
image of God. That is why he destroyed Sodom & Gomorrah. They were pleasure
seekers not God seekers. Peter tells us that ungodliness is rebellion against
God’s constituted authority; it is calling good evil and evil good. People with
an insatiable capacity for sinning; Lawlessness within is the nature of the
devil himself.
The modern day Ahab, Jezebel & Jehoram were Bill & Hillary Clinton
and Barak Obama.
On the 4th day of the Clinton presidency he signed, in a televised Oval
Office ceremony, a series of executive orders undoing the policies of the
Reagan-Bush era relating to abortion, contraception, and family planning.
Hillary had pushed unequivocally for the orders. In 1996 Bill Clinton
twice vetoes the Partial Birth Abortion Ban
Act.
Obama was the
political ‘son’ of the Clintons and with Hilary behind him he was the most pro
abortion and anti Christian and anti Israeli President ever. He voted
against banning partial birth abortion. He voted NO on defining unborn child as
eligible for SCHIP (child health insurance). He voted NO on prohibiting minors
crossing state lines for abortion. He voted YES on expanding research to more
embryonic stem cell lines. He voted NO on notifying parents of minors who get
out-of-state abortions. And he voted YES on $100m to reduce teen pregnancy by
education & contraceptives and ensured access to and funding for
contraception. Hillary was planning for full term abortions.
Under his rule same-sex marriage was made legal and married same-sex
couples were granted equal social security and other marriage benefits.
Obama signed an executive order,
making it illegal for federal contractors to discriminate based on sexual
orientation or gender identity. Eleven days after she announced that she was
running for the Presidency, Hillary Clinton said that ‘deep seated religious
beliefs must be changed’. Why? So that abortion can increase.
What we are seeing in nations today would not be happening if God’s people
were lights shining the light of God. Most mainstream denominations have
completely apostatized. They are sanctifying abortion, gay marriage and gender
identity and have compromised with the world. The church is no longer salt to
the earth. Salt flavours, it stops the spread of infection and disease and
prevents from corruption.
Apostasy involves people who once knew God but no longer follow or believe
in him. A culture that once was Christian and has turned away is a culture that
has become the gods of their own lives and becomes worse for them because their
punishment will be greater.
‘For if, after
they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and
overpowered, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would
have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than,
after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was passed on to
them. It has happened to them according to the proverb, "The dog turns
back to its own vomit," and, "The sow is washed only to wallow in the
mud."(2 Peter 2:20-22)
The spirit of the antichrist is a rejection of Christ and his ways. This
present generation is now worse than the generation of Sodom. The prophet
Daniel (7:7) described the 4th beast as different from all the
other beasts and the purpose is to change all the laws that have been already
set. This 4th beast seeks to change all traditions and create
an unnatural civilization, by changing the natural order.
Today they are re-defining marriage * manhood * womanhood * parenthood and
childhood and the way they are changing the natural order according to (1 Macc
1:34) is they are installing an army of sinful perverse men and women in
positions of power. Today we have many powerful people ruling in Governments,
in the Media, in the legal system that years ago would never have been in
power. We are seeing a total reversal of the natural order.
The spirit of the antichrist seeks to change what is natural to what is
unnatural. What was mainstream now has become the fringe and what was fringe
has now become the mainstream. People who were once considered leaders,
lighting up God’s word and God’s ways now find themselves pushed out and
treated as bigots, troublemakers and intolerant and now we have a reversal of
culture as Isaiah 5:20 says ‘calling evil good and good evil, calling darkness
light and light darkness’ What was profane has now become celebrated and what
was holy has now become profane.
Other signs of the antichrist at work are the spirit of pride, arrogance
and mockery. In the name of tolerance they can say what they like against God
and the faith of believers. They are tolerant towards evil but intolerant to
everything that is holy. The end time culture is of man declaring himself as god,
re-defining morality, re-defining marriage, re-defining gender.
3 times in the 1st chapter of Romans we are told
that God steps back. Whenever a nation or people rebel against God and turn
away from him he steps back and lowers the hedge of protection and he allows
evil to multiply and in sweeps a sexual revolution. This happened in the 1960’s.
Then there was a window of grace in order for people to repent and we had
a big wave of the Holy Spirit in the form of Charismatic renewal. It was meant
to come into the heart of the Church but the leaders rejected it. So because of
their refusal to repent, then God stepped back again and lowered the hedge and
in swept sexual perversion with them all coming brazenly out of the closet and
into the open
Finally, God steps back again and removes the hedge completely and
delivers those in the nation to a depraved mind which is what we are witnessing
right now. We are seeing things today that we could never have imagined years
ago. We are witnessing a great rebellion in our country and it’s the blind
leading the blind.
Judgment always follows acts of desecration. The rainbow is a holy sign
that belongs to God and not to man. The LGBT people have desecrated this holy
sign of God. By their insistence on same sex marriage they are desecrating and
violating God’s divine order. This is calling evil good and good evil. They are
driving God out of society, persecuting believers and all those who have come
out of the closet now want to put into the closet, all those who disagree with
them. So we now have a nation that has once know the ways of God but has now
rejected his ways, that’s apostasy. The heart of this nation has grown cold.
If you want to impact the world then keep yourself separated from it. Do
not bend the word of God to fit your lifestyle. Bend your lifestyle to fit the
word of God. In the days of darkness that lie ahead be a light, it shines
brighter in dark places. Remember it was the 5 foolish virgins who were
rejected because they had no oil in their lamps, you need to keep the lamp of
faith alive and you need the anointing of the Holy Spirit to keep going in
times of darkness. The world is not your friend it is your enemy (James 4:4)
Abortion:
(Lev 18:21) Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for
you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.
Homosexuality:
(Lev 18:22) Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.
Bestiality:
(Lev 18:23) Do not have sexual relations
with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal
to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.
Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because
this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.
Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited
out its inhabitants. (Lev 18: 24-25)
