The following postings will prove that God is no longer a major player in church, national and global life. His name is dropped occasionally in order to remain en vogue locally, nationally and internationally. Today it is virtually impossible to distinguish between the churched and the unchurched. Let us see why.

I recently read the results of a British YouGov Christian poll that found that approximately half of that nation’s church members believe that the first four of the Ten Commandments are no longer relevant to the church and need not be obeyed. Yet these are the commandments that deal with man’s love for God. The other six commandments involve man’s love for his fellow man. Obviously, English church people value their relationships with their fellow citizens more than their relationship with the Creator of mankind. This is an interesting concept, one that explains why the nation is rapidly sliding toward third world status. I have noted that the world and the church are trodding the same path. The following is an excellent example of this truth.

An example of how the church and the society are interlocked is found in a Daily Mail article which revealed that Britain’s  National Health Services refers on average 50 children each week to transgender clinics because they (the children) believe they were born the wrong sex. The medical community routinely pressures them to undergo transgender (transsexual) operations. First homosexuality swept through the English society as the latest politically correct craze and was quickly embraced by the church as “the will of God.” Now children will be “going under the knife” to rearrange their genitals, etc. as another of Satan’s tricks becomes THE thing to do. Look for the church to see the light and come out in favor of the latest craze.

Not to be left behind in the Political Correctness craze, the United States has produced a generation of God-rejecters. Recently the Pew Research Center reported that 56% of American adults surveyed said that it is not necessary to believe in God to be moral and have good values. This begs the question: If people do not believe in God as a guide to rightness and truth, in what do they believe? Pew research has found that WITCHCRAFT and ASTROLOGY are now the guiding lights for the majority of American adults. Another publication found that millennials (ages 18-29) are embracing the occult as belief in the Biblical God dwindles. As a result, the psychic services industry is now a $2 billion a year industry.

An examination of church doctrines and practices world-wide reveals  that the British and the Americans are not alone in their slide into Satan’s spiritual abyss. In her quest to maintain social relevancy, the global church has adopted the teachings and practices of men and discarded the doctrines of God, thereby discarding God Himself, which is exactly what Jesus Christ prophesied would happen in Luke 10:17. Those who came before Him had faced the same problem. In Matthew 15:7-9 we find Him describing the religionists of His day: “You hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy about you saying, ‘These people (of Isaiah’s day) draw near to Me with their mouth and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, REJECTING MY DOCTRINES AND TEACHING THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN.'” Nothing had changed by the time of Christ’s earthly tenure. The same attitude rules the religious world today. God’s ministers have faced the same problems in all ages. Note that church people actually worship and honor God. But it is all in vain because they obey the teachings of the devil’s false prophets. Nothing has changed, except that today false saints wear crosses around their necks, attach fish symbols to their cars, have Bibles on their shelves and spread their spiritual poison world-wide through television, the internet, etc. In the final days of the era, no one is beyond Satan’s reach. L.J.