Worship of depravity free-for-all

“Satan, the real master of the New Age, delights in mysterious code words and (symbols) because they allow his agents, when questioned, to escape public censure by hiding behind a verbal mirage.”

-- Texe Marrs, author of Dark Secrets of the New Age.

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Paul warns Timothy in II Timothy 3:1, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.” In verses 2-4, he details the depths of the moral declension:

[2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
[3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
[4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.

Jordan explains, “In these last days of Paul’s life—this is the last book he wrote—

he’s telling Timothy what to expect in the days ahead.

“In the prophetic program, the last days had very specific signs. There were signs in the sun, the moon, the earth, etc. that they could literally see and point to. J.C. O’Hair once said, ‘There are no signs of the times today because these are the not the times of the signs.’

“So when Paul talks about the characteristics of the last days of the dispensation of grace, he gives you these generalized moral kind of things where man is the measure of everything and when you have that, degeneration is naturally going to take place.

“When you come to verse 5 you notice that, in spite of all of the excess of human depravity, men have ‘a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.'

“Man is naturally religious; he just can’t ‘get over it’ and that’s why Romans 1, after he’s ‘changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things’ . . .  he simply takes God and reduces Him to something he can control and you have to understand there’s a WORSHIP. There’s a desire to worship and control things.

“So what they have is an external religious form of godliness. Even the Antichrist uses the Baal worship system in the Scripture to rise to power. So human depravity isn’t going to leave out religion and it will have a zeal for what it’s committed to with a religious fervor and the ferocity of religious commitment.”

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