Spiritual darkness has settled on the world today.
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Many of the Lord’s people already have been deceived. If the believers do not abandon at once the Antichrist love of material gain, their fate will be torment with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and the Lamb (Revelation 14:10).
Where will their pastors and evangelists be then—they who coddled the believers and assured them that even though they were not bearing their cross behind Jesus they had no need to worry. These false prophets have taught their followers that God loves them too much to deny them anything they desire. What will they say to their flocks when they all are looking with horror at each other in outer darkness?
Some who are teaching a "pre-Antichrist rapture" may not realize that they and their disciples already are serving and preaching Antichrist. Because they have chosen the riches of the world they will not be given the true riches of the Kingdom of God.
As far as we know, Judas was an ordinary human being.
At one time Judas had been a little boy, playing games around his home in the village of Kerioth. Could the lad Judas have realized that one day his Creator would say of him, "It had been good for that man if he had not been born"? Could Judas have known that one day his name would be a symbol for treachery throughout the world?
What if Christ were to say that about me?—about you? Are we immune for some reason? Was Judas immune? Were Ananias and Sapphira, who held back part of the proceeds from the sale of their land because of their desire for money, immune to the wrath of God because they were members of the early Church?
The holy Scriptures by commandment and example teach us to flee from the love of money, from the deceitfulness of riches. It is impossible to serve God and money. We must choose between these two demanding masters.
Esau traded the Messianic inheritance for a bowl of lentils. Judas sold Emmanuel for thirty pieces of silver. Gehazi exchanged the trust of Elisha, and his own health, for some clothes. Balaam, Ananias, and Sapphira gave their lives for material gain.
The members of the Laodicean churches will trade their part in the Lamb’s Book of Life for economic security, during the reign of Antichrist.
We have made our choice. How about you?
"That the scripture might be fulfilled," Jesus prayed. Christ knew from the beginning who it was that would betray Him.
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve. (John 6:70,71)
Judas was mentioned by the Spirit of Christ speaking through David:
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. (Psalms 41:9)
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