“For the time will come when
they will NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE”
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Paul said of this end time that men would be “ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" 2 Timothy 4:7. He added, "But evil men and seducers shall wax WORSE AND WORSE, deceiving and being deceived” 2 Timothy 4:13
Paul admonished Timothy, in warning about these days:
“For the time will come when they will NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE”“ 2 Timothy 4:3.
=”TRUTH” no longer matters to them.
Since the 1st Century Church what has happened? The answer is in the Bible – a conspiracy to introduce pagan customs under the name “Christian” had been formed even in the days of the apostle Paul Gal.1:6-9; II Cor.11:13-15; II Tim. 4:3-4. By the last days of the apostle John, this conspiracy had grown so great that in some areas, true Christians were being cast out of the established local churches! III John 9, 10. A few centuries later, the Church was no longer observing the Biblical holidays, but replacing them with pagan holidays.
Great End-Time Apostate Church
And a great end-time FALSE Church was prophesied in your Bible. Jesus Christ Himself foretold in the Mount Olivet prophecy, speaking about the time just before His second coming, “TAKE HEED that no man DECEIVE you. For MANY shall come in my name [many shall come claiming to be His ministers, representing Him!], saying, I am Christ [admitting that Jesus is the Messiah, the Anointed One of God]; and shall DECEIVE MANY” Mathew24:4-5.
He added, “And many false prophets [preachers, teachers] shall rise, and shall DECEIVE MANY” (Matt.24:11). Many today are being misled by the ecumenical movement. They are being led to “compromise” proven truths, and to join forces with apostate religion – to “shake hands with the devil,” as it were – to embrace the legions of spiritual darkness! This will not lead to worldwide enlightenment, but to a new onrushing period of GREAT DARKNESS – a new spiritual DARK AGE!
A New DARK AGE Coming:
But, Jesus said, this end-time “Dark Age” will be darker, and worse, and more deadly and sinister, and fraught with peril and terror, than any comparable period in the history of humanity, or the history of the world! He warned, “For in those days shall be AFFLICTION, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, nor shall be. And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved [alive]: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days” (Mark 13:19-20).
We are entering a final age of worldwide RELIGIOUS OPPRESSION, tyranny, and evil! The apostle Paul also foretold it. He prophesied:
“This know also, that in the LAST DAYS perilous times shall come. For men shall
be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,
incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, TRAITORS, heady, high-minded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a [phony] FORM of godliness, but denying
the power thereof: from such turn away” II Tim.3:1-5.
Paul said of this end time that men would be “ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" (verse 7). He added, "But evil men and seducers shall wax WORSE AND WORSE, deceiving and being deceived” (verse 13).
Paul admonished Timothy, in warning about these days:
“For the time will come when they will NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE
[‘truth’ no longer matters to them, but rather ‘church growth,’ group
psychology, advertising and promotion]; but after their own lusts shall they
heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall TURN AWAY
their ears from the truth, and shall be TURNED UNTO FABLES [including
many Catholic ‘fables’!] ‘ II Tim.4:3-4.
That time has come!
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