The Church In The Last Days

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The Church In The Last Days
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The Church In The Last Days

• There are a number of prophecies in the New
  Testament that predict what the church will be
  like in the last days.  These descriptions of the
  church are strikingly similar to the current
  condition of the church.

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• 2 Thess. 23 - "Let no man deceive you by any
  means for that day shall not come, except there
  come a falling away first, and that man of sin be
  revealed, the son of perdition" (KJV)

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• 2 Thess. 23 - "Let no man deceive you by any
  means for that day shall not come, except there
  come a falling away first, and that man of sin be
  revealed, the son of perdition" (KJV)
• In other words, before Christ returns, there will
  be a "falling away" or an apostasy (the Greek
  word used here is apostasia).

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• 2 Tim 43-4 - "For the time will come when men
  will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to
  suit their own desires, they will gather around
  them a great number of teachers to say what their
  itching ears want to hear. They will turn their
  ears away from the truth and turn aside to
  myths."

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• Most people today do not put up with sound
  doctrine.  Many believe that the Bible has been
  corrupted over time and is no longer trustworthy.
   For those who do believe that the Bible is God's
  word, most do not live according to it.  Today's
  churchgoers have surrounded themselves with
  preachers that tell them exactly what they want
  to hear.

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• Mat. 249-11 - "Then you will be handed over to
  be persecuted and put to death, and you will be
  hated by all nations because of me. At that time
  many will turn away from the faith and will
  betray and hate each other, and many false
  prophets will appear and deceive many people."

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• The Christian church has become divided, and
  hundreds or even thousands of denominations have
  been formed.  Most of these denominations preach
  a gospel far different than the one presented in
  the Bible.

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• Mat. 2437-39 As it was in the days of Noah,
  so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
  For in the days before the flood, people were
  eating and drinking, marrying and giving in
  marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark and
  they knew nothing about what would happen until
  the flood came and took them all away. That is
  how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

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• Many churches today believe that we are
  currently in one of the best church ages yet,
  however, in Mat. 2437-39, Jesus compared the
  time of "the coming of the Son of Man" to the
  "days of Noah."

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• The Days of Noah
• Gen. 65-8 The LORD saw how great man's
  wickedness on the earth had become, and that
  every inclination of the thoughts of his heart
  was only evil all the time. The LORD was grieved
  that he had made man on the earth, and his heart
  was filled with pain.

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• The Days of Noah
• So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I
  have created, from the face of the earthmen and
  animals, and creatures that move along the
  ground, and birds of the airfor I am grieved
  that I have made them." But Noah found favor in
  the eyes of the LORD.

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• 2 Tim. 31-9 But mark this There will be
  terrible times in the last days. People will be
  lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful,
  proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents,
  ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving,
  slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not
  lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited,
  lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God
  having a form of godliness but denying its power.
  Have nothing to do with them.

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• They are the kind who worm their way into
  homes and gain control over weak-willed women,
  who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by
  all kinds of evil desires, always learning but
  never able to acknowledge the truth. Just as
  Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these
  men oppose the truthmen of depraved minds, who,
  as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.
  But they will not get very far because, as in the
  case of those men, their folly will be clear to
  everyone.

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• 2 Tim. 313 - "while evil men and impostors will
  go from bad to worse, deceiving and being
  deceived."