A One World Religion

Since the advent of Darwinism in the 19^th century, belief in God and the influence of religion have steadily declined in the western world. Many believe that secularism will become the prevailing belief system of the future with faith and religion being relegated to the ash heap of outdated superstition and mythology.

However, biblical prophecy reveals that religion and belief in the supernatural will not only make a significant comeback in the last days, but that a one-world religion will arise that will be heavily based upon supernatural phenomena that science will not be able to explain away. Nearly 2,000 years ago, the apostle Paul wrote this concerning the end-times: “The coming of the lawless one (Antichrist) will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing.” (2Thessalonians 2:9-10)

Here’s how Jesus described the last days on earth directly preceding his return: “For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible.” (Matthew 24:24) And in his first letter to fellow apostle Timothy, Paul offered this caveat concerning the end-times: “The (Holy) Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.” (1Timothy 4:1)

With Christianity’s influence all but dead in much of Europe and in steep decline in North America, how will this new form of experiential religion emerge amidst the prevailing agnosticism and atheism that dominates the western landscape? The answer is both profound and yet simple; human beings have a deep desire to understand the unknown and fathom mysteries. Since they’re created in the image of God rather than merely the end products of random evolutionary forces, they have an innate desire to know and understand God. However, because of sin, man has become spiritually blind to God and cut off from a relationship with him. And because God’s laws are written on the hearts of all men (Romans 2:15) they are convicted and condemned by their consciences because of their sins.

God provided the antidote for sin and the path to restoration and fellowship with him through Christ’s death on Calvary’s cross and his resurrection from the dead. The apostle John wrote: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16) Unfortunately, much of Christendom has forgotten that salvation is a free gift from God and instead has set up a perverted system of works-righteousness that is heavily dependent upon adherence to rituals, customs, traditions and religious holidays. That perversion of God’s grace has produced confusion and doubt in the minds of Christians who have no assurance of eternal life through this manmade system that was condemned by the early apostles such as Paul as a phony gospel that promoted a phony Christ. (2Corinthians 11:4)

And so, the dead religiosity of counterfeit Christianity that the Bible warned against spread and eventually sowed the seeds of agnosticism and atheism in those who saw no meaning or purpose in lifeless and hackneyed religious rituals. The logical response to all this dead religion produced the Age of Enlightenment and the French Revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that in turn encouraged Charles Darwin to pen his dubious theory in the nineteenth century of the origins of physical life sans a creator God. Darwin’s theory of evolution, which has been taught as evidential science for nearly a century, became the catalyst for the moral collapse of western civilization in the twentieth century.

And that moral collapse produced a counter-response in many through their desire to find meaning and purpose in life amidst the chaos and hopelessness that Darwinism inevitably produced. While many were turned off by dead, organized religion, a new form of “Christianity” sprang up as that counter-response in the early twentieth century in the form of experiential supernaturalism that manifested through miraculous signs and wonders. From William Seymour’s Azusa Street Revival that began in Los Angeles in the early 1900’s to William Branham’s Latter Rain Movement in the 1930’s that later became the Kansas City Revival, supernaturalism was in and organized religion with its dead liturgical customs and rituals was out.

Unfortunately, the burgeoning Signs and Wonders Movement that has used biblical Christianity as a cover for witchcraft and pagan occult practices, has become the prophetic fulfillment of Jesus’ and Paul’s warnings concerning the rise of counterfeit spirituality in the last days. How so? Because the Signs and Wonders Movement has manufactured its own gospel that bases eternal life on one’s ability to manifest a supernatural “gift” such as speaking in tongues or healing the sick. The logic of this counterfeit gospel claims that if one is endowed with the Holy Spirit, then one will perform miracles through the Holy Spirit’s indwelling presence. Without the Spirit’s presence, there can be no miracles, and hence, according to this strange gospel, no salvation.

Despite the Bible’s prophetic warnings concerning this counterfeit spirituality that hides behind a Christian veneer, many well-meaning but biblically illiterate Christians as well as many others have embraced this demonic movement. And the Roman Catholic Church, once a bastion of dead works-righteousness religion has climbed on the bandwagon with her promotion of Marian apparitions, Eucharistic miracles and the practice of exorcisms that were once performed in strict secrecy. In fact, biblical prophecy reveals the Roman Catholic Church will play a key role in combining the growing Signs and Wonders Movement with the end-time Kingdom Revival Movement to create a worldwide religious movement that will eventually lead to the appearance of the Antichrist.

The Kingdom Revival Movement believes that Christendom will experience a great end-time global revival that will convert the world to Christianity that will result in Christ’s return. This movement believes that miraculous signs and wonders will be the catalyst that will spread a Christian revival throughout the world. Though biblical prophecy warns us that true Christianity will wane and vanish on the earth in the last days, (Matthew 24:10-11, 2Timothy 4:2-4, 2Peter 2:1-12) this movement teaches the exact opposite and has laid the foundation for a coming one-world religion that will feature a counterfeit Jesus Christ who will lead many into eternal damnation.

Beware! Unless your church teaches that faith in Jesus Christ’s death on the Cross for your sins and his subsequent resurrection from the dead brings you eternal life, then your church is promoting a false gospel. If your church bases eternal life on anything other than that biblical message, then get out of there and find a church that’s biblically grounded. Faith must be firmly established upon Christ and his finished work on the Cross rather than upon supernatural phenomena. God’s miracles come as the result of one’s true faith in Christ rather than the opposite. Any faith established upon supernatural events that either fails or refuses to test the spiritual source behind those events is a counterfeit faith that opens the door to demonic deception, eternal damnation and paves the way to a one-world occult religion.