THE SPECTER OF DESERTION. A LESSON IN CHRISTIAN DEVOTION FOR US IN THE WESTERN CHURCH TODAY. by Gavin Finley MD Just up ahead the epic crisis of the age is looming for the western church. We have all been commissioned to bring in the final and climactic witness of Jesus Christ in the midst of a raging of nations. There will be great trials and a great tribulation. Our Lord Jesus told us so. (Mat.24, Luke 21) Dear saints. This is an issue of Christian devotion pure and simple. Shall we stay with our God through all this? Historic times are up ahead. They will probably open up on some future Jewish New Year. At that time a seven year peace covenant will be confirmed involving Israel and G-7 nations of Christendom. The trumpets will sound. And the awesome end-time drama will begin to unfold. The curtain will open. And the end-time saints will go up on stage. There they will take their places for the final acts of the play. The final three and a half years will see the 5th seal opened. This will be the final witness of the Church. And so the story of God for this era will come to its grand climax. What will this world and the watching angels see? And in particular, how will the western Church perform under pressure? When Jesus returns will He find faith upon the earth? - Luke 18:8 Will He find true loyalty and Christian devotion when He comes back? Or will He find that many, having been given no information or false information, will themselves desert from the Christian faith? And here is the key question. Are we ready to face the challenge Of Christian witness under pressure should we be called upon to do so? Or are we entertaining notions of abandonment, an inclination to in effect desert the ship?
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