NickyLouse

A pre-wrath study of Revelation that I am going through is in Chapters 17 and 18. During this lecture about Mystery Babylon, it dawned on me that the USA could fall before the return of Christ. Rev18:3 depicts our greedy and wealthy culture very well to me For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries. The consumer nation could fall in an hour by means of economic collapse, if a nuke goes off in a large city of the USA. She will be consumed by fire... O Babylon, city of power! In one hour your doom has come! The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes any more

NickyLouse, Thank you for all your comments. I can see that you are earnestly seeking God with all your heart. I am happy to hear that you love the word of God and that you are consistent in your time with him. Praise the Lord!! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You are welcome even though I know that I get a little edgy when the Church is being talked about negatively. I love them so much for helping me to get on with my walk with Jesus. I know that there is concern for apostasy because as children of God we desire for everyone to be saved. Apostasy is a thorn in our sides in that regard. I just want my Christian brothers to know that there are wonderful folks out there (in the Body) who really care about people.

Your post reminded me of a video I saw on TBN that was set in the future where a believing father was talking to his son about how things used to be... just before guards came and hauled him away (presumably to be martyred). The words of the song can be found at I pledge Allegiance to the Lamb, but I don't know who was in the video.

If when you go to the local place where the Church meets and they are not discussing Jesus, it may indicate that it is not the Church that you are meeting there. Some of the people who meet there along with the Church may deify the leaders and accept lies and so on. If the leaders are doing the lying, then I suggest to not go there since we need leaders who are of the Body. I lived for 20 years after being baptized by water before I was baptized of the Spirit. The Gospel is simple, but accepting it and following it is not. 1) Jesus atones for the sins of men and we cannot do that for ourselves 2) Jesus was raised from the dead and is with the Father in body. If we believe that in our heart, then we are saved (from eternal torment). I was told at the time of my baptism about tithing and "church" responsibility and everything else. When what I needed to hear (and all I needed to hear) was that Jesus paid it forward for me. Now that I know this, my life is changed and I see the false testimonies as plain as day is from night. This is directly from John14, 17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. but it was written on my heart before I ever read it. After I was born again you could not keep me from reading the Bible and still can't after 14 months. I think that the only ones that are capable of being deceived are those who are not yet born again. So I pray for them in the mean time.