Apostasy; 2023

Apostasy, 2023

It's not as though this is something new, but in our present era of life the very pronouncement of the tenets this phenomenon is creating has changed the permanence of society and our religion is tumbling out of control.

When Moses became delayed with God on the mountain, the Israeli nation grew tired of waiting for his return, so they decided to find a new way to worship.  “So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron, who accepted their offering, and fashioning this gold with a graving tool, made a molten calf.  Then they cried out, “This is your God, O Israel, who brought you out of Egypt.”  On seeing this. Aaron built an altar before the calf and proclaimed, “tomorrow is a feast day of the Lord.”  Early the next day the people offered holocausts and brought peace offerings.  Then they sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.  (Ex 32: 3 - 6).

Sound familiar?  The population of the Church today is in the same corruptible situation.  Many people have decided to look elsewhere for worship.  It isn’t other church affiliates they are embracing, it is the attraction of power related entities that is making its way into the hearts and money of once God-fearing advocates.  It is who has the best homes, the largest automobiles, and the fast evolving sports arenas for their now very active children who have more time to engage in competition in lieu of God and the Sacraments of the Church.

Participation of young people engaging in these sports is not a problem, but the time element involved. The message being sent to our children is that the church has become an afterthought and at a later time when their maturity reaches a level of decision responding to the question becomes, “who is this person we should call God, and what does he have to do with our growing into adulthood?”  

As soon as the parents of these questioning grown children need to answer their inquisitiveness they must also need to step back from their golf games, the tea parties, and the many social events that have become their own allegiance of new worship.  What has occurred in the Woke generation and the social control it has stepped up within the socialist existence is reaching the top of a ladder to success where each person will fall off at the last rung.  

The mark of the beast, They see an apostate church  that changed God’s law, preferred pagan traditions, allowed beliefs and ceremonies into the church, and brought oppression against and persecuted the true believers throughout the Dark Ages for 1260 years as prophesied in Revelation 12: 6, 14-16.  

If any of us is looking at these predictions through rose-colored glasses they are wearing the wrong viewing mechanisms.  Each day we can view the influx of political adversaries with only one goal in mind, the eventual introduction of Socialism which will most definitely introduce us to Marxism.  This will become a government-controlled system where no one will be able to change its influence on freedoms.  Apostasy taking us away from the truth of God will be our Mantra and the end will not be too far from the Parousia;  the return of Christ

Ralph B. Hathaway