The world is growing further into apostasy, and the sins of mankind are weighing heavy on the earth and its people – how far will this go?
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The Unrecognizable World
These days, I am not sure where I am living. Over the past twenty years, the world has fallen into sin so dramatically that I don’t recognize it anymore.
Lawlessness abounds. Riots are left unpoliced, even encouraged by politicians. Liberal states are eliminating cash bail, sending violent criminals back onto the streets while they await trial. Meanwhile, cities are reducing police forces and treating them with contempt, resulting in soaring violent crimes.
Paganism and witchcraft are rising. People are bowing down to ancient gods, such as a large mechanized bull, and following new age spirituality. Churches are falling to apostate beliefs, embracing LGBTQ lifestyles, and church attendance is waning. And the Pope has joined a brotherhood of false religions.
Governments are joining the apostasy, practicing lawlessness, and treating the killing of unborn babies as a fundamental human right. And in the U.S., Biden has appointed people with psychological and spiritual problems to government positions. These include transvestites and a homosexual tattooed with satanic imagery, including a large pentagram.
The sexualization of society has spread with pornography and sex everywhere on TV. Society accepts that anything goes, including sexual relationships with objects and even animals. Confusion spreads as people assume different genders at will and even assume animal identities. And society indoctrinates children into this depravity. Parents bring kids to hear stories from drag queens who look like demons and live hyper-sexualized lives. Meanwhile, parents who push back are labeled domestic terrorists.
People are suffering as a result of the darkness. Drug overdoses and suicides are soaring to record levels, each producing deaths of over 100,000 per year in the U.S. alone.
How could this get any worse?
According to the Bible, this is just the beginning. Here is what we can expect.
The Apostasy and the Coming of Christ
Jesus, John, and Paul described a time before Christ returns when darkness would spread over the earth. Paul calls this “the apostasy.”
Apostasy is when people abandon God’s law, allowing sin to run rampant. And the only answer to this sin is Jesus Christ.
In 2 Thessalonians 2, Paul tells us something about the timing of apostasy in relation to Christ’s return. He tells us that the coming of Christ, the gathering of us with Him, and the day of the Lord will not come until the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness (the Antichrist) is revealed.
Let’s break this down. Paul tells us the following:
- First comes the apostasy, the abandoning of God’s law
- Next, the man of lawlessness will be revealed – standing in the temple as God (Dan. 9:27, Matt. 24:15)
- Then the day of the Lord will come (Matt. 24:29, Rev. 6:12-17), and
- Christ will come and gather us with Him – the resurrection and rapture (1 Thess. 4, Matt. 24:30-31)
If the darkness we see around us is the apostasy Paul referred to, then we are very close to these end-of-age prophecies coming to fulfillment.
So how can we know? Biblical prophecies give us patterns and paradigms that appear at the end of an age. Signs prophesied for the end of the last age, the Age of Torah, are also said to relate to the end of this age, the Age of Grace. We see this throughout the book of Daniel, where events that have been fulfilled are said to relate to the end times. This duplicity is explicitly shown by the parallel signs of Matthew 24 and Revelation 6.
One such prophecy came from Paul, who described the sinful conditions at the end of the last age. Shockingly, these conditions accurately depict current times.
The Apostasy at the End of the Last Age
Paul wrote about apostasy in the epistle to the church in Rome at the end of the Age of Torah. Now, at the end of the Age of Grace, apostasy and sin are rising again. Paul’s words are as true today as they were nearly 2,000 years ago.
I am going to paraphrase and group Romans 1 to highlight the main points:
- Apostasy – Abandoning God
- For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks
- [They] worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator
- Replacing truth with lies
- They exchanged the truth of God for a lie
- Consequences
- they became futile in their thoughts, and their senseless hearts were darkened
- God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves
- God gave them over to dishonorable passions
- God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done
- Embracing LGBTQ Practices
- For their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones
- the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another
- Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error
- Indoctrination of Others
- they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them
Society widely approves of LGBTQ practices today, even celebrating and promoting them. This lifestyle in darkness is being pushed upon us by activists, governments, media, corporations, teachers, and even certain churches. Shockingly, parents even expose their children to this depravity.
Tying that age to this age, Paul used similar words in Romans 1 to describe people at the end of that age to the words he used in 2 Timothy 3 to describe the people at the end of this age.
Comparison of Roman’s 1 to 2 Timothy 3
| Romans 1 – End of Last Age | 2 Timothy 3 – in the Last Days |
| “They Are Filed with…” | “They Will Be“ |
| unrighteousness, wickedness | unholy, haters of good. contrivers of all sorts of evil, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God |
| murder, strife, deceit, hostility, malice, ruthless | treacherous, brutal |
| gossips, slanderers | malicious gossips |
| arrogant, boastful, disobedient to parents | arrogant, boastful, disobedient to parents, |
| covetousness, rife with envy, heartless | conceited, lovers of self, lovers of money, ungrateful, unloving |
| covenant-breakers | irreconcilable (not bound by truce) |
| insolent, senseless | reckless, without self-control, revilers |
| Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them | holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power |
Through these writings, Paul was telling us that the sinful conditions in the apostasy of that age will spring forth again in the apostasy of our age.
So what does this reveal about the current time?
The Birth Pangs are Upon Us
Today we are surrounded by sin and darkness. And not just the people but the earth itself is affected.
Paul wrote in Romans 8 that all creation groans and suffers until the glory comes. He further noted that it waits in a state of futility and the bondage of decay until the sons of God are revealed. It is certainly possible that the weight of our sins is weighing upon the earth today, contributing to the rise in extreme weather, earthquakes, and volcanic activity.
The time is right.
We are nearing the end of this age. Per calculations through the Dead Sea Scroll calendar, we will enter the last jubilee (50 years) of this age in 2025. Jesus revealed Himself as Messiah during the first shemitah (7 years) of the previous jubilee of the prior age (2,000 years) nearly 2,000 years ago. Will He return in the first seven years of this age?
As prophesied, the signs at the end of the last age are reappearing now on a global scale.
Jesus is coming soon. But before He returns, we will see the world fall deeper into the darkness of sin, chaos, and lawlessness. We will see the persecution of Christians and Jews continue to spread. As unrecognizable as the world is today compared to my childhood, it will grow darker in the coming years.
Today, we stand in the period of the birth pangs and must be prepared for persecution and tribulation (not to be confused with great tribulation). We are beginning the transition to a new age when Jesus will rule the earth during a sabbath age of peace and lawfulness. But before the birth of the next age, we will endure the labor pains of the transition.
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