The false prosperity and happiness teachings
of today’s church are from Satan. If your life is good, you are happy about
what is being taught in your church, in need of nothing, the world is treating you
well and you call yourself a Christian; you have a major problem because the
Bible does not teach these things for those who follow the Truth.
Luke 6:25. Woe to you who are
full, For you shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh
now, For you shall mourn and weep.
James 4:9. Lament and mourn and
weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10.
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
I am not saying you can never be happy in
this earth age but our only true lasting joy and happiness is in the Lord Jesus
and his Holy Spirit and the expectation of our future in Christ and our Father’s
kingdom away from an evil and adulterous world. We have not yet entered into
the one thousand year reign of Christ with his Saints and therefore do not rule
this world. If you are not being persecuted for Christ, the Holy Spirit does not
rest upon you.
1 Peter
4:12. Beloved, do not think it strange
concerning the fiery trial
which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; 13.
but rejoice to the extent that you partake of
Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is
revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. 14. If
you are reproached for the name of Christ,
blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God
rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is
glorified.
John 16:20. "Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice;
and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. 21.
"A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has
come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers
the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. 22.
"Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will
see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from
you.
1
Thessalonians 2:19. For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it
not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ
at His coming? 20. For you are our glory
and joy.
Acts 13:52. And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
We do not see the open persecution of Jesus
followers yet in the so called free world yet but it is happening covertly to
the few who truly follow the Word of God. Many will come out of this false
church when open persecution begins during the time of great tribulation.
Hosea 5:15. I will return again to My place till they acknowledge their offense. Then they will seek My
face; in their affliction they will diligently seek Me.''
It would be better if you came out of Laodicea now, which is this false
prosperity church spoken of in the book of Revelation.
John
15:18. "If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it
hated you. 19. "If you were of the world, the world
would love its own. Yet because you are not of the
world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
John 15:20. "Remember the word that I said to you,
`A servant is not greater than his master.' If they
persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they
will keep yours also. 21. "But all these
things they will do to you for My name's sake,
because they do not know Him who sent Me.
Timothy
3:12. Yes, and all
who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. 13.
But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and
being deceived.
Galatians
4:29. But, as he who was born according
to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according
to the Spirit, even so it is now.
Romans
8:35. Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution,
or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36. As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are
accounted as sheep for the slaughter.'' 37.
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who
loved us.
1
Corinthians 4:12. And we labor, working
with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it; 13. being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring
of all things until now.
2
Corinthians 4:8. We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are
perplexed, but not in despair; 9. persecuted, but not forsaken; struck
down, but not destroyed 10. always carrying about in the body the dying
of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our
body. 11. For we who live are
always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also
may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
Matthew
3:11. "I indeed baptize you with
water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose
sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you
with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Psalms
66:10. For You, O God, have proved us; You have refined us as silver is refined.
11. You brought us into the net; You laid affliction
on our backs. 12. You have caused men
to ride over our heads; We went through fire and
through water; But You brought us out to rich fulfillment.
Mark 9:49. "For everyone
will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with
salt.
1
Corinthians 3:13. Everyone's work will become manifest; for the Day will
declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is.
Luke
21:11. "And there will be great
earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be
fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
12. "But before all these
things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute
you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought
before kings and rulers for My name's sake.
The church of the gentile nations are not excluded
from great tribulation.
Revelation 7:9. After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing
before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm
branches in their hands, 10. and crying
out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on
the throne, and to the Lamb!''
Revelation 7:14. And I said to him, "Sir, you know.'' So
he said to me, "These are the ones who come out of
the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the
blood of the Lamb.
John 16:33. "These things I have spoken to you, that
in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have
tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.''
1
Thessalonians 1:6. And you became
followers of us and of the Lord, having received the Word
in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,
Matthew
5:10. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven. 11. "Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say
all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 12.
"Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in
heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who
were before you.
Jeremiah
20:12. But, O Lord of hosts, You who test the righteous, and see the mind and heart, let me
see Your vengeance on them; for I have pleaded my cause before You.
James 5:10. My brethren, take the prophets, who spoke in
the name of the Lord, as an example of suffering and
patience. 11. Indeed we count them blessed
who endure. You have heard of the perseverance
of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord that the Lord is very
compassionate and merciful.
Study the scriptures and you will see that
the church of God does not become stronger during prosperity but falls away
into apostasy. You are not better than Jesus and the apostles so stop looking
for a pretribulation rapture and watch the Word of God, studying the end times
to prepare yourself and others for the great evil which is to come upon the
whole world.
Daniel
11:32. "Those
who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt
with smooth words; but the people who know their
God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits. 33.
"And those of the people who understand
shall instruct many; yet for many days they shall fall by sword and
flame, by captivity and plundering. 34.
"Now when they fall, they shall be aided with a little help; but
many shall join with them by flatteries. 35.
"And some of those of understanding
shall fall, to refine them, purge them, and make them
white, until the time of the end; because it is still for the appointed
time.
