The Love of the Majority Will Grow Cold (the Apostasy)

1.Read Matthew 24:12.

2.What happens to the saints when they are persecuted?
Answer: Their love for Christ becomes white hot.

3.What destroys professing Christians?
Answer: Iniquity (wickedness). Plenty to eat and drink, abundance of leisure time, the ready availability of sin, the social acceptance of godless living these will pull down to destruction all but the strongest of the saints .

4.What is the greatest enemy of the churches of the end-time?
Answer: Self-centered, self-directed, pleasure-seeking lawlessness.

5.Read II Timothy 3:1-4.

6.How does Satan lead astray the disciple of Christ?
Answer: By the offer of easy, comfortable "Christian" living a form of godliness that contains none of the Presence of the Holy Spirit of God.

7.What dual technique will Antichrist use in order to persuade believers not to live a fervent, godly life?
Answer: Ready access to easy living and sin combined with economic pressure and other persecution.

8.What will be true of the saint who stands resolutely against Antichrist?
Answer: The saint who is willing to stand resolutely against the Antichrist spirit will no longer be able to have fellowship with the lukewarm believers

9.What is true today of many of the Lords people?
Answer: They are being led astray by the doctrine that states we can indulge in all the pleasures of the world and then reign with Christ at His appearing.

10.What is true of the individual who will not forsake all he has in order to follow the Master?
Answer: He is not a true Christian.

11.What should we be, as far as the ways of the present age are concerned?
Answer: Strangers and pilgrims.

12.Read Revelation 3:15-16.

13.What church will be on the earth during the days of Antichrist?
Answer: Laodicea.

14.How can we keep from being deceived by the Laodicean spirit?
Answer: By being especially careful that we keep our love for Christ fervent and pure, and that we do not allow the world spirit to seep into our soul. In this manner we can keep from being deceived by the Laodicean spirit.