Flee the Wrath

Is it a co-incidence that this last 50 years has seen a reformation and reawakening of the Islamic faith on a worldwide scale, whilst at the same time Christendom has undergone a falling away from the faith?

I’ll get back to that question shortly.

Those of us who hold fast to our Christian faith, who know that the Lord is God, we reside in the midst of Christendom and lament what’s going on around us. Our culture is doing all it can to abandon it’s Christian heritage. I think of the words of the psalmist who penned;

Psalm 2 “Let us break their chains,” they cry, “and free ourselves from this slavery.“

This is precisely what we are doing at this time in my nation, and I am sure most of Christendom likewise. We are seeking to break the bonds of righteousness, to which this wicked generation likens to being bonds of slavery.

Today in my nation the media generally seek to belittle their Christian heritage, and undermine the faith. They speak on things which they do not understand, nor do they care to. They so often mock the Christian faith and use words such as “fairytales” to describe the word of God.

Yet in the very same breath in which they belittle the Christian faith, they embrace the Islamic faith as an valid faith to behold, and refuse point blank to look upon the sad reality of what the religion of Islam will offer a culture which values it’s freedoms.

Woe to you foolish people.

Back to my original question, is it a co-incidence, that the rise of Islam has occurred at the very same time that Christendom is reaching the fullness of it’s apostasy.

Of course it’s no co-incidence!

I imagine that this day is likened to the day of Jeremiah, for it is just the same in that Jeremiah had to tell the people that their wayward hearts and backsliding ways had bought the nation to a place of judgment.

Jeremiah 5:15 “Behold, I am bringing a nation against you from afar, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an enduring nation, It is an ancient nation, A nation whose language you do not know, Nor can you understand what they say.

Those of us in who hold fast to our Christian faith in the midst of this apostasy know full well that there must come a day of reckoning. We see it approaching rather rapidly at this time. We know full well that in order for a loving father to correct the waywardness of a disobedient child, one must discipline sternly. We who hold to any godly wisdom know this full well.

Those of us who hold fast to our faith in this generation also see something perhaps more troubling. We see so many of our churches preaching another gospel, a gospel that is altogether different from the Gospel of our Lord.

At the same time as the prevailing culture has embraced humanism, this same humanism has made it’s way into much of the church. We see man being exalted from our pulpits, we hear a new gospel that seeks to make man the centre of all things, and God, as the one whom ought to respond to our needs according to our carnal hopes, dreams and desires.

I am saddened to say that so many in our churches are no longer able to discern the error in these new teachings which are so often embraced by the hearer, with no critical thought given to biblical truth. Worldliness is dressed up in a gown of righteousness and we buy it, no questions asked.

Paul said in 2 Thessalonians that the day will come when there is a falling away from the faith, an apostasy, and at that time the son of perdition (man of sin) would sit in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. And this man of sin would opposeth and exalteth himself above God.

This is that day!

I believe that Paul is referring to this day in which we live Christian. And I believe this scripture is applied to Christendom.

Sadly there are no co-incidences going on here. The rise of Islam is to suit the purposes of God. Did Christ not say that He would spew the lukewarm church out of His mouth, did Paul not say that we were to hand over the adulterer to satan for destruction of the flesh, in the hope, in the hope, that in the day of the Lord, his spirit would be saved.

Luke 21:36 Watch you therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Having said that remember this, that the Lord may be with Islam at this time in regard to her increase, He is allowing her to flourish for a season, to suit His purposes.

Christian, be not soon shaken or troubled as you see all of these things come to pass.