2 Timothy 3:13 “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.”
In the last days, (and I do not doubt that we are
in the last days), the world shall wax worse and worse. People who claim
that the world is a good place and claim that things could get better have been
deceived. God has ordained evil times, and those evil times are here today. The
Tribulation Period is closing in and as they do the world becomes more and more
evil. People are deceived by deceivers and as the days pass the seducers will
wax worse and worse. It will not stop, the end to it is when Jesus Christ
returns to sit on King Davids earthly throne. The deceivers will also get
deceived by the other deceivers and they too shall be deceived. A seducer is
defined as a wizard who is also defined as one who is a master in fairy tales.
This is the world we now live in; it is a time where people are living in a
lie, the lie of Satan. As Christians we must remain faithful to God and His
doctrine, we cannot allow ourselves to be unfaithful. We know in the end that
only a few will remain faithful until the end because said there shall be a
falling away. “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;” 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Before the Anti-Christ shall
come there shall be a falling away first, that falling away will be by
deception, or being deceived by the deceivers. People, that includes many
Christians and churches shall turn away from the Truth and follow doctrine of
deception. “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having
itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be
turned unto fables. 2 Timothy 4:3 – 4 The time of the falling away is here,
it is happening today, and it is spreading through social media like fire. Many
Christians and even churches have fallen into the deception and have no idea
that they have fallen for the lies of Satan. What about those remaining
faithful to God, the churches, and the true doctrine? We shall suffer loss, God
said, “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution.” 2 Timothy 3:12 I do not believe that word “shall” is a “maybe”
but rather a promise from God who cannot lie. Both the churches and the
membership will suffer persecution because we “live godly in Christ Jesus”. God’s
people have always suffered at the hands of the great deceiver Satan ever since
the fall. Look at Able, he suffered and was murdered because of his
righteousness. Millions died martyr’s deaths because they refused to surrender
to the lies of Satan. And here in the 21st Century we too shall
suffer at the hands of Satan just as Jesus Christ did. Churches have suffered
since Jesus began the first church at Jerusalem during His earthly ministry.
Almost all His Apostles died horrible deaths as martyrs. And this persecution
continued through time and here we are today still suffering through the
deception of Satan. Christian we are not safe, God has not promised us safety
but instead His promise for us is persecution. Just as Judas betrayed the Lord
Jesus and those believers with Him, other Christians, whether true of imitation
Christians can and will betray those “that will live godly in Christ Jesus”,
and living godly is living in the Truth of God’s word. Beloved, do not be
deceived, the persecution will get worse and worse because God said it would.
We all need to be in much prayer, not only for our own but for all Christians
and churches.
