Two Million Apostasy Sites!

How interesting it is to note how the world is turning away from religion?! A quick Google search on the word "apostasy" will find over two million sites, some very well put together, contemplating this very serious issue.

The "apostasy" is, to put in simple terms, the time when people that once believed in God begin to turn away. In the Old Testament, the Prophet Amos put it like this:

Amos 8:11 - "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord God, "That I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord."

Today, in our local newspaper, which by the way, is no small town paper, it circulates in the hundreds of thousands each day, featured a fairly large column on Atheism.

Specifically the article sited three prominent atheist's and their recent books, all close too, if not best sellers, and of course, go about condemning religion. Of all sorts. Now normally this is not something we would discuss. But up until just a couple of weeks ago, this same page was the "religion" page, where local pastors, preachers, rabbis, and priests of various beliefs were allowed to espouse a point of view.

That is gone. The radical element of religion has begun to take a toll on the senses of those that would give them a public forum, and this seemingly small, quick change in a metropolitan newspaper, is just the tip of a very large movement that will soon lead us to what is known as the apostasy.

The overkill of so called Christian TV evangelists, far right preaching and action from all religions, and the heavy load of promises coming from, again so called Christian preachers who don't know the Bible from their bottom, are going to cause an awakening.

Soon, church going people who are easily swept away by believing that God and their idea of a good life, equate, will come to realize that all they have done is allow their money and their mind to go to people that live the life they promise, but only because those that are seeking answers, are paying for it.

When the eyes open to the total dishonesty of broken promises, misused Biblical verses, and more, extra-Biblical(outside the Bible, things not in the Bible)teachings come into the light, there is great anger. People may not lose their interest in God, but the church as it is now slowly, will go by the wayside.

There is evidence all around us to prove this out. Look at Europe as one example. The Jews were set for extermination, just prior to WWII, under the guise of what was considered to be the mindset of a good Christian. Now the Churches of Europe are all but empty. The reality of the lie set within the religious teaching, set in motion a backlash of anti-church. Not necessarily against God, as most in Europe still profess to believe, but most certainly against the Church.

In fact, take note of the explosion here in American these last few years of the Evangelical movement. The bulk of these church's are filled with former mainstream religion church goers. People who saw hypocrisy in one place and now fall for it in another. Why? Because they like the person delivering the message and/or the music. Doctrine is so confused for these that to tell them the truth actually confuses them.

This little note is not an alarm, it isn't to scare anyone. It simply is notice to try to open eyes to the world that is beginning to move in a direction we may be missing. It is information so that as people who believe in God, in His Provision in Christ Jesus, in the Grace in which have been so Blessed, that we don't get swayed by some, what will be very convincing, rhetoric that is just lately beginning to get noticed.

The time is just around the corner where Amos' prophecy will come about. We are sealed with the Holy Spirit, and have no worries about this. But, we should be aware, just as happened only six generations from Adam to his great to the fifth generation grandson, who not only did not believe in God, he claimed to be God.

The "man of lawlessness" as the Bible names him, may possibly state his claim soon. That is, "Man is God." How does that saying go? Oh yes, "History repeats itself."

Be watchful, but be assured, because we are not left as orphans, we are children of God, Who will never leave us nor forsake us! Amen!

Dr. Lamby