Spiritual Apostasy or The Great Falling Away

Spiritual Apostasy, ‘The Great Falling Away and the Revealing’: Record Low Six (6) Percent of Americans Adhere to a Biblical Worldview, New Study Shows. What do we know about the number six (6)?

2 Thessalonians 2:3  “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Note: The man of sin, ‘son of perdition’ is being revealed currently. The final ‘proof’ will be during his ‘abomination of desolation’ after 7 years. MbS became Crown Prince from the bottomless pit of Evil, House of Saud, in June of 2017 + 7 = 2024. Seven (7) denotes God’s divine completion to His plan or purpose. 2020-2027 is the 7 year tribulation. 2028 is Israel’s 80th anniversary, ‘A new millennial beginning.’ Eight (8) represents a new era, a new beginning, the Millennial Reign of Christ on Earth. 2 Thessalonians 2:3 simply indicates that the ‘Day of the Lord’ (second physical coming of Christ to earth) WILL NOT occur until 3 ½ years AFTER the Beast identifies himself as the Antichrist during the event known as the ‘abomination of desolation’ where he declares himself to be god and demands the world to worship him accordingly, under threat of death. This will most likely occur sometime in 2024. Three things are to happen in order. 1. The ‘falling away’ or spiritual apostasy of many around the world regarding Christian faith. 2. The ‘abomination of desolation’ occurring at the midpoint of the tribulation. 3. Lastly, the ‘Day of the Lord’ will not occur until AFTER events noted one and two have already occurred. The revealing of the Beast who becomes the Antichrist, takes EXACTLY Seven (7) years to be completed. ‘Step 1’ has occurred.

Redemption Imminent.

Spiritual Apostasy, ‘The Great Falling Away and the Revealing’: Record Low Six (6) Percent of Americans Adhere to a Biblical Worldview, New Study Shows. What do we know about the number six (6)?

Milton Quintanilla | Contributor for ChristianHeadlines.com | Tuesday, March 31, 2020

A new study shows that only six percent of Americans adhere to a biblical worldview.

The American Worldview Inventory 2020 survey is a premier study of an annual report conducted by veteran researcher George Barna of the newly launched Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University (ACU).

“The survey asked 51 worldview questions that examined both what people believe and how they conduct their lives”, The Christian Post reports.

The survey found that approximately one-fifth of congregants in evangelical Protestant churches hold fast to a biblical worldview (21 percent), whereas only one-sixth of those who attend charismatic or Pentecostal churches (16 percent) adhere to a biblical worldview.

Additionally, the numbers throughout mainline Protestant churches (8 percent), and Catholics (1 percent) were even lower.

Defined in part by “their acceptance of scriptural exhortations regarding sin, grace, and salvation,” the survey found that born again Christians were three times more likely (19 percent) to have a biblical worldview than the average.

Nonetheless, the report asserts that this with less than one-fifth of born-again adults holding a biblical worldview, it suggests that there has been an “extensive decline of core Christian principles in America over the last several decades.”

Notional Christians, the largest segment of people who profess Christ but lack a personal relationship, “comprise about 54 percent of the U.S. population.” On the other hand, just one-tenth or 1 percent of notional Christians hold fast to a biblical worldview.

Barna notes the decrease in adults holding a biblical worldview from 12 percent a quarter-century ago to the present time, just 6 percent, is “the lowest yet.”

He added how one’s beliefs are integrated into one’s life as it reflects those beliefs.

“As a result, our worldview research always balances examining both what we believe to be true with how we translate such beliefs into action.”

“The societal shift toward non-Christian worldviews like postmodernism, Marxism, secular humanism, and modern mysticism is most clearly reflected in values,” the report continues.

Alluding to prior research, Barna elaborates that, “the dominant values in the United States today are acceptance, comfort, control, entertainment, entitlement, experiences, expression, freedom, and happiness.”

The current values ultimately demonstrate a shift in the moral landscape “from previous eras in which a more widely accepted biblical worldview yielded civic duty, hard work, humility, faith, family, moderation and the rule of law.”

“Unless America experiences a steady increase in people reflecting a biblical worldview in their lives, America’s future is more likely to resemble that of nations characterized by moral and behavioral chaos,” cautioned Tracy Munsil, CCU executive director and an associate professor of political science at Arizona Christian University.

“Alternative perspectives such as postmodern, Marxism, and secular humanism drive American thinking and lifestyles these days.” she added.

“What we experience in our nation today will not change until we replace the cause of the prevalent thinking and behavior. The cause is our worldview.”

About 2000 U.S adults partook in the worldview survey in January through 1,000 telephone interviews and 1,000 online questionnaires.

Earlier this month, the Cultural Research Center at ACU postponed its formal launch due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Jesus Christ’s Offer of Salvation:

The ABCs of Salvation through Jesus Christ (the Lamb)

A. Admit/Acknowledge/Accept that you are sinner. Ask God’s forgiveness and repent of your sins.

. . . “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23).

. . . “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.” (Romans 3:10).

. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8).

B. Believe Jesus is Lord. Believe that Jesus Christ is who He claimed to be; that He was both fully God and fully man and that we are saved through His death, burial, and resurrection. Put your trust in Him as your only hope of salvation. Become a son or daughter of God by receiving Christ.

. . . “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:15-17). For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13).

C. Call upon His name, Confess with your heart and with your lips that Jesus is your Lord and Savior.

. . . “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans 10:9-10).

. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” (John 1:8-10).

. . . “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (John 2:2).

. . . “In this was manifested the love of god toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.” (1 John 4:9, 14-15).

. . . “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:8-10).

. . . “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23).

. . . “Jesus saith unto them, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6).

. . . “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth.” (Romans 1:16).

. . . “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts: 4:12).

. . . “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth for there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:4-6).

. . . “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thessalonians 5:9).

. . . “But as many as received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” (John 1:12).

True Church / Bride of Christ Spared from God’s Wrath:

 Romans 5:8-10. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”

Romans 12:19Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 1:10. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

1 Thessalonians 5:9. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

Romans 8:35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Jeremiah 30:7. Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

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