“Surely, there is at this day a confederacy of evil, marshaling its hosts from all parts of the world, organizing itself, taking its measures, enclosing the church of Christ as in a net, and preparing the way for a general apostasy from it. Whether this very apostasy is to give birth to Antichrist, or whether he is still to be delayed, we cannot know; but at any rate this apostasy, and all its tokens, and instruments, are of the Evil One and savor of death.
Far be it from any of us to be of those simple ones, who are taken in that snare which is circling around us! Far be it from us to be seduced with the fair promises in which Satan is sure to hide his poison…
He prompts you what to say, and then listens to you, and praises you, and encourages you. He bids you mount aloft. He shows you how to become as gods. Then he laughs and jokes with you, and gets intimate with you; he takes your hand, and gets his fingers between yours, and grasps them, and then you are his.”
J.H.Newman, The Times of Antichrist
“Be sober, be vigilant. Your adversary, the devil, prowls the earth like a roaring lion, seeking those whom he may devour.”
1 Peter 5:8
“But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, so that the message might be fully proclaimed that all the Gentiles might hear. And I was delivered out of the lion’s mouth.”
2 Timothy 4:17
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Ephesians 6:12
Glad to see some truth in a day where it’s hard to find.
Philip K. Dick wrote: “The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.” (Valis, p. 235, citing entry 41 from “The Exegesis.”)
Do all 4th Turnings feel as apocalyptic as this one?
The spirit of hatred and rebellion in the world definitely has an otherworldly feel to it.
Words to live by:-) He is coming for His bride soon.
Blessings:-}