Apex of ungodliness

“One of the things education and educational institutions are designed to do is pass on the traditions of a culture. A classic is a piece of literature that communicates the values, attitudes and ideas of the culture. If you only have a handful passing that on, can I tell you that the culture is lost? It’s gone. It’s just a little condiment some fuddy-duddies still know something about. Most of what these (institutions) wanted communicated was of no value as far as gaining the ability to have a conscience that could make decisions about things beyond the immediate."

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God says to Abraham in Genesis 15, [16] But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

“By saying it Isn’t full yet, there’s this recognition on the part of God that the Amorites are going to get more wicked, more ungodly, and it’s going to grow and grow, getting bigger and bigger, and finally it’s going to reach a point where 'WHAM!' they’re going to get it; it’s just not there yet.

“There’s this evolution of evil to a place where it comes to the crescendo that can’t go any further and then the judgment comes," explains Richard Jordan.

“It’s the same principle with the nation Israel. Matthew 23: [31] Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
[32] Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
[33] Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
[34] Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
[35] That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
[36] Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

“Abel is in Genesis 1 and Zechariah was in II Chronicles 24. That was the first book and the last book in a Jewish bible. He’s saying from the first one slain to the last one slain—we would say from Genesis to Revelation; from Adam all the way to the Second Coming of Christ. That’s what He’s talking about.

“These men didn’t do it personally, but all of that accumulated ungodliness is going to come down on their heads. There’s this evolution, this increasing of ungodliness.

Romans 1:18: [18] For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

“Notice the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness. It hasn’t been executed yet; it hasn’t been poured out yet. It’s just been revealed in His Word; we have it here and He’s revealed from heaven His wrath against the unrighteousness of men.

Romans 9:22: [22] What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

“When someone’s fitted to destruction they’re right at the point where judgment should fall on them; they’re ripe for that moment.

“That time came in the Book of Acts when Israel and the world had joined in rebellion and what were they doing? Who were they fighting against?

"The apex of ungodliness is not just going out and doing wicked things; it’s literally to fight against God Himself and that’s what they did in the person of Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit in the early Acts period.

“When He introduced the dispensation of grace, He introduced something into the program that has a restraining affect on ungodliness and He literally put the brakes on ungodliness and began to retard it.

II Thessalonians 2: [7] For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
[8] And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
[9] Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
[10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

"In the last days of the dispensation of grace, godliness is going to re-establish itself and it’s going to evolve and grow as God waits for the dispensation of grace to end.

"The Rapture’s going to come and take the Body of Christ out, and what was hindering and retarding is going to be taken out of the way and then it’s going to grow to a full-blown crescendo once again.

"There will be a final, climactic stage of ungodliness that comes to a head and that’s what Jude 14 and 15 is saying, when the Lord comes with 10,000 of His saints to execute judgment on all. When He comes, the ultimate climax of ungodliness will be experienced.

Revelation 19: [11] And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
[12] His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
[13] And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
[14] And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
[15] And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
[16] And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
[17] And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
[18] That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
[19] And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.

"Who is it that sat on the horse? Jesus Christ. Here you have the Antichrist and all these people in the earth and what have they come to do? Make war against God Himself. They came to fight against God."

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