THE FALLING AWAY PREDICTED BY JESUS IN “THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS”.
Is the prevailing music in assemblies and their broadcasts the music of Baal?
Have the tried and trusted sources of the Gospel unwittingly become Ichabod like Shiloh of old?
Has the remnant, the elect, grown weary, hungry, and de-motivated and finally lost contact with the Great Shepherd of the sheep?
Once there was one lost sheep absent with 99 safely in the fold. But now more typically there are 99 astray and one left in the fold.
Do the ninety and nine realize the danger of the devil’s thicket in which they are caught? Could they possibly be unaware that the thorns of the thicket grow prolifically by the worldly spell of Baal’s cacophonous and stentorian melodies?
What of the isolated ones who refuse to go the way of wandering sheep and reject the abhorrent sounds they hear? Do they long to hear again the still, small, voice of their Saviour in the quietude of yesteryear?
In their dilemma would they rather read the Word at home than hear their pulpiteer’s feigned sermons? These pontificating prophets were well described by Isaiah and Ezekiel?
(Ezekiel 13: 3-22 excerpts)
1) 3 Thus says the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! …
2) 6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The Lord says: and the Lord hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word…
3) 7Have you not spoken a lying divination, whereas you say, The Lord said it; albeit I have not spoken?
4) 10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace;
5) 17 Likewise,…the daughters of your people, which prophesy out of their own heart,
6) 22 Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad…and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
Article: John David
Quotations: King James Version of Holy Bible (Public Domain).
