Asleep at the wheel

Danger Ahead

What many churches are doing today is absolutely terrifying, the vast majority of Christians don't see it and as a result, they won’t be ready for what’s going to hit them. What these churches are doing to their congregations is like taking a baby and placing it in the middle of a highway in the path an 18-wheeler barreling down the road at high speed. That's no way to treat a baby or a congregation.

Now that truck I’m referring to in this little “analogy” is the end times. You know, the times that these churches are supposed to be preparing their congregations for. But instead of warning them of the danger coming their way, these churches are about to lead their flocks directly into its path. Are you in one of these churches? If you are, what should you do about it? At the end of this essay, we're going to give you a little bit of advice that may be helpful to you.

Right now, what “many” (not all) of our institutional churches are doing is no different from what the public school system is doing to our children. Neither the schools nor the churches are teaching and/or preparing anyone for what’s coming. They’re indoctrinating the people in their care into accepting something that is total nonsense and that will ultimately harm them, but for the purposes of our discussion, we’ll just stick with the churches.

A recently conducted online survey of professing Christians that asked about what churches are teaching today produced some surprising results. First of all, about 75 percent of respondents said that either their church was, or they believed that most churches were, asleep about the end times. As a result, a third of those respondents said they no longer attend church at all for that very reason! That’s a very sad commentary of contemporary Christianity!

What’s interesting here is that the results of that online survey of Christians exactly matches what a recent LifeWay survey of pastors had to say about how important they thought Bible prophecy was. Less than a third of respondents to the LifeWay survey thought the book of Revelation or the Old Testament prophets was “very important.” Adding insult to injury, less than a third of the pastors surveyed thought it very important that they even study prophecy. This response was despite the fact that another recent LifeWay survey said 56 percent of those same pastors thought Jesus was returning in their lifetime!

On another question, nine out of ten pastor’s thought events taking place in the world right now were signs of Jesus's soon return. Stop right there! Can you see the disconnect? How can 56 percent of pastors think they'll see Jesus return soon and yet only half that number think prophecy is very important or want to study it? That tells me they don't think there is anything in those prophecies that their congregations really need to know. Now that is terrifying! That means it’s the blind are leading the blind and that's how a baby ends up in the middle of the highway about to get run over by a truck. Danger is coming straight at them and it's supposed to be their job to protect everyone from it!

“Shifting gears” slightly (pun intended), it’s important to note that 100 million churchgoers in America give about 75 billion dollars annually to support an infrastructure of buildings and staff that for the most part are not preparing them for what is coming. Now I believe this is directly related to why pastors are both unconcerned about studying about the end times or warning their congregations of the dangers ahead. Regardless of the matter, if ever you want to know the reason why something is the way it is, always follow the money.

And here's a big surprise, you aren't expecting this, but in regards to the end times, what is most important right now isn't knowing when certain things take place! You know, the things that we can and tend to argue about the most. I'm talking about, the pre-trib post-trib or pre-wrath rapture timing. Rather, what’s really important is what we need to be doing regardless of when those things happen. It should be about how we need to be living every day regardless. This is something that really shouldn't be controversial at all.

Here's an important example of what's being ignored. It's like what the public schools are doing, teaching a worldly approach to life. Unfortunately, we're also getting that in our churches too! This example is a verse that very few churches preach and teach about but which is incredibly applicable given the times.

In First John 2:15-16 it reads:

“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.”

So the Apostle John tells us that life is a dichotomy. It's either love of the Father or love of the world, one or the other. And this love of the world is exactly what the world system will use as leverage against us! If you're loving the things of this world like cars, houses, fancy meals, your job, your looks, you need to know that these are the things that Satan will tempt you with. We are all going to have to make some hard choices in the years ahead. We either hold on to the things of his world or stay faithful to Jesus. We can't have both.

So, are you being prepared for that because Satan is going to progressively offer to let you keep those things of the world, but only if you conform to his world system. Most folks haven't realized that this is the major threat of the last days. You can already see this happening globally in the business world where they're forcing what's called the “Environmental Social Governance” (ESG) scoring system on all businesses large and small.

The ESG scores on businesses, just as the World Economic Forum (WEF) is promoting them, is why we see big corporations like Target and Budweiser putting out advertising campaigns that anger their customers and cause them to lose big money. Following this path would normally make no sense at all for a for-profit company with a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. Instead of “shareholders” (the owners), today’s company’s are instead focussing on what the WEF calls Stakeholder Capitalism.

What Stakeholder capitalism dictates is that if a company’s highly subjective “ESG Score” drops too low, to hell with the owners, the company will either correct itself or lose access to investors, Banking services and suppliers. So, even though their customers don't like what they're doing and buy fewer products in the short term, they don’t care. The WEF loves the ESG system in the long term because they can use it to get businesses to do their bidding and through them, they can get the people to obey also.

This is Fascism 2.0. But, instead of the way it was in the old days when a dictator would come to power and used the government’s guns to force privately owned companies and the citizens within their borders to do their bidding, or else; now the globalist WEF oligarchs use the power of their vast wealth to buy off the politicians who use the government’s guns to force everyone else to get on the Stakeholder Capitalism, ESG score bandwagon and get “Woke” or go broke.

I hope you realize churches will soon have to conform to the ESG system too. Remember, they have built an infrastructure that is dependent on money donations to support it. It takes 75 billion dollars a year to support the modern “Church Industrial Complex” (CIC) to pay salaries, make mortgages, keep the lights, heat and AC on, Etc. So don’t be surprised when Banks and other suppliers will soon close their doors to churches that don't comply with the WEF’s ESG system. Now if you think this isn't going to happen, you’re wrong. It’s already happening.

One relatively famous internet doctor, Dr Joseph Mercola, has already been “cancelled.” On July 13, 2023, his company was banned by the bank he’d been doing business with for years. They informed Dr. Mercola that they were closing all his business accounts along with his personal accounts and the personal accounts of his CEO, his CFO and their respective spouses and children. Even their young children were informed they would never be allowed to bank with them in the future. This is all because of Dr. Mercola's political views. He’s an advocate of natural alternative medicine and an outspoken critic of vaccines. A similar thing has happened to Mike Lindell the “My Pillow” guy because of his outspoken distrust of our computerized electoral systems.

Now, if you think you’re safe because this will only be limited to businesses and high profile people, you need to wake up and smell the fascism. ESG’s for businesses are only the beginning. They also have a “Social Credit Score” (SCS) system in the works for every individual person on the planet. The SCS is predicted to be tied in the future to Central Bank Digital Currencies or (CBDC’s) so how much digital money that’s not worth the digital paper its not printed on that you have in your bank, access to, or allotted to you each month will be dependent on whether or not you bend your knee to Babylon the Great.

No doubt Christians will face similar choices in the very near future. If Christians love what their money can buy or their status more than they love their Heavenly Father, they will bend their knees to that system. We call that apostasy! Don't pastors see this coming? No! Personally, I don't think they do and even if they do, they don't seem to think it's a big problem. Don't love the things of the world isn't controversial at all from a Biblical perspective. It’s completely biblical. It’s just that most churches don't give this topic anything but lip service.

I don't know why? I am only guessing here, but it seems possible that it's the reason why is that churches need money in order to support their big infrastructure of buildings and staff that has them so silent on this issue. Many, if not most, churches act as if they're businesses these days. I think they fear telling people to stop placing so much value on finances and things isn't going to help their bottom line or promote higher giving. As a matter of fact, it would most likely promote much less giving and that of course won't support their infrastructure.

Now I don't want to pick on any Pastor in particular because it’s likely that a multitude of them that feel this way, but here is what one prominent teacher had to say about 1st John 2:15 that we quoted earlier. He was asked in a Blog to comment on this verse. Read the question and then carefully look at his answer. The question was: “What exactly does it mean to love not the world nor the things of the world?” Here's the response: “In terms of what that practically means, I think it involves not being mesmerized by popular culture. One of the negative things that I see in the American church today is its preoccupation with pop culture. It's become so much a part of us that we tend to be immersed in exactly the same thing as the people around us.”

Now that's true. But, it's a pretty weak and an incomplete answer IMHO. It’s particularly not a courageous response to a world system that will soon give you a choice to either conform and be rewarded or not conform and potentially lose everything that you've worked for. Now teaching non-conformity in this situation would be courageous and a better response.

So, what’s a believer to do about the fact that, first, churches that don't teach about the end times and Secondly, don't prepare their congregations spiritually for the difficult choices they're going to have to make? Well, the easy answer would be to just leave your congregation like we saw a third of believers already do. Instead, imagine yourself in a world system that will rise in the next few years and decide what you should do now to overcome it before it gets here.

First of all, what I would strongly recommend is that you start your own underground house church! Even if you don't feel confident or competent to start one, remember this, it is the biblical model from the book of Acts. In the early church, believers met house to house. So, in the near future when your institutional church makes that big ESG compromise that we've been talking about, you'll be glad for the dozen or so people who are meeting at your home.

Secondly, I recommend you start living more frugally and begin devaluing the things of this world in both your heart and your mind right now. Think about it, if you’re going to eventually lose those things anyway. If you don't value things now, you won't mind it one bit when faced with having to give them up in the future. Maybe instead of valuing things it would be better to start valuing people and building relationships! When everything starts to go sideways and the “brimstone hits the fan,” it will be very helpful to have a network of people you trust that you can count on in an emergency. Maybe these will be the people who start your underground house church with you!

Finally, I do think that many, maybe even most, believers also miss the point that the world system that is coming our way is going to begin to bribe those who stay in worldly churches that have sold out and conform to the ESG system to turn on and betray those who are faithful Believers. They’ll do it by offering them higher social credit scores and all the earthly benefits that come from being a conformist to Mystery Babylon’s system and they’ll start by turning on the people they know in their sold out institutional church. If you’re not a member of one of those churches, it will be harder for them to find you to betray you.

Just a thought. . .