Among those events were these: "At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved." (Matthew 24:10-13)
What did Christ mean? He revealed that in the end times, many people would abandon the church to follow false prophets who would tell them what they wanted to hear. (2 Timothy 4:3) While most people associate prophets with religion, prophets can also be associated with secular ideologies.
Prophets are usually considered to be folks who claim they can foretell the future. But they can also be teachers who offer ideological worldviews that contrast with the biblical Judeo-Christian worldview. Thus, people such as Charles Darwin and Karl Marx can be considered prophets because they offered worldviews that contrasted and contradicted the biblical worldview.
Darwin offered a godless worldview that claimed life began millions of years ago in a primordial mud-pond via random chemical processes. Marx offered a utopian, socialistic worldview that claimed the majority of crime, violence and poverty resulted from class warfare between rich and poor. Spread the wealth around, Marx reasoned, and the world would have peace.
Darwin's theory of evolution was so terrible that it was dismissed by many scientists as nonsense. Eminent scientist and astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle said this: The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.
Even the brilliant Albert Einstein who was an agnostic, dismissed Darwin's theory of evolution as scientifically impossible. Einstein reasoned that if the physical universe came about via a primordial "Big Bang", all the organic material would've been sterilized by the intense heat from such an explosion, making life impossible.
Nevertheless, Darwin's bizarre theory gained traction and took off. Millions of people throughout the world believe that they are the descendants of apes and monkeys. They don't believe the Bible's claim that God created the physical universe and fashioned human beings in His own image. (Genesis 1:1-26) By dismissing the biblical revelation of God's creation, these people either deny God's existence or they redefine Him into an energy source who's not a personal being.
And so, as the logic goes, if the biblical account of creation is a myth, then so is God. Thus, God's laws and commandments are nothing but human constructs that can be changed or eliminated. And if God is a myth, then no one is morally accountable for their actions. There's a direct correlation between the decline of the Christian church in the world and the rise of lawlessness. When people no longer believe in God, they inevitably fall into depravity and wickedness.
Thus, the rise of lawlessness, predicted by Christ 2,000 years ago, is directly related the collapse of the Christian church. Why has the church collapsed? Because it stopped contending for the faith right about the time Darwin introduced his terrible theory of evolution in 1859.
The church offered no rebuttal to Darwin's theory and godless leftists, who were desperately seeking anything they could use to deny God's existence, found their answer in evolution.
Concerning those who reject God despite the irrefutable evidence, Paul wrote this: "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles." (Romans 1:18-23)
Without God, mankind is like a rudderless ship hopelessly lost at sea. Without a commitment to a faith that demands purity and separation from the world, the church becomes a museum piece to be treated as a relic from the past. And without the guiding light of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the world grows more dark and evil with each passing day.
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