Why aren’t more pulpits acknowledging the obvious? Purposeful ignorance doesn’t sit well with God

Small Church in Fog

2 Peter 3:3-4 “Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”

Important Takeaways:

  • What Keeps The Majority Christians From Acknowledging The Obvious? Time Is Running Out
  • Author and commentator Jonathan Brentner asks the question “how can you not see the fulfilling of Bible prophecy wherever you look?”
  • The re-birth and prospering of the nation of Israel
  • The rise of artificial intelligence
  • The preparation of the coming digital currency
  • The use of a pandemic to hasten global government
  • The rise of Mark of the Beast technology
  • The rise of apostasy in the church the last 60 years
  • The death of discernment
  • Talk of a third temple in Israel
  • The scoffing of Bible prophecy
  • A cancel culture that cancels Christians
  • The exponential rise of evil
  • The rise of anti-Semitism
  • The Silence of the Shepherds
    • I personally believe that the root of today’s blindness to these facts is the silence of the church. Some 30 years ago, our seminaries dropped eschatology from their class line-up and pastors have not been trained in things to come. What a tragedy! At such a time as this, the shepherds are not equipped.
    • Many pastors state they don’t wish to take a “controversial” stand when it comes to last days’ eschatology.

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Coach Dave Daubenmire warns the Church needs to speak out

Jeremiah 5:26-31 “For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Important Takeaways:

  • and the Pulpits Are Silent….
  • This commentary was originally written in 2006. Not much has changed.  We wonder why evil is flourishing.  It is worth another read.
  • Despite what the political parties would like you to believe, the problem in America is not the politicians, it is the pulpits. I hate to break the news to you, but most of America’s pulpits are filled with cowardly men.
  • While our nation is killing babies, our schools are indoctrinating Christian-kids.
  • Secular Humanism, and Truth has fallen in our streets. Our preachers are attending church-growth seminars, using “self-help” books to supplement the Bible
  • Legislation is introduced to remove the rights of parents and the pulpits are silent.
  • Children are told they can become the opposite sex and the pulpits are silent.
  • Tolerance trumps Truth and the pulpits are silent.

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Burnout in the Pulpit ‘Wearing on the Soul’

Daniel 7:25 “He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.”

Important Takeaways:

  • Pastors battle skyrocketing burnout amid politics, pandemic: ‘Wearing on the soul’
  • Barna Group suggested that unprecedented numbers are thinking about quitting the ministry. The poll showed that rates of burnout among pastors have risen dramatically during the past year, with a staggering 42% of ministers wondering if they should abandon their vocation altogether.
  • That number marked an increase of 13 percentage points since Barna’s similar poll in January 2021, when just 29% felt that way. Such pastors named stress (56%), loneliness (43%) and political divisions (38%) as the top reasons they have wearied of the job, as well as the toll it has taken on their families (29%).

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