Things Are Changing So Quickly

Dr. Couch, I know of no time in history when things changed so quickly morally, spiritually, socially, and economically, in our world. What's happening? ANSWER:  It's the apostasy, and it's setting us up for persecution, but also for the rapture of the church. The rapture removes believers just before the seven years of tribulation and wrath begins—this is a judgment upon the people of earth. We are galloping in that direction!    There are specific steps that have brought us to this point: (1) we at first reacted against the evil and sin that we saw coming against us. But we were powerless to really bring about change. No one listened to what we had to say. (2) but then, we began to endure what was happening. We accepted abortion and homosexuality and were unable to bring about conviction in our society. Then we started to (3) tolerate what was happening—even accepting and participating in a certain humor with those who are gross sinners. From (4) enduring and tolerating what was happening we began to assimilate what was going on. Not that we fell into the sins themselves but we allowed the evil to be at least a part of our thinking processes! We are no longer shocked and disturbed about what we are seeing and hearing! The final stage is (5) that we began to forget the fact that there was a day that we rejected the sin that has grown up in our midst. We accept these sins as part of normalcy.    Statistics now show that the younger Christian sees no big problem with abortion or homosexuality. He thinks that the older believers are overreacting to these vices and evils. The younger crowd cannot remember a day when these sins were almost non-existent, or were but buried in the deep slime pits of our society. But those of us who are older certainly do remember!    Understand, there is no turning back. I doubt that we will ever see a return to moral sanity in America or any other Western nation. We are into the apostasy—the falling away!    Thanks for asking.    Dr. Mal Couch