Apostasy: Absolute Proof That Jesus Christ Is Soon To Appear

It is an overwhelming experience to look at the “apostasy” in the House of God.

Churches that were bedrock on the Rock are falling into deception like flies. Isaiah described this very hour perfectly. “In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.” (Isaiah 59:13-15) Truth, God’s infallible truth, is lying in the streets.

I began this message with several points to preach about but never got beyond this crucial matter. When the Bible talks about “apostasy” the Holy Ghost is never talking to the world. It is only the church to whom He speaks. And it can only be a church that knows the truth and then turns away. Churches that have no truth in them cannot apostasize. Ministers who were once men of God and full of the Spirit but now are all a show have become apostates. Churches where the Holy Spirit convicted sinners and made saints out of them but are now barren of true transformation have apostasized.

Let’s start with our Bible. The new attitude is that the word absolute or infallible is said to apply only to the original autograph. Now we must search through many different texts to imagine we have made right choices. Fallible men are helpless to discover truth in this fashion. This is why God said He would preserve His Word and warned us to never change one word. I was saved and taught the doctrines of the Bible by a church fellowship that had an infallible Bible. After sixty-two years of serving the Lord and wearing out about one dozen Bibles, I have not changed one great doctrine I was taught. I can say with conviction that my Bible does not contain a single error.

I just read where a noted writer and radio minister said “There is not one single Bible that does not contain errors in the text.” Look at what that ministry is doing to the people that follow him. Look at the numbers of different opinions concerning the End Times, the Rapture, the antiChrist, and every major doctrine of eschatology. I remember when prophesy was simple and plain and everybody trembled just to hear the truths again and again. Now the best way to have a church split is to have a prophecy conference.

The New International Version is absolute heresy. Yet it is the best seller of all Bibles. I have studied its text extensively, and it is nothing but a commentary from mostly apostate, so-called scholars. Look at this text for a lesson in error. Luke spoke of the young lad Jesus and said, “A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. And Joseph and his mother marveled at those things which were spoken of him.” (Luke 2:32-33 KJV) That is the authorized text. Now look at the apostate text: “a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel. The child’s father and mother marveled at what was said about him.” (Luke 2:32-33 NIV) Is it possible to be more apostate? Joseph was not the father of our Lord.

It was Apostle Paul the Holy Ghost used to warn us of this great apostasy we are witnessing. The New Testament church was so expectant of the Lord’s return during its lifetime that they grieved over saints that had died. The return of Christ for His Bride was an imminent matter to them. The Spirit spoke, “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” (II Thessalonians 2:1-4) This is clear proof that the early church was Pre-Tribulational in doctrine.

There were two things that the Spirit said had to happen before the church would be “gathered together unto Him.” One was the “falling away” or the Greek word “apostasy.” The church was going to “turn from the truth” before the Lord would come. Number two: there would be a manifestation of the “fog of the antiChrist.” His deceiving presence would become so evident that his spirit would control the world’s quick slide into deception. Notice I use the term “fog of the antiChrist.” Some Bible teachers have used this scripture to teach a mid or pre-wrath rapture. The revelation of the antiChrist comes in two phases.

First, his coming is hidden in a deceiving fog of spiritual deception. He is everywhere visibly but nowhere bodily. His evil presence is so overwhelming and dominant yet completely hidden from all but a very small remnant. You can see him in the shadows but you cannot get the lukewarm church to look and listen. They are blinded by the spirit of apostasy. This is a perfect picture of our church world.

Apostasy is a powerful form of deception. There are many ways that the unspiritual church is blinded by this darkness. If you study the present church world you will see this deceiving mindset everywhere. It is seen in the sin-friendly church, the relevant church without absolutes, the positive idea that denies all negatives, and many other thoughts that sound so beautiful. Nothing is more impossible for most churches to resist as the new music. The devil and his antiChrist spirit have been successful in presenting a false harlot church as the true movement of end time religion.

The Apostle John saw this great deception in a vision and marveled at its beauty. He was rebuked for his blindness. Why do we expect a different picture today. If the great Apostle John marveled then only God can protect you and me from what is occurring. An angel rebuked John and John described the truth of this event: “And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.” (Revelation 17:6-7) What a powerful warning for us today.

I am watching and hearing almost every day about another great man or woman or another great church of the past that has fallen into the trap. You will find that the music is usually the first standard to fall. How and what you worship and sing about will decide your theology in a very short time. If your music is generic and absent of absolutes from the Bible, your doctrine will fall in line with your music. I will never forget hearing the music minster at the Pensacola church say to the pastor right in the middle of worship, “Pastor, you could sing these songs to a lover that we are singing in church.” This represents what wrong music does to a worshipping people.

The great text in II Thessalonians chapter two continues to show a perfect picture of the antiChrist spirit that we are witnessing. When the rapture occurs, then the antiChrist beast will appear out of the fog and will rule the world for seven years. John said it very carefully, “And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” (II Thessalonians 2:8-12) The church is presently having great pleasure in unrighteousness but the end is near.

Conclusion

You and I have a short space, days or maybe longer, to carefully live in the fire of the Holy Spirit and the truth of the Word of God. John saw this false facade of religion and warned us that this harlot system would be spued out of His mouth: “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” (Revelation 3:15-16) Most of the present church world is totally unprepared for the rapture.

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7 thoughts on “Apostasy: Absolute Proof That Jesus Christ Is Soon To Appear”

  1. Dave

    Regarding your criticism of Luke 2:32-33 in the NIV, I checked the Greek.

    The word father is definitely in the Greek.

    So the NIV is closer to the original text than the KJV.

    It sounds like you prefer a translation that says what you want it to say, rather than an accurate translation.

  2. Barry

    Hello,been sometime since I’ve written u Joseph,I c u r still preaching the truth and I know it is the truth beacuse I have a wittness in my spirit that it is the truth of God’s word.I am shaken beacuse of what is coming,I was confused about the rapture but thank God I am not anymore.Please pray for my family that we will all be found worthy to be caught away when the Lord comes in the air.Pray especially for our oldest daughter Allyson and her 2 yr. old daughter Michaela Grace,as well as our oldest son Adam,youngest son Nathaniel,we also have 2 other daughters Lindsay and Kristi,Karen is my wife’s name.God is at work in our family,I beleive that it is his mercy beacuse of the time we find ourselves in.The master of the vineyard is about to come. Thank you!God bless you!

  4. Joseph Saraceno

    That’s why, at the Vatican II council they came out with the American Bible.
    This was supposed to be the First step to a world Bible for all the Major religions.
    The Jews would replace Jehovah with Lord, the Muslims would replace Ali with Lord.
    In the American Bibles and other English speaking new one’s they took out Isiah’s
    prophecy of A virgin shall conceive and replaced it with a young women is with child.
    This makes Jesus just another prophet. Done to compromise with the Jews and Muslims.
    Jesus cannot come back until this secular liberal democracy and inter-faith pluralistic
    Gospel spread through out the world. All religions will join with Rome. The biggest hold
    out right now is the Russian Orthodox Church. Also Jerusalem should become the center
    for all the religions soon.The Papacy could move there. We still have a few years left.

  7. Chris

    Thank you for speaking truth into the world. Two notes:
    1. Can you provide insight into the Septuagint and why it should be secondary to the reading in the KJV and received texts?
    2. The concept that Daniel’s 70th week (a full seven years) is completely left to be fulfilled is certainly controversial. Matthew Henry and others in the early church believed the “He” in Daniel 9:27 to be refering to Jesus himself, rather than “the Prince to Come”. It wasn’t until recently when the full “7 years left” teaching became popular. In the alternate pattern, the week began at Jesus’s baptism, he was cut off “in the midst of the week” at his crucifixion, leaving 3.5 or so years yet to be fulfilled in the future. Not a salvation issue, but let us be humble, teachable, filled with grace and peace,and “ready always”.