Is the Great Falling Away Already Underway?

"There is much talk about Christ’s soon Second Coming. But we know that Jesus will not return for a church without spot or wrinkle unless the falling away comes first … (1 Thess. 2:3). Although it’s nothing entirely new, we are indeed witnessing a fast-progressing departure from sound doctrine and a holy life."

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The other night at the grocery I helped an elderly man with something. As we were there in the parking lot, late at night since the store closed at 10 p.m. , we got to taking about current events as relate to Bible prophecy.

"It's easy to get frustrated, even angry. " He said "But, I don't know if you're religious, maybe you're not, but it's all in the Bible. Everything that's happening is in the scriptures.
"Yes, it is." I said "That's why I'm not afraid. It is all foretold. The Christian simply has to realize where they are in their walk and breathe. God knows and we're here for the ride he's determined is necessary to show the skeptics and the world who's in charge."

Are you afraid? Mad? Compelled to tell those who find the most benign thing offensive and worthy of public attack and removal from public view to blow it out their tail pipe?
Like the school child just recently. They had a Wonder Woman lunch box and were sent home due to that. It displayed violence and was against school policy.

Rather than concede to such stupidity in schools our taxes support, parents should return their child to that same school while in the company of an attorney. Make an example of stupidity and their offspring will get the hint not to mess with kids.

Meanwhile, what do you think? For older members, have you seen the changes that are happening in American society occur as rapidly as they are today?
It seems that what use to take generations to occur is now happening in blocks of months or a few years.

Churches turning from the Bible and to the world. Something that I never imagined I'd see. And I was raised in the church. But it seems like every month we're reading of a new turning away by a different denomination.

Scared? Ready? Excited? Prepared?
Thoughts?

That's very good to know about other parts of the world.
I think there's still life in the Christian community in America. I just think that right now the radical atheists, and the immoral agenda push makes it appear as if God's word and people are being overcome.
I've heard pastors say it's time for a revival at a national level. Wouldn't that be something? Revivals from coast to coast and border to border! Praising God and lighting the fire of the Holy Spirit in every state or nearly so?

Someone in a different thread noticed the movement to polarize America into such a divide that we lose sight of the big picture.
The church, the Christians united under the banner and truth of Christ, is not exempt from that effort either I don't think. There are wolves amongst us who hope to lead the sheep straight to the fallen gates while espousing God's word is what gives them license in a new gospel.
I don't think Christians breed converts. That's something cultists do I'd think. I do believe there is a deep need for evangelism and a revival of the spirit on a national level. Because America is besieged by the virus of political correctness. A movement that wants to strip Christ from sight in America. That wants to prosecute those who read their Bibles in the open. Who speak of God at all, who pray over their meals in public.
The fallen, those who are oppressed by the virus of PC and the cloak of sin the enemy lays across their shoulders, are repulsed by the call , the sight, of righteousness in action. Or on display in the form of a cross, a Bible, a bowed head giving thanks, a billboard heralding a call to repentance.

It is indeed what others have noticed; spiritual warfare.
And the disciples on the side of the abyss will argue it is not and that is a myth. While leading the charge!

All is God ordains however. And as we know in the end the hounds of Hell lose! Until then, it is up to the Saints to hold the line. And with God's help repel the efforts of those who follow the path the enemy of God carves out as he roams this world looking for even more souls to devour.

Maybe reading the NT in the chronological order in which the books were written helps. It could lay a map to follow events that are traceable to this point. Maybe.