Over the past few days, the \u201cprophets\u201d are at it again, prophesying great things for 2016.\u00a0 They have completely ignored the failure of their prophecies for last year.\u00a0 There was a substantial degradation of Christianity and significant advancement of evil in society in 2015.\u00a0 The \u201cblood moons\u201d prophecies were a flop. \u00a0In the degradation department, Hillsong Church\u2019s (London) Christmas program won top ranking for blasphemy, especially their rendition of Silent Night.<\/p>\n
Therefore, it is essential to ignore the prophets that are prophesying peace, miracles, prosperity, and a great end-time revival for 2016.\u00a0 They are lying prophets who have no connection to God.\u00a0 If they were true prophets, they would be warning the people.\u00a0 To counter their pompous prophecies, I am compelled by the Holy Spirit to write about what to expect in 2016.<\/p>\n
On January 2, 2015, I wrote, \u201cWhat to Expect in 2015\u201d.\u00a0 Here are some abbreviated highlights.\u00a0 I will submit to the reader(s) to judge the accuracy of my statements.<\/p>\n
It was brutally stressful last year, but 2016 will provide a dramatic increase in stress.\u00a0 It will be a pivotal round in the great fight of faith.\u00a0 Most Christians who are praying faithfully do not need me to warn them about that.\u00a0 They know by the Holy Spirit that our nation has passed an equinox between light and darkness.\u00a0 A couple of years ago I wrote that the religious and secular systems were headed toward convergence.\u00a0 That was not a particularly astute observation.\u00a0 It was and is clear that it must occur.\u00a0 However, the realms are now precariously near a communal station.<\/p>\n
Consider that all religions are drifting toward ecumenism.\u00a0 Concurrently, factions of the world system are conglomerating.\u00a0 They are centering on peace, social and financial equality, sexual orientation, and world unity. \u00a0For the convergence to occur, the Constitutional rights of United States citizens, especially Christians, must be oppressed or removed. \u00a0That will be accomplished by catastrophic distortions of law and justice.\u00a0 Consequently, there are not enough light-reflecting Christians to equipoise such a rabid intrusiveness by apostates and the godless world system.<\/p>\n
The reality is that our society is grievously infected by radical paradigm shifts in both sectors, decades in the making.\u00a0 A depressing fact is that a significant number of people desire it to be so, or are deceived that it is the right direction.\u00a0 A new \u201clow\u201d was reached with the intrinsically evil and abusive SCOTUS same-sex marriage ruling legalizing perversion, bashing Christianity, and subverting the Constitution.\u00a0 Outrage ensued, but the evil advance was not rebuffed.\u00a0 The \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d riots, inflamed by the rhetoric of our President and Attorney General, set America\u2019s race relations back many decades. \u00a0They could have set the stage for a nationwide racial war.\u00a0 Pusillanimous politicians and pastors hid behind neutral rhetoric, while the liberal news media controlled the narrative.<\/p>\n
Consider the contrast.\u00a0 Millions of Christians did not rise in protest of the SCOTUS ruling, but illegal mobs violently protested the death of a criminal. \u00a0Now something worse is coming.<\/p>\n
First, if America elects another malevolent president, it will be over.\u00a0 There will be no rebound from that choice.\u00a0 The ramifications are too many to list.\u00a0 Suffice it to say that such a decision will unleash a literal demonic authority that will attack and liquidate this nation\u2019s religious and conservative civil liberties.\u00a0 This nation is ripe for despotism.\u00a0 There is blood in the water.\u00a0 Evil forces are swarming to take advantage.\u00a0 We need a benevolent and strong leader with Judeo-Christian values.<\/p>\n
That stated, it is essential to realize that even a godly leader cannot stop or roll back the diabolical gains in secular and religious sectors.\u00a0 For that to occur, professing Christians must repent and reject their contemplative mystics.\u00a0 Heretics and incorrigible publishing companies must repent and retract their dangerous literature. \u00a0Megachurches and their hireling pastors must repent and refrain from their sacrilegious, salacious, and cavalier behavior, etc.<\/p>\n
Likewise, secular society must move the standard of tolerance for Christianity back to a pre-Obama era.\u00a0 They must reset the bar for morality, scale back their vulgarity and sexual content on television.\u00a0 The maniacal liberal groups must settle back into a position of accepting societal mores of the last century, etc.\u00a0 Does anyone believe that will occur with the election of a conservative president?<\/p>\n
All a conservative president means is that Christians will have a few more years to return to what they have abandoned.\u00a0 If the Christian faction in this nation does not return to prayer, to a passionate surrender to God, and to a focus on His will and kingdom, the declination in society will continue.\u00a0 Eventually, there will be a rupture in the remaining thin membrane of resistance.\u00a0 What that means is that for many professing Christians wallowing in prodigious hypocrisy, it will become too taxing to continue resisting in the war.\u00a0 They will surrender to the apostate union with the world spirit.<\/p>\n
Thus, 2016 will be a pivotal year.\u00a0 Politicians and conservative television and radio pundits will not save us.\u00a0 We can’t vote or buy our way out of this critical predicament.\u00a0 This catastrophic disorder is the result of prayerless, uncommitted, materialistic, fun-addicted, spiritually lackadaisical, heresy-loving, professing Christians having traded the biblical concept of God for a contemporary \u201cgolden calf\u201d. \u00a0I pray that their muddled minds will be opened to the truth that our nation is in digression, not progression.\u00a0 We are heading into<\/em><\/strong> darkness, not out of it. \u00a0\u201cBetter\u201d cannot be in any prognostication for our future, but only \u201cworse\u201d.<\/p>\n We will fight a tremendous year-long battle in 2016.\u00a0 It must be fought clothed in the whole armor of God, standing with the sword of the Spirit drawn, and praying with all supplications.\u00a0 Anyone who thinks he or she knows a better way has not grasped the biblical concept of the full duty of humanity to God.\u00a0 It is not just about winning, but how we fight this battle.\u00a0 It is about returning to God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength, fully loving Him and His Savior Christ Jesus.\u00a0 If that is not the purpose for why we fight, what then binds and compels God to continue our democracy?\u00a0 Shall He do so that we can continue to ignore Him, dance with the world system, frolic in its pools of carnality, and sip its apostate pleasure cocktails?<\/p>\n It is time for the harlot church to discard its defiled rags, to repent, and return to the grace and mercy of God.\u00a0 It is not too late for backsliders to return to God, to put on a robe of righteousness, get oil for their lamps, and be ready for the Bridegroom.\u00a0 However, time is quickly running out.\u00a0 Soon there will be no more warnings, but only mourning and tears over rejected conviction and missed opportunities.\u00a0 In fact, this may be the last call to repentance some people will read.<\/p>\n The burden against Dumah.\u00a0 He calls to me out of Seir, \u201cWatchman, what of the night?\u00a0 Watchman, what of the night?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The watchman said, \u201cThe morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; Return! 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