From Secularism to Supernaturalism

A Marian apparition in Egypt, 1968

Many folks are convinced that religion has no future in the western world where secularism seems destined to prevail. And yet, while Christianity seems to be waning, secularism has no future. Rather, a counterfeit form of Christianity is on the horizon and it will be ushered in by supernatural events.

Such as? Such as incredible miracles that will convince even the most hardened skeptics that life exists beyond the natural realm. But when will this happen? Let the apostle Paul explain: "The coming of the lawless one (Antichrist) will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness." (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12)

Paul's revelation would make no sense to people who believe in God and understand the Bible. Rather, Paul's prophecy clearly reveals that a world skeptical of God's existence will be taken in by supernatural events when they begin to take place. And since few folks will possess any biblical knowledge, they'll have no way to test the spiritual source of these events.

And so, think about this: Since the Bible clearly reveals that Satan's greatest desire is to be worshiped as God (Isaiah 14:9-20), and scripture reveals that Satan is the god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4), then why does he allow atheism to spread and flourish across the globe?

Why? Think of atheism as a great spiritual vacuum cleaner that sucks the faith and knowledge of God out of the minds of people. Without faith in God and the knowledge of His word revealed in the Bible, and with violent false religions such as Islam murdering millions of people in the name of their gods, many people have dismissed religion as the primitive superstition of ignorant folks.

Thus, atheism serves to prepare the world for the Antichrist. While that sounds incredible, never take the devil lightly. Since he and his hierarchy of demons control the world (Ephesians 6:12), they influence the minds of fallen, godless people. 

And one of those folks was a man named Charles Darwin who published a terrible thesis in 1859 (On the Origin of Species) that attempted to explain the existence of physical life in purely natural terms sans God. Darwin's theory of evolution was so bad that it was condemned by numerous scientists even in his day. And with the advent of microbiology in the 20th century, evolution was proven a monumental fraud that possessed mathematically impossible odds.

And yet, though it's never been proven or observed to occur, evolution is taught as factual science in schools and universities throughout the world. Darwin's theory is the direct cause of all the crime, violence and moral depravity that's plagued the world--and specifically the west--since the mid-20th century. 

But how, if it's merely promoted as "science"? Because evolution denies God's existence. And if God doesn't exist, then no one is held morally accountable for their behavior and no judgment awaits them at death. If evolution is true, then rotten human beings such as Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin fare no worse in death than Pope John Paul II or Mother Teresa. 

Remember that Jesus Christ also warned of a great wave of counterfeit miracles preceding the rise of the Antichrist. (Matthew 24:24-25) The purpose of these demonic events is to lead a gullible and spiritually ignorant world to the Antichrist. And a world that doesn't believe in God, miracles or life beyond the physical realm will be easily taken in by such a fraud.

In his second letter to the early church in Corinth, the apostle Paul wrote this: "For we are not unaware of his (Satan's) schemes." (2 Corinthians 2:11) Atheism is a scheme of the devil to deny God, deny His word and deny His grace to mankind in Jesus Christ crucified on the cross for the sins of the world and His resurrection from the dead. 

And once Satan has purged the world of the faith and knowledge of the true God of the universe, then he can introduce his own "Christ." A world that's ignorant of the devil and his schemes, and possesses no knowledge of the true God of the universe will be easily led astray by the counterfeit miracles when they begin occurring. And we're closer to that time than many people realize.