Late in these end times many pastors learn quickly to
keep the gospel message lukewarm, nice people-pleasing
pablum so as not to offend anyone about
anything! It keeps the heat off the pastor
from anyone in the congregation, and now from the
government! Many pastors tell people in
their congregations want they WANT to hear instead of
what they SHOULD hear! This also keeps the
building fund flowing in the offering baskets so they
can build beautiful buildings! Go read the
gospels and you will quickly see that Jesus was run out
of town many times, people gnashed their teeth at Him,
and many wanted to kill Him. If a pastor is
truly doing his job, he will encounter the same type of
resistance from both humans and the god of this world
(satan). But most pastors want a comfortable
life, so they water down the gospel until it is nearly
unrecognizable! How many pastors today will
tell their congregations that Jesus is the ONLY way to
eternal life? How many pastors will tell the
people that without Christ all perish and spend eternity
in Hell? Well that is just not politically
correct! Many of these lukewarm pastors will
be left here after the Rapture (salvation and the
Rapture are not linked in Scripture!). And
after the Rapture life will become miserable, and the
lukewarm folks will have to either give in to the world
(accepting the mark of the beast----Rev. 13----and
ultimately ending up in Hell), or they will truly come
to the Lord and be martyred for their faith.
Neil