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“The Lights Are Going Out!”
by A Sadlier
November 1st, 2007

Paul tells us that there will come a day when the Church will be taken out of the world. When that happens the ministry of the Holy Spirit regarding the restraining of sin, will cease. “Only He who now letteth (hinders) will continue to let (hinder), until He be taken out of the way.” 2 Thessalonians 2:7

That will be a day of darkness, when sin will reign totally unrestrained. That day has not yet come, but it appears to be drawing near. Today the night of sin is descending upon our world in an unprecedented way.

The following article appeared in the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, Oct 16, 2007. It is a quote from a leading pre-school educator and supported by a leading child psychologist. “(Kindergarten) Children should be able to look at each other and examine each others bodies. They can play Doctor, play Mother and Father, dance naked and masturbate.” The moral lights are going out!

A middle school in Maine is now dispensing birth control pills to children in grades 3 to 6. This is the deliberate cultivation of immorality among children.

In California, Governor Schwarznegger has signed a law banning anything perceived as negative to gays in California schools. The terms “Mom” and “Dad” as well as “Husband” and “Wife” have been banned from use in California schools.

Bill SB777, also orders public schools to allow boys to use the girls restrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa for the girls.

Concerned parents have no choice but to pull their children out of public schools which have now become sexual indoctrination centres.

The Lights are going out in our world!

We are living in a sensual society which has plunged into immorality, both heterosexual and homosexual.

Divorce rates are falling because fewer and fewer people are marrying.

Large numbers of our people take mind numbing and soul destroying drugs.

Materialism is the god of our society and is worshipped with great fervor.

In our world, in the last fifty years, almost one billion babies have been murdered in their mother’s wombs, while animal abuse will not be tolerated.

The Lord said to Cain, after he had murdered his brother Abel, “the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground”. The voices of a billion babies cry out to God for vengeance against a world in rebellion against God.

The Lights are going out in our world!

The Lord said to a world that had plunged into sin and rebellion against God, “My Spirit shall not always strive with man”. The flood which destroyed the world and its inhabitants followed soon after that, the lights had gone out in the world of Noah’s day.

Our society has, through the teaching of evolution, denied the existence of the God who created the heavens and the earth.

Every claim of God and His Word on the lives of men and women has been thrown off. David, in Psalm 2, described our world today, “let us break their bands asunder, and cast their cords from us”. David is referring to the claims of God and His Word on the lives of those whom He has created.

If only men and women would respond to the love of God. God loves every man and woman alive on earth. He greatly desires to redeem and provide His righteousness to all men and women everywhere, if only they will respond in true repentance and true faith. He has promised to infinitely bless those who will.

As the lights are going out in the world, there grows an even more troubling situation. The lights are going out in the Church. Our hearts are greatly troubled by the religious deception that is sweeping over the Evangelical Church in this very hour. If you are truly God’s child, please do not write me off as an old crank! Open your heart, not to me, but to God’s Spirit and to the teaching of His Word concerning the Church.

The User Friendly, Purpose Driven, Emerging Church has corrupted the Church from that which the Lord clearly teaches the Church is to be. They have conformed the Church to the world and brought the world into the Church. The ship is to be in the sea, not the sea in the ship, it’s a disaster when the sea is in the ship.

It seems that some evangelical Pastors are leading God’s blood bought Saints into Apostasy. They are deceived and are deceiving others.

There are great buildings, great crowds, great music, great organization and great programs but nothing to feed the souls of God’s people. They have entertaining music, electronics, proven business principles, but the preaching is dumbed down and God’s people are starved in their souls, while the gospel of easy believism is preached.

The whole thing is a masterpiece of deception. Jesus said, in Matthew 24, that religious deception would be the great problem in the last days. We are now there.

During the first half of the tribulation period when the Apostate, Harlot Church is at its peak, the Scripture teaches that this Church will be so deceptive that some of God’s saved children will be caught up in it. I believe we are seeing the beginning of this today.

Listen to the Lord speaking to that deceptive Church, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye be not partakers of her plagues”. Rev. 18:4

To you who are truly saved and in such a Church, if God is speaking to your heart, come out of the deception in which you are caught up.

“Thus saith the Lord, stand in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, wherein is the good way, and walk in it, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, we will not walk in it.” Jeremiah 6: 16

As I look at evangelicals today I am haunted by the Words of Jesus in Matthew 7: 22, 23, “Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied (preached) in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity”. Totally deceived! They never came out!

But God’s people will come out. See Matthew 24:24 “If it were possible, (and it is not possible, clearly implied) they shall deceive the very elect.” Come out! Don’t be deceived!

Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13