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A lot of these things you've heard discussed in the past. But he will be against Christ and all who belong to him and he will persecute Israel in the middle of Daniel's 70th week and so forth. We know biblically that he will come about eventually, and he will pretend to be the answer for all of man's problems he will offer himself as Israel's savior, a counterfeit Messiah, that will make a phony treaty with Israel, according to Daniel 9:27. The 'man of lawlessness' according to Second Thessalonians two.

The world is being prepared for the rule of the Antichrist. This is all part of God's judgment on America. Well, none of this surprises any serious student of the Bible. And sadly, many gullible Christians of all political stripes, even pastors, are falling victim to the Marxist goal of an atheist utopia. They must destroy the nuclear family, they must destroy capitalism, and on and on it goes. And ultimately, what they must do is eradicate genuine Biblical Christianity, because that cannot coexist with a socialist state. Like never before a violent storm of persecution against authentic Christianity is gaining strength across the globe.' And indeed, we've seen the failed policies of the progressive Marxist agenda continue to divide our country and gullible people are sucked into all that they're trying to do. Only the most naive, undiscerning and biblically illiterate Christians can deny this. And without question, the Church of Jesus Christ is under siege. The very foundations of basic civility and common sense are being shaken. The fierce winds of deception are pummeling all that God deems righteous. As I have written elsewhere, 'An evil cloud of satanic darkness encompasses the world today. I'm not going to take time to get into all of it, but it is satanic to its very core. For the broad mass of the people, and the primitive simplicity of its heart, more readily falls victim to a big lie than a small one.' End quote.įrankly, the whole lie of the woke agenda is more evil than you can even begin to imagine. And frankly, it reminds me of Hitler's commitment to deceptive propaganda, as stated in Mein Kampf where he said, quote, 'The skillful and unrelenting use of propaganda can persuade people that heaven is hell. We're lied to about illegal immigration and the implications of all of that. We're lied to about the benefits of gender affirming treatments and procedures. We're being fed lies about systemic racism and gender identity, and orientation. We're continually being lied to about global warming. We've been lied to about the whole COVID pandemic, and the efficacy of the vaccines and all of those types of things.

We have been lied to about the health of our economy. Our educators deny God as the Creator and teach our children that we are really nothing more than sophisticated germs, the result of random selection, all part of evolutionary theory. I was reading the other day that we now have approximately 50 special days set aside to celebrate the vile perversions of the LGBTQ mafia. Murderers of unborn infants unimaginably and grossly immoral. We're now being governed by people who have no fear of God in their eyes, they are corrupt and greedy and violent. We're watching the wrath of divine abandonment play out as we read, for example, in Romans one. To be sure, we're witnessing the self-induced destruction of what was once the most powerful nation in the history of the world. In fact, Jesus describes hell in Matthew 8:12 as ''outer darkness in that place, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.''And we are witnessing today in our country the sunset of truth, and the onset of darkness a foretaste of hell, frankly, an eternal existence apart from the presence of God. And frankly, that's how most people live spiritually. Literally, when you're in the dark, you don't know where you're going. And intellectually, we all know what it's like to be in the dark, both literally and figuratively. Likewise, the absence of truth is darkness, spiritually. The Psalmist tells us, for example, in Psalm 119:105, that 'Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.' And Jesus said in John 8:12, ''I am the Light of the world he who follows Me will not walk in darkness but will have the Light of life.'' And indeed, the absence of light is darkness. It's fascinating in Scripture, how light is used as a metaphor for truth. So will you turn to Mark chapter 13, as we look at part two of a series that I'm doing from this passage of Scripture, entitled 'Jesus Prophetic Discourse on the End of the Age.' A few thoughts before we read the passage and begin to examine it closely. After taking a break, for Resurrection Sunday, we now return once again to our verse-by-verse study of Mark's gospel.

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