Will there be such an Era? What will it be like?
You and I will probably not live to see such an era, but is it possible that such a period looms on the horizon? Could it be that the entire world will succumb to false religions, void of Christ, except for an underground Church? Will Christ return to find only a few remaining faithful? At best all we will be able to accomplish here, at least in one writing, is a brief examination of a few indicators. Let's start with persecution. We can clearly see the "all out" attack upon Christianity within our public school system, our universities, and our courts of law. These are frontal attacks and cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be regarded as subtle or insignificant any longer. We cannot entertain the idea that persecution is something that only happens in foreign countries, or under communist dictators today, albeit the frequency and intensity of it is dramatically on the rise there as well. When a child in art class in our schools can draw, or paint, an image of budda or any other "diety," and have it displayed as merely a work of art and another child have his work refused for display on the grounds that it is a promotion of religion because it is an image of Christ or a cross, the bias is real and cruel. The Christian child will be intimidated and restrained from a very early age and of course that is the intent. What better way to limit the growth of our faith. Next, we have the problem of our Church and our faith being disgraced in the eyes of the world by some of the clergy and church leaders. These wolves in sheep's clothing are misleading their congregations and molesting their children. They are even bold enough to proclaim from the pulpits that their lifestyles are "normal." The Bible clearly states that these men and women cannot enter the Kingdom of God because they are unrepentant; not because of their sin. They are unrepentant of perversion that God says is sin. Unrepentant (impenitent) simply means that they defiantly refuse to acknowledge God's decree that they are sinning, to confess it and to turn from it. Not only are they impenitent, but they are teaching our society that what they are doing is acceptable is the sight of our Holy God. Certainly, they have no business in a pulpit anywhere. The secondary "fall out" from their teaching is the false presumption that you can do your own thing, live any sort of sinful lifestyle and be a Christian simply by calling yourself one; that if you are not of some other faith, you are Christian by default. Needless to say satan and the world will tolerate that form of Christianity, because it will not save souls. And, because of the hate crimes legislation, our ever growing, elaborate prison system will probably one day be filled with the preachers of the true gospel and their followers. What will the future be for our posterity? Will it be a time of severe trials and persecutions? Or, will it be a time of a gradual melting away as our Bibles are changed and rewritten (which is happening everyday) and a changed and different gospel is preached (also happening everyday)? Will the false religions of the far and middle eastern countries smother Christianity to the point that only a few, washed in the blood, born again, Christians will remain at the second coming of Christ? There is plenty of evidence, both biblical and extrabiblical to support such possibilities. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (John 3:3b) KJV That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. (John 3:6,7)KJV

Hey Jerry, I really hate to see you leave permanently. Maybe you could put up an away for the summer message and leave it here? That way it will be easy to pick up again when you miss it, LOL.

Please do keep in touch with everyone!!

Best wishes, and blessings, Alice

Jerry, Why? You have a great journal here, not only that but I have just had the pleasure of meeting you. I really hate to see you just give up your journal. God be with you always.
Milton

Why? Let me see if I can give a satisfactory answer.
Most of the journals in which I write have been around for several years, are "crawled" by every robot and listed by every search engine. They generate traffic for each other sometimes exceeding 1400 hits per day. Of course this is wonderful from a reading point of view. But, they also generate loads of email from readers with prayer requests, others wanting spiritual counseling for everything from marriage problems to alcohol abuse. Many want to discuss denominational differences or origins. Still others want info on the different versions of the Bible or need help finding a particular verse of scripture. Of course, many are encouraging comments, but the bulk of the email requires my personal attention and response. It has long since gone beyond what I can manage and for quite sometime I have had to be very selective in my responses. This is not fair and it will not get better. I am overwhelmed; I could not keep up if I had two, full-time secretaries. This has also made it next to impossible for me to even write new articles in my journals. But, even without writing for months the email is ever increasing. So, I will close these journals. I am sorry. I guess I had no idea that this could get so out of hand.

I'll miss you Jerry, I can understand how it can become too much.

God Bless