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WHAT THE WORLD WHAT THE WORLD 7
HAS BEEN LIKE WILL BE LIKE
“…SHOW YOURSELVES TO BE
FROM THE BEGINNING… BLAMELESS AND GUILELESS, UNTIL THE END…

“…ALTHOUGH THEY KNEW GOD, INNOCENT AND “BUT UNDERSTAND THIS, THAT IN THE LAST DAYS
THEY DID NOT GLORIFY HIM AS GOD… UNCONTAMINATED, WILL COME (SET IN) PERILOUS TIMES OF GREAT
BECAME FUTILE IN THEIR THOUGHTS, CHILDREN OF GOD
AND THEIR FOOLISH HEARTS WERE WITHOUT BLEMISH STRESS AND TROUBLE [HARD TO DEAL WITH AND
DARKENED. PROFESSING TO BE WISE, (FAULTLESS, UNREBUKABLE) HARD TO BEAR]. FOR PEOPLE WILL BE LOVERS OF
THEY BECAME FOOLS…THEREFORE GOD IN THE MIDST OF
GAVE THEM UP TO UNCLEANNESS, IN THE A CROOKED AND WICKED SELF AND [UTTERLY] SELF-CENTERED, LOVERS OF
LUSTS OF THEIR HEARTS… EXCHANGED GENERATION [SPIRITUALLY MONEY AND AROUSED BY AN INORDINATE
THE TRUTH OF GOD FOR THE LIE, PERVERTED AND PERVERSE]
AND WORSHIPPED AND SERVED THE AMONG WHOM YOU ARE SEEN [GREEDY] DESIRE FOR WEALTH, PROUD AND
CREATURE (Satan) RATHER THAN THE AS BRIGHT LIGHTS IN THE ARROGANT AND CONTEMPTUOUS BOASTERS. THEY
CREATOR (God) … WORLD, HOLDING OUT [T0 IT]
FOR THIS REASON GOD GAVE THEM UP AND OFFERING [TO ALL MEN] WILL BE ABUSIVE (BLASPHEMOUS, SCOFFING),
TO VILE PASSIONS…AS THEY DID NOT THE WORD OF LIFE…” DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS, UNGRATEFUL, UNHOLY
LIKE TO RETAIN GOD IN THEIR Phil.2:15-16 Amplified AND PROFANE.[THEY WILL BE] WITHOUT NATURAL
KNOWLEDGE, GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
A DEBASED MIND…BEING FILLED WITH [HUMAN] AFFECTION (CALLOUS AND INHUMAN),
ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, RELENTLESS (ADMITTING OF NO TRUCE OR
SEXUAL IMMORALITY, WICKEDNESS,
COVETOUSNESS, MALICIOUSNESS, FULL APPEASEMENT); [THEY WILL BE] SLANDERERS
OF ENVY, MURDER, STRIFE, DECEIT, EVIL- (FALSE ACCUSERS, TROUBLEMAKERS),
MINDEDNESS; THEY WERE WHISPERERS,
BACKBITERS, HATERS OF GOD, VIOLENT, INTEMPERATE AND LOOSE IN MORALS AND
PROUD, BOASTERS, INVENTORS OF EVIL CONDUCT, UNCONTROLLED AND FIERCE, HATERS
THINGS, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS,
UNDISCERNING, UNTRUSTWORTHY, OF GOOD.[THEY WILL BE] TREACHEROUS
UNLOVING, UNFORGIVING, [BETRAYERS], RASH, [AND] INFLATED WITH SELF-
UNMERCIFUL…”
Excerpts Rom. 1:21-32 CONCEIT. [THEY WILL BE] LOVERS OF SENSUAL
PLEASURES AND VAIN AMUSEMENTS MORE THAN

AND RATHER THAN LOVERS OF GOD. FOR
[ALTHOUGH] THEY HOLD A FORM OF PIETY (TRUE

RELIGION), THEY DENY AND REJECT AND ARE
STRANGERS TO THE POWER OF IT [THEIR CONDUCT

BELIES THE GENUINENESS OF THEIR PROFESSION].
AVOID [ALL] SUCH PEOPLE

[TURN AWAY FROM THEM].”
2 Tim 3:1-5 Amplified Bible

The above passage from Philippians depicts what God expects from His people who live “in the midst
of a crooked and wicked generation.” Notice there is no mandate given to FIX what is wrong with the
world, but rather to live in the midst of it as children of God who will remain “blameless, guileless,
innocent, uncontaminated, without blemish and faultless.” The apostle James defined “pure and
undefiled religion before the Father” as consisting of “…keeping oneself unspotted from the world”
(1 Pet. 1:27b). For the most part, American Christianity has missed the point: it has not been called to
REMOVE THE SPOTS FROM THE WORLD, but rather to remain UNSPOTTED FROM THE WORLD.
It is folly and futility to pursue the ideology of changing what the prophetic word tells us will mark the
last days prior to the coming of Jesus Christ:

“BUT WICKED MEN AND IMPOSTORS WILL GO ON FROM BAD TO WORSE, DECEIVING AND LEADING
ASTRAY OTHERS AND BEING DECEIVED AND LED ASTRAY THEMSELVES.” 2 Tim. 3:13 Amplified

Electing a Christian President is not going to change that prophesied outcome. Neither is legislating the
moral laws of God on the immoral populace by means of controlling the vote of the Supreme Court
Justices. The Christian Body must stop focusing upon how depraved mankind is, and start focusing
upon what we are supposed to be like as we live in the midst of a crooked and perverse society. Jesus
Himself reminded His disciples that the last days would be like the days of Noah and the days of Lot
( Matt. 24:37, Luke 17:28-29). Noah and Lot’s days were summed up as:

“THEN THE LORD SAW THAT THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT ON THE EARTH,
AND THAT EVERY INTENT OF THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART WAS ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY.” Gen.6:5

“AS SODOM AND GOMORRAH…HAVING GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER TO SEXUAL IMMORALITY
AND GONE AFTER STRANGE FLESH, ARE SET FORTH AS AN EXAMPLE…: Jude 7

“…THE MEN OF THE CITY, THE MEN OF SODOM, BOTH OLD AND YOUNG, ALL THE PEOPLE FROM EVERY
QUARTER, SURROUNDED THE HOUSE. AND THEY CALLED TO LOT AND SAID TO HIM, "WHERE ARE THE
MEN WHO CAME TO YOU TONIGHT? BRING THEM OUT TO US THAT WE MAY KNOW THEM CARNALLY.“

Gen 19:4-5

Yet, in the midst of a clearly prophesied repeat performance, much of American Christianity is bent on
legislating a ban against gay marriage. Will such an endeavor be any more successful than the 30-plus
year campaign (Roe vs. Wade) to legislate laws against abortion? Have we forgotten how miserable
the legislated Prohibition era was in the 20’s? Why is it that we go down the same pathways and yet
expect different results? The answer is a painful reality- the ignoring of the prophetic word which was
given as a light to Christians that is to shine into a dark place! (2 Pet. 1:19)