Christians: Aliens And Strangers!

Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world,

To abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. (1 Peter 2:11)

Christ Jesus said:

'If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first.

If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own.

As it is, you do not belong to the world,

But I have chosen you out of the world.

That is why the world hates you.

Remember the words I spoke to you:

'No servant is greater than his master.'

If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also.

If they obey My teaching, they will obey yours also.

They will treat you this way because of My name,

For they do not know the One who sent Me.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin.

Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.

He who hates Me, hates My Father as well.

If I had not done among them what no one else did,

They would not be guilty of sin.

But now they have seen these miracles,

And yet they have hated both Me and My Father.

But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:

'They hated Me without reason.' [Psalm 35:19, 69:4] (John 15:18-25)

The apostle James says:

You adulterous people,

Don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God?

Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

(James 4:4)

The apostle Paul says:

For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved

And to those who are perishing.

To the one we are the smell of death;

To the other, the fragrance of life. (2 Corinthians 2:15-16)

This is an issue seldom addressed.

If you have been born again, and are walking in the Light of Christ,

You will be hated by the world, because the world belongs to Satan,

Who is the arch enemy of Christ.

Satan stands defeated and is bitter and angry over this fact,

Because Christ has won the victory over death, Hell and the grave.

Nevertheless, Satan is determined

To take as many people to Hell with Him as he can.

His mission is to steal, kill and destroy and he is good at it;

He has six thousand years of practice deceiving mankind.

This is the context of the world that we currently live in.

It is a battle zone and we are aliens and strangers in it.

We are living in the Last Hour of the Last Day.

Satan knows that his time is short.

Soon he will present to this deceived and fallen world,

His son, The Antichrist.

This will be his ultimate deception.

The Antichrist will be presented as the “savior of the world.”

He will be the answer to all the problems of the world.

However, those who belong to Christ will be hated even more

Because they will not go along with this deception.

Even now Satan is preparing the world to receive his Antichrist.

America and the nations of the world are becoming ever more godless

And ever more desperate.

They have failed in their attempt to create

Their anti-Christ, socialist, communist Paradises.

And they are exceedingly frustrated about this.

They have bankrupted themselves trying;

Not realizing that God will not bless the godless;

And because of this, they would never be able to achieve their goal.

Satan will present his Antichrist as the answer to all the worlds problems;

The world will accept him and then he will fail,

As God pours out His Great Tribulation on a godless humanity.

The more frustrated the nations become

The more Christians will be blamed for their problems;

The more persecution will be perpetrated upon them.

Many Christians will fall away from the faith because of this persecution.

Families will be pitted against each other.

There will be a great apostasy and rebellion within the Church,

As there was in Germany under Hitler;

Of Christians turning against God and His Word.

This persecution, falling away, and apostasy are underway at this time.

It will be ever increasing.

Because of the increase of wickedness the love of most will grow cold

As Christ Jesus warned.

Gather with those you can trust “in Christ.”

God will send to us those who will come to Christ in this Last Day.

We will overcome this world and the evil one by the blood of the Lamb

And the word of our testimony,

Not loving this life so much as to shrink from death.

Hear God's promise to us:

In That Day the Lord Almighty will be a glorious crown, a beautiful wreath

For the remnant of His people.

He will be a Spirit of justice to Him who sits in judgment [Christ],

A source of strength to those [the Bride of Christ]

Who turn back the battle at the gate. (Isaiah 28:5-6)

As God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!