Going west to California, you will see signs informing you of the last opportunity for fuel before entering Death Valley. There is a very good reason why call it Death Valley, so it is not wise to ignore the warnings to fuel up. The fact is many opportunities come and go in life without our taking advantage of them. There are last opportunities to buy into a great business deal, purchase stocks, get a sport or concert ticket, or vote. We wouldn’t want to miss the last opportunity to catch a beautiful sundown on a mountain lake before heading home. How tragic it would be to miss the last opportunity to say “I love you” to someone we really cared about before they died. However, people miss those last opportunities regularly in major and minor matters. There is sadness because we did not realize it was the last opportunity. The fact is, we never know when we are faced with the last opportunity.

Every day an estimated 146,347 people die. Many of them miss the last opportunity to take care of important matters because their death is sudden. A significant number of the ones who die miss the last opportunity to accept the sacrifice of Christ Jesus and surrender their lives to God. In a split second, they enter eternity without an opportunity to utter one word or even flex a muscle. The odds are that someone we know will reach the end of their opportunities before this year is over. It stands to reason that we all will eventually come to the same conclusion. Our lives will end, all opportunities in this life will have ended, and all that remains is what we have invested in the eternal realm.

I know people that have run out of opportunities for a normal life. Some of them have irreversible debilitating disorders or diseases that prevent them from ever being able to do what they once did. I know a man with stage 4 cancer that is trying to accomplish everything he can before his time expires. Another individual I have known since he was a child is in jail charged with numerous aggravated armed robberies. Awakened from sleep by a S.W.A.T. team and arrested, he will never again hold his children, comfort their fears, or kiss their cheeks. Those opportunities along with many other blessings taken for granted are lost forever.

It is obvious to every true Christian that time is running out for this world. The great a final deception gathers speed each day. More people are drowning in its grasp. The apostasy is greatly increasing in number. What many professing Christians do not appear to know is that this is the finale. There will be no recovery for Christianity, no great revival to shake people back to their senses, and no great awakening. The line of demarcation is clearly drawn by truth. It is a bold and narrow line but no one can straddle it. People will not be able to compromise with evil while attempting to remain in God’s kingdom. They will either be all for God or all for Satan. When the Antichrist and False Prophet appear, they will find that the great majority of the world’s inhabitants are ready to receive and worship them. The fact is that people who reject the truth will fall under a great delusion. It will be impossible to escape the grasp of the great delusion. Individuals on the opposite side of truth will be condemned to eternity in outer darkness. There will be no second chances.

It stands to reason that one day the opportunity to escape the deception, apostasy, and delusion will be ended. God’s word describes it as a door being closed. When that door closes, the final opportunity to surrender to God and receive Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior will be over. It will be over not only for secular people, but for professing Christians that have compromised away their faith and commitment to God. No matter what type of soteriology one believes in, if ones belief system allows him or her to live as a subject of Satan while claiming to be a child of the King, that belief system is in contrast and conflict with God’s word. There is plenty of cheap “hell insurance” being sold by unscrupulous preachers, churches, denominations, and etc. The only true insurance is true assurance. Living like a demon while claiming to be a saint does provide true assurance. It will provide plenty of deception.

One day the last opportunity to quit playing religious games will have passed. The last opportunity to escape from a paganism-infested Emergent or Seeker Friendly church will be gone. The last opportunity to stop vacillating between two kingdoms, the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light, to quit cavorting with demons disguised as true Christians, to break off flirting with the world system, and to cease ecumenical courting of cults and false religions, will be over. The last opportunity to reject Contemplative Spirituality, to end breath praying and entering altered states of consciousness, to stop gorging on heretical books and videos, to discontinue living for self, to quit marginalizing God as an asterisk in their lives, and to give up honoring hypocrisy as true Christianity, will be no more.

The sad truth is that the ones who rejected God’s warnings and continue in their rebellion will not even know when they meet and ignore the last opportunity. They will feel a sudden relief as the Holy Spirit ceases convicting them. It will seem like a utopia of the right mixture of the carnal and spiritual; something they have been working at for years. Only when the final wrath of God arrives will they realize that they are on the threshold of eternal separation from God. Then they will cry out for deliverance, but the last opportunity to avoid God’s judgment, verdict, and sentence will have long been removed. The path is broad that leads to destruction. Therefore, basing one’s spiritual condition on what the majority accepts is dangerous. IF you are in error and have read to this point, this may be your last opportunity to turn away from darkness and turn back to God. You may never get another opportunity to do so. What will you do with this opportunity?

A. W. Tozer, David Wilkerson, and other ones saw the coming of the apostasy years ago. And no wonder; they had the Holy Spirit living in them and they made the Lord Jesus their life.  They were praying men.  Tozer was said to have risen early each day to spend three hours in prayer. He kept a piece of leather in his office that he put under his face as the lay on the floor.  David Wilkerson prayed for hours late at night when all was still.  Tozer remonstrated about the shameful spiritual condition of professing Christians that were content to cozy up to the world system and sample its wares.  Wilkerson prophesied about the coming storm of apocalyptic proportions.

Today we are quite possibly witnessing the arrival of the events they spoke and wrote about. However, neither of them specifically mentioned Contemplative Spirituality via Spiritual Formation, the Emergent Church Movement, the New Apostolic Reformation, and the other heresies along with ecumenism that are destroying Christianity.  I do not know if either of them foresaw the degree and scope of ecumenism with Roman Catholicism and other religions that a significant number of Christian leaders are now involved in.  I believe that what they saw was what many lesser known preachers recognized and that was the seeds of apostasy.  What form the apostasy might take or the vehicle by which it might arrive may not have been as clear to them as the seeds of apostasy and soil they were germinating in.  Now we see the flowering tree of apostasy dropping its poison fruit, and the deceived ones feast without fear.

The seeds of apostasy are numerous. They include individual autonomy, loss of the reverential fear of God, self-aggrandizement, greatly diminished or loss of interest in maintaining godliness, desensitization to conviction, loss of spiritual hearing and sight, prioritizing life with the essentials of true Christianity at the bottom or absent from the list, marginalizing the precept of abstaining from fleshly lusts that war against the soul, ignoring the Holy Spirit to the point of rejection, the loss of gratitude to God and Christ Jesus for salvation.  I’m certain that the list could be lengthened with many entries, but the picture is clear.  They initiate and sponsor a subtle shift from a focus on eternal things to temporal things.  The seeds begin growing in the lukewarm soul long before the outward signs of apostasy appear.

In my opinion, the present apostasy was rooted long ago, but the seedlings broke through the top soil sometime during the last 4 decades.  In the past couple of decades, the pace of growth has increased.  However, in the past 5 years we have witnessed an astounding rate of growth. Many mega churches and even denominations have been completely overcome by apostasy. The reason for the sharp increase is singular.  There is no greater indicator of the state of Christianity than the condition of the churches.  If in a building designed and set aside for the most spiritual gathering of the week people cannot remain true to God’s truth, it is a given that their testimonies are significantly compromised during the rest of the time.  The fact is that there are now more than one generation of professing Christians that are spiritually anemic, unknowledgeable, addicted to the world system, and ready subjects for the Antichrist.

Church leaderships have dramatically changed the churches to appease professing Christians who compromise their faith and the essence of Christianity.  For those leaders the bottom line is numbers and economy.  Enter the church growth movement and its full scale compromise of every factor of true Christianity.  Whatever it takes to draw in the finicky and bored masses is the meat of most “church growth” programs and books.  It stands to reason that if an individual will compromise his or her belief system to accommodate a gradual move away from commitment to God, they are not going to tolerate a church that refuses to make the same compromise.  They will attend only those churches that make the compromise to accommodate them.  In fact, today churches can be planted and will grow rapidly that cater to a particular fleshly desire of nominal Christians.  Recently, I saw a news report about “fight churches” where pastors engage each other in MMA fighting in the “sanctuary”.  I read an article some time ago where a pastor hired a stripper to serve communion in an attempt to attract more men to the service.  Further, there is no doubt that many churches today have resorted to New Age practices and doctrines to lure in professing Christians that have been experimenting with other religions.

Taking advantage of the sordid spiritual condition of the nominal Christian masses, their lack of discernment and their willingness to be led by sensationalism and lures of carnal appeasement, a plethora of hirelings scramble over each other to plant churches and grab share of the booty.  It is obvious to true Christians that these practitioners of simony are not called, sent, or anointed by God.  But no matter how much they are exposed, or how disgusting their behavior is revealed, they have no shame.  Most of them simply ignore the exposure as if it didn’t exist knowing that in a few days or weeks it will blow over like a March raincloud.  It takes outrage by a significant number of professing Christians to expose the stench in heresy.  There is not enough outrage in Christianity because little moral authority remains.  A contributing factor is that true Christians are in a shrinking minority.  Consequently, everything is being flipped or swapped so that truth is now called lies and lies deemed as truth.  The situation has become so critical that heretics and their followers are considered true believers while the children of God are considered false and diabolical.

This apostasy appears beyond critical mass.  It seems that nothing can stop or even slow it down except a powerful revival.  There is no indication in the Scriptures of such revival during the final apostasy.  If we are in the final apostasy, the prognosis for this present spiritual declension is grim.  The false prophets and apostles are prophesying a mighty world-wide revival, but their basis for doing so is not God’s word, but a revelation that came to a few individuals at the heart of the apostasy.  Many of them, such as Peter Wagner and Rick Joyner, supported the openly heretical and bizarre Todd Bentley and homosexual alcoholic prophet Paul Cain.  If they were so prophetically tuned that they could add to God’s word by revelation, why is it that they could not discern obviously diabolical individuals that they knew personally?

I believe that when the Antichrist and False Prophet appears, the followers of Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Brian Mclaren, Bill Johnson, Ruth Haley Barton, Joel Osteen, Oprah Winfrey, Tony Jones, Bill Hybels, Richard Foster, Sue Monk Kidd, Sarah Young, Ann Voscamp, Beth Moore, Judah Smith, Steven Furtick, (and the list is very long and growing) will hail them as God’s chosen vessels to bring about the fabled “Kingdom Now” with world peace and unity.  Professing Christians that have fallen for “Seeker Friendly” easy believism will be ecstatic about the False Prophet’s new Christianity and one-world church.  They will be thrilled by the satanically powerful lying signs and wonders.  When all unrighteous deception floods their spirits, they will swoon under the ecstasy.  They will rejoice with the New Apostolic Reformation believing that the world dominance by the False Prophet and Antichrist is the fulfilling of dominion prophesies.  Rick Joyner and the New Apostolic leaders will most likely rejoice in the slaughter of Christians as the fulfillment of the “blues and grays” civil/holy war prophesy.

They will rejoice in the ecumenical one-world religion that they have finally achieved status with the “corporate christ”.  I can see stadiums filled will people in huge religious meetings, all of them sitting in Yoga position, hands upturned in salutation to the Sun, humming, breath praying, and chanting as demons dance all around them.  They will rejoice in one-world peace, perhaps according to Rick Warren’s P.E.A.C.E. Plan, bought with the compromise of truth stuffed in the skin of a lie.  Everyone who opposes the great lie (perhaps that we can become a christ) will be considered a hindrance to world peace and disposable.  I can see them lined across the television screen hand in hand, smiling all, faces shining with deception, the prominent Hindus, Buddhists, Druids, Witches, Wizards, professing Christians, along with the Pope and every other significant religious figure, with huge roars of unfettered pleasure thundering from the innumerable sea of adoring subjects.  I can see them as they will eat the bread of deception and drink the blood of the saints in an unholy communion, but afterward their mouths will be filled with gravel (Proverbs 20:17).

I watched a portion of a church service in Birmingham, Alabama where the pastor declared that he was excited about the Noah movie and encouraged people to go see it. That church was promoting the movie with large background of the movie poster behind the stage and a series of teachings on the story of Noah. Although there are few leading professing Christians lending their support to it, I believe that Christians will still flock to see it. A precedent was set with the Christian promotion of the Son of God movie. There is no moral authority left for discouraging professing Christians from watching the Noah movie. But some people are wondering where are all the reviews and warnings from people like me about the Noah movie. After all, a lot of time and effort was spent on trying to warn Christians about the New Age Son of God movie. I will tell you why I haven’t spent as much time on the Noah movie as I did on the Son of God movie.

My first reason is simply because it would be completely fruitless. Professing Christians that would go to the Son of God movie in spite of all the evidence that it portrayed a New Age Jesus will go to see the Noah movie. Nothing can now stop them from doing whatever their flesh dictates in regard to religious Hollywood movies.

Second, there is nothing to expose about the producer or his intent in making the movie. The movie Noah was produced by an atheist that bragged about the fact that he avoided following the biblical script. Therefore, his true colors and agenda do not have to be pried out of the data about his past.

Third, the previews from people that have read the script or watched the movie were all consistent that it was indeed not a biblical movie. Some the reviews that were released today stated that Christians who were sticklers for biblical accuracy (uh, that would be me) would be disappointed in the movie. So why should I spend the time and effort attempting to expose what is already clearly exposed?

Therefore, I confess that I have nothing to say about the Noah movie that has not already been said. But I do have a few questions for the professing Christians that supported the Son of God movie. For the ones who supported the Christless Son of God movie, I wonder if they are going to support the Godless Noah movie as well. If not, why not? It’s a given that Noah is not as important to the integrity of Gospel as the Christ Jesus. Oh, I get it. With the Son of God movie, they were willing to accept a percentage of error that included distortion of the true Son of God. But now they have their limits as to how much distortion of the truth they will tolerate in Noah’s story. There were those of us that were not willing to tolerate any distortion of God’s Son, our Lord and Savior. They mocked and chastised us for sticking to our limit.  To be fair, they should practice what they preached.  They should violate their standard as they demanded of us.

So I say to Matthew Hagee, Rick Warren, and the rest, go ahead and support the Noah movie. After all, why be judgmental, tale bearers, demonic, and let’s see, what else was it that they called us? Oh, I remember now; haters and resisters of God’s kingdom work. After all, why should they hate on the kindly atheist “doing God’s kingdom work” producing the Noah movie when they defended the New Age heretics that produced the Son of God movie?