{"id":2364,"date":"2024-09-14T17:15:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T17:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2024-09-15T04:06:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T04:06:03","slug":"it-is-time-to-pull-back-the-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/?p=2364","title":{"rendered":"It is Time to Pull Back the Curtain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The time has come to explain why our nation is in such a deadly dilemma. It cannot be blamed solely on Republican leadership or the scurrilous deviousness of the Democrats. How you vote does not matter\u2014our nation will not survive either president\u2019s leadership. Before I offer my opinion of the outcome, we must note why we arrived at this historical point.<\/p>\n<p>The lion&#8217;s share of the blame is on Christianity. \u201cAs goes Christianity, so goes the world.\u201d (The Church, Body of Christ, is not Christianity, the religion. Professing Christians who are carnal, worldly-centered, and unfaithful compose apostate Christianity. It is an egregious error to call Christianity \u201cthe Church.\u201d It falsely accuses true Christ followers of apostasy.)<\/p>\n<p>To be brief, the apostasy in Christianity ramped up dramatically about the middle of the last century. It never slowed down its push to evict faithful Christ followers as legalistic, self-righteous Pharisees. Entertainment and positive \u201cpreaching\u201d took deep root. The Holy Spirit is currently identified as adrenaline. Anything or anyone in the meetings that causes adrenaline to flow is considered anointed. I could go on until this paragraph became a book. The result is church meetings morphed into flesh-pleasing entertainment and pulpitering that robs the soul. God is left out of the meetings, and the hearts of the people who attend become dull and distant from God.<!--more--><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The bottom line needs to be clear. The cause of the great apostasy in Christianity is religious heresy and selfishness. By selfishness, I am not referring to egocentrism, which disregards the needs of others. I mean selfishness, which views God as only concerned with supplying our wants and making us happy and content. The god of apostate Christianity is not God Almighty as the Scriptures and godly people describe Him. He is not our servant, a Genie in the sky anxiously awaiting our requests for His services. He is God Almighty, a consuming fire, and He had better be approached with that in mind.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, God damns the \u201cWord of Faith\u201d heresy, the heresy infested Charismatic Movement, the New Apostolic Reformation, and numerous preachers, pastors, evangelists, apostles, prophets, prophetesses, seers, denominational leaders, hirelings, and other charlatans and heretics. They portray Him as subservient and susceptible to being ordered about by their beck and call (2 Thess. 2:10-12). If that does not bother people who are guilty of following and supporting such emissaries of Satan, I missed the target. I aimed to pierce their hearts, trouble their minds, pull back the curtain, and reveal the diabolical and deceptive magic at work.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is not a game\u2014it\u2019s a shame! Witnessing the gradual spiritual decay for over five decades, godliness replaced with meism, and preachers gurgling with self-promotion as Satan\u2019s emissaries, does not compel me to pray for American Christianity\u2019s protection from the consequences. It reminds me of the following verse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?\u201d \u2014 Jeremiah 5:31<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The answer today would be, \u201cVote!\u201d How about turn from your wicked ways? Why not humble yourself until you can face God and repent?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This very day and every day that follows, millions of professing Christians continue to rejoice in the spiritual degradation that brought our nation to this predicament. Their choice in the election is like the choice between a televangelist promoting Contemplative Prayer and another one supporting \u201cChristian\u201d yoga. Will there be a lesser of two evils when Beast One and Beast Two arrive (Revelation 13)?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I intend to be as clear as possible. Don\u2019t blame Donald Trump for the political mess. Likewise, the Democrats are not to be blamed. If you leave the gate open and the deer or cattle eat your garden, don\u2019t blame the deer or the cattle.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> Blame the gatekeeper. Christians are supposed to be the nation&#8217;s gatekeepers by praying, living godly, and being examples and influences to the secular world. Christianity has not held back the flood of wickedness because professing Christians were too busy reaping God&#8217;s blessings, or so they thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Turn around, find a mirror, look at your image, and ask, \u201cHave I been fully surrendered to God, faithful in praying, and obedient to His will?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How I weep as I write this! Few people will read it\u2014many will condemn it. Professing Christians go about in spiritual rags that were once white linen. They pray like pagans and whine like spoiled brats about the danger of creeping despotism. But they refuse to repent and return to God. They post memes on social media asking God to \u201cheal our land,\u201d but our nation is not sick\u2014it is wicked and rebellious to its core. There is no restoration without repentance. The ones requesting prayer for the nation\u2019s healing use prayer as a talisman.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I believe God&#8217;s Remnant realizes we have reached a critical eschatological period. If Harris wins, persecution of Christians will begin. Democracy will be replaced with a government system that eliminates voting. Under the banner of &#8220;world peace and unity,&#8221; our nation may join the other countries to form a one-world government.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If Trump wins, Christendom will cause the final surge of apostasy in Christianity. We will likely witness Protestant ecumenism with Roman Catholicism. Pagan religions will soon join. God\u2019s Remnant will be harassed and then persecuted for refusing to join the monstrosity of One World Religion. Choosing for evil one or two is choosing which of those two scenarios is most desirable.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We knew the last days would, upon some generations, arrive. Predictably, those generations would deny that period arrived and search for ways to force-shift it onto the next generations. Many individuals are apathetic because they believe God will snatch them from the earth before violent persecution begins. Unspeakable persecution of God\u2019s people has been occurring around the world for a long period. The \u201cescape\u201d by millions of Believers was death. We are warned by Christ and the Apostles, Paul and Peter, to be prepared to endure to the end.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I plead from the depth of my soul\u2014pray. Pray fervently, faithfully, and fastidiously for strength to endure. More people will enter hell because of apostasy than persecution. Persecution has always made Christianity more faithful and strong. As political sabers rattle, may our prayers like incense reach God\u2019s throne.<\/p>\n<p>I close by saying to the religious ones, you may ignore me and vote however you wish. You may hurl insults at people who warn you. Your bullying will include falsely accusing them of supporting secular wickedness instead of supporting religious apostasy. The truth remains that believing in a political savior when you have rejected the Lordship of Christ will not exempt you from prophetic fulfillment.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why wouldn\u2019t they ignore the truth when, in self-delusion, they have ignored God? I am reminded of the following passage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God, to help us and to fight our battles.\u201d \u2014 2 Chronicles 32:8<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time has come to explain why our nation is in such a deadly dilemma. It cannot be blamed solely on Republican leadership or the scurrilous deviousness of the Democrats. How you vote does not matter\u2014our nation will not survive either president\u2019s leadership. 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