Recently, I read where a self-professed prophet from Scotland came into a church meeting and rebuked popular pastor, John McArthur.   McArthur told his congregation that if the man were a real prophet, he would not have behaved in such a manner.  Really?  Other individuals chimed in during the days afterward remarking that a true prophet would have had better decorum.   I reached the conclusion that Christianity is not ready for, and would not receive true prophets.

The Bible is rich with portraits of God-sent prophets.  The major ones were all different in the manner in which they executed their calling.  However, they were completely alike in several areas.

They spoke boldly without bias or favor.  Their words deeply angered people.  They were not moved by the fear of offense or consequence.  They broke social rules.  They were despised and hated.  Not many people understood them and fewer chose to support or defend them.

Being a prophet in Old Testament times was a risky business.  People hunted down and killed many of the prophets.  Even Christ said, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her!”  – Matthew 23:37

There is a good reason why they hated the prophets.  God anoints the prophet with a powerful ability to penetrate the carnal mind, no matter how stubborn or hardened with sin that it is.  A normal individual might say the same statement and be ridiculed and made sport of.  The prophet speaks, and his words go like a sharp goad straight into the heart of rebellion.  Consider how Stephen’s words affected the Pharisees.

“When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.”  – Acts 7:54

If we think prophets are going to come today and act pastoral, as gentle and courteous individuals conscientious of possibly offending someone, then we need to read God’s word again.  They are unique men, prepared by God for a time of apostasy.  In this period, when the final deception, delusion, and apostasy are at critical mass, we had better be prepared for very bold and powerful prophets speaking truth so piercingly that hatred will flow toward them like blood during Armageddon.

It will be obvious that they did not take the Dale Carnegie course on “How to Win Friends and Influence People.”   They are anointed to break stony hearts and convict callused minds.  They will have piercing discernment.  They will not simply denounce common sin, but will go for the satanic motherlode.  They will rebuke the religious leaders who have sold themselves to Satan for fame, wealth, and a place in history.  When their rebukes come forth, it will be as missiles thrust by the Holy Spirit straight into their evil spirits.   Those rebukes will explode with conviction throughout their spiritual system.  Their conscience will sizzle like eggs in a hot skillet.

These prophets won’t ask to speak.  They will not say “please”, “thank you”, and “excuse me.”  Most people will be repulsed by their lack of decorum.   Not many will want to associate with them.  History will repeat itself.  They will live alone, stand alone, speak alone, and die alone—except that God is with them.  The world needs them, but does not want them.  Christians want them, but are afraid of them.  False Christians need them, but will join the world in killing them.

They are coming.  No apostasy has ever been without them.   They will shake the gates of evil until the hinges come unscrewed.  We will tremble at their boldness, and the pure hatred and violence reciprocating from the children of darkness.   I hope that we will stand with them, pray for them, and defend their right to speak the truth.  I hope that we will recognize that these men will be God’s final attempt to reach the deceived masses before the devouring Man of Sin arrives, and before the final outpouring of God’s wrath.

Years ago, I heard a preacher during a sermon say that there were satanic people infiltrating churches to cause disruptions.   Presently, there are numerous reports that the entire structure of Christianity has been infiltrated by satanic people.  This includes pastorates, local church leaders all the way up to leaders of denominations, Christian music, Christian literature, and television ministries.

I am inclined to believe those reports.  Nothing else explains the overwhelming inundation of New Age beliefs, witchcraft, paganism, etc., into Christianity.  Further, there are blasphemous statements and practices, homosexuality, rejection of biblical doctrine, and ecumenism with evil religions.  As the wickedness comes in, truth and righteousness are forced out.  It is not just happening to churches and pastors hooked on numbers growth, and those obsessed with signs and wonders.   Also at risk of being infiltrated are churches where few if anyone prays, and cold formalism and rituals have replaced once vibrant spiritual life.

I do not know if anyone has a firm grasp on how extensive and deep the infiltration is.  From my observations, and the degree of apostasy, I would say that it is a severe infestation.  I have wondered if it is not a fulfillment of a prophecy in Daniel.

“Now when they fall, they shall be aided with a little help; but many shall join with them by intrigue.” – Daniel 11:34

The Hebrew word for “intrigue” here is “chalaglaggah”, which means; flattery, slipperiness, fine promises, smoothness.  Why will individuals join with the people of God by “chalaglaggah”?  The only reason is to cause decay and corruption from within.

Presently, Christianity and churches have no earthly means of detecting and ridding themselves of this evil vermin.  One might ask, “How did they prevent infiltration in the past?”  I will reply by relating a story from when I was a young evangelist years ago.

I was preaching a revival in a small church of about 100 people.  The revival had certainly broken out in the church.  People were coming and being saved, and there were folks being healed.  One night, after the altar call, there was what I can only describe as organized pandemonium in the church building.  All over the sanctuary people were being touched by the power of God, healed, delivered and saved.

A man came in whom I had not seen before.  He certainly had not been in the building during the preaching.  He was going about laying hands on people.  Before I could get to the pastor to ask him about the man, an old lady, with her hair in a bun, absolutely beaming with the presence of the Holy Spirit, walked up to the man.  She had her Bible clutched in her right hand.

She said, “Mister, don’t you know that God’s people know when we’ve got a devil amongst us?”

Then she swung and smacked him in the head with her Bible.  He was stunned, but didn’t move fast enough.  She hit him again.  In fact she hit him several times before he navigated through the crowd, bodies on the floor, and made it out the front door on a dead run.

The point is, churches with godly people committed to God, praying, studying the Bible, and filled with the Holy Spirit, did not get infiltrated.  They recognized the one in whom Satan had an influence through a demon.   There was no soft entry point for them and they could not remain as an attendee.

If there is going to be any purging of a church, or any other sector of Christianity, people will have to get serious about knowing God and being filled with the Holy Spirit.  I’m not saying that I advocate smacking the infiltrator with a Bible.  (I suppose if we advertised that it was how we practiced purging, and they showed up, they ought to be expect to be smacked.)  I am saying that if we are not dedicated enough, filled with the Spirit, so that we cannot even discover many of the truths of God, how are we going to recognize the emissaries of Satan?  We should recognize them, and make it very difficult for them to remain in the meetings.  That is accomplished by people praying, and generating an atmosphere so poignant with the anointing that evil people cannot stay or are completely exposed.

I actually pastored a church (briefly) that had demonic people in leadership that had controlled the church for years.  They had had 20 pastors in 20 years.  The church was a stain in the city.  We are in a very dark and evil period when Christianity is replete with that type of church.  I do not know how some professing Christians and their churches are going to survive.  Many churches, and even some denominations, are in danger of being overthrown by evil people.

It is past time to become a praying person.  There must be no further reliance on a pastor to do everything for you.  The time is past to become strong, mature, and filled with the Holy Spirit.  Either people rise up in the power and might of the Lord God, or they will go down in horrible defeat.  The very continuance of Christianity depends on how well professing Christians understand and react to this truth.  This is not a game!  It is a life or death struggle for the eternal destiny of souls!

So much is going on that it is overwhelming God’s people.  We have to be alert and we cannot be slack in praying.  The secular and religious realms are rapidly approaching critical mass.  We could witness historic and catastrophic events in either realm at any moment.  It would begin a very harsh period that most professing Christians will not survive with their faith intact.  The reason is because they have buried their minds in the world system, willfully apathetic and ignorant.  The reason for that fatal decision is because what they saw and heard was too painful for them.  They realized that to face it, strengthen their faith, and be prepared for what was at the end of the logical road, would cost them loss of comfort, the sense of security, reduce their playtime with the world system, require them to pray, to become more dedicated to God, and it would cost them their spot in the religious bubble of false reality.

These “bubble Christians” dismiss every voice of warning, every bit of eschatological information, and even the urgings of the Holy Spirit, because of the popular sentiment that Christ has exempted America from any severe suffering.  It matters not what ones Rapture position is, there is no doubt that the period entitled “Tribulation” will not just start up out of the clear blue.  Events leading up to that brutal period will themselves be harsh and very demanding.  Most Christians in the rest of the world are already experiencing harsh tribulation.

Consider that just the corporate apathy of millions of Christians is contributing both to the severity of the coming storm and to the rapidity of its arrival.  At the present, outrage is nearly dead because of apathetic Christians.  Like a dying animal, outrage lifts its head and moans when the SCOTUS commits judicial tyranny.  In a few days, all is forgotten.  The process has been repeated after every atrocious misdeed over the past 6 ½ years.  The length of outrage reduced with each manifestation of its pathetic moan.

Apathetic professing Christians are responsible for this disgraceful response to evil, and more.  In an interview with Charisma News about his newest book, “Implosion”, best-selling author Joel C. Rosenberg said, “The American church is so filled with false teaching, heresy, apostasy, entertainment culture, apathy and spiritual drift that I think the No. 1 problem facing America is a weak church.”

Of course, I strongly disagree with throwing the blanket term “church” over all that masquerades as the Body of Christ.  The proper term is Christianity, the religion.  It is impossible for the Church, the Body of Christ, to be heretical and weak.  That said, Rosenberg’s analysis is an understatement.  American Christianity is guilty of all those things plus, homosexuality, adultery, New Age paganism, ecumenism with Roman Catholicism, Islam, Mormonism, and other false religions, leadership-sanctioned wickedness, Seeker, Emergent, and NAR destructions, flagrant witchcraft,  obsession with wealth and malignant materialism, and spiritual rot in its leadership that defies adjectives to fully portray.  Discernment is at its lowest ebb while toleration for evil is peaking.  That “bubble” is going to break.  They will pay a severe price for what they are enjoying now

The question is, “When will the bubble break?”  The answer is, “When events become too vile and brutal to ignore.”  Before that occurs, there will be more deception with greater intensity.  Deception will increase with false prophets whose prophecies will come to pass.  They will prophesy of events, and the events will occur.  They will produce great lying signs and wonders.  They will appear to work miracles, healings, deliverances, and even appear to raise people from the dead.  As a result, professing Christians obsessed with signs and wonders will flock to them.  Many will be led into the state of fatal delusion.

At some point during the implosion in Christianity, the world economy will collapse.  This will be the catalyst for the transition to a global cashless, digital economy.  During the period of transition, everyone will be required to surrender their cash for digital points or lose it.  Cash will be declared as worthless beyond a certain date.

The centralization of economic power will have several effects.  First, it will necessitate a global government led by a panel of individuals, and eventually, a one-world leader.  The United States will surrender its sovereignty as will every other nation.  Our democracy and Constitution will be replaced by a global socialist government.  Our flag will be replaced by a one-world flag.  The president will become a subordinate of the Global government with no limit to the term of office.  Guns will be confiscated.  Anyone not complying will be severally penalized economically and otherwise.  Everyone will be required to pledge support to the global government.

Christianity will be made illegal as a stand-alone religion.  There will be a global religion consisting of a merger of all religions.  The False Prophet will eventually become the leader.

The next step will be the effort toward world peace.  Conflict between nations will cease.  The world leader will determine that Israel is the last remaining obstacle to world peace.  Israel will reject their demands to pacify Muslims.  The Global government will bring all of its force against Israel to force it under submission.  I believe everyone knows how that will end.

This is not a time to live in a bubble.  It is not a period when one can afford any measure of apathy.  The “bubble” will break and harshness will overwhelm everyone inside.  It will be very difficult if not impossible to stand at that point.  The time to prepare is long past, but it’s not too late.  The first step is to wake up and accept truth.  One day the heavens will fall silent except for two witnesses.  There will be no further warnings.  One must hear and react while there is time.  No amount of weeping and regret will change the situation when the door to heaven slams shut.