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I think we have finally gotten over any love of Halloween in our churches.\u00a0 That pagan holiday with its ghosts and goblins, witches and broomsticks, can thankfully be gone from our church calendars.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know of any Christian church that celebrated it this year.\u00a0 When the origins of customs remain unknown and harmless (such as birthday cakes or where the days of the week got their names) we may use and enjoy without offense.\u00a0 But when the pagan and anti-Christian meanings reappear we must set them aside.<\/span><\/p>\n

But in this holiday season, indeed in the end of this present age, I fear a deeper and far more deceptive danger lurks within our churches.\u00a0 From my periodic reading of the book of Jude as well as 2 Peter 2, I was struck by the reality that in the last times there will be false prophets among the people (2 Pet. 2:1) and certain men crept in unawares (Jude 4) who will do irreparable harm to the churches.\u00a0 We usually call such people apostates, people who are pretenders and not real believers yet who stay among the believers and lead them astray into much unchristian belief and activity.\u00a0 We have known these prophecies of Jude and Peter but it had not struck me in such a way that if we are indeed in the end times we must be seeing the very fulfillment of these predictions.\u00a0 We could call this the great apostasy that will come at the end of the age.\u00a0 We might call this the signs of the times.\u00a0 But by whatever description, Scripture often says that such times will come when the end of the age of grace is near.\u00a0 Paul tells Timothy, \u201cNow the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils (1 Tim. 4:1).\u00a0 In the second epistle he says again, \u201cThis know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come\u201d (2 Tim. 3:1).\u00a0 And again, \u201cFor the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears\u201d or who tickle the ears (2 Tim. 4:3).\u00a0 In both the book of Jude and Second Peter, these apostates come into the churches, among God\u2019s people, therefore before the rapture of the church, and draw away the disciples after them.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m certainly not a date-setter nor do I believe that anything yet has to happen before the rapture may occur, but I can still believe that these verses speak of a phenomenon that is happening in our day and age.\u00a0 Or I might say it this way, that even if this isn\u2019t THE end of the age, the same things are happening now in our churches that will happen when THE end of the age comes.\u00a0 Either way it is not very pleasant to see the effects of apostasy on the Lord\u2019s churches.<\/p>\n

The Lord had very stern words for the churches at Pergamos and Thyatira for allowing teachers to come in and destroy the flock like Balaam allowed Balak to \u201ccast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols and to commit fornication\u201d (Rev. 2:14), or like Jezebel who seduced Israel to do the same (2:20). If our shoe fits the description of Jude and Peter we will have to wear it also.\u00a0 Jude wanted to write of the common salvation (Jude 3) but this danger is so destructive that he was led by the Holy Spirit to change his subject matter and deal with this error.\u00a0 He urged the believers to \u201cearnestly contend for the faith\u201d and not just sit by and let this cancer progress.\u00a0 But I wonder, at the end of the age, if we will let the disease go or if we will purge it from our bodies.\u00a0 Will the true believers be removed and the apostate church be left to the antichrist?\u00a0 Will the true church remain faithful to the end?\u00a0 Time will tell.<\/p>\n

I find at least twelve damaging characteristics of end-time apostates in Jude and Second Peter. \u00a0One doesn\u2019t have to look far to find parallels in the churches today.\u00a0 In fact, they are so common I don\u2019t even need to find examples to prove my point.\u00a0 The reader, no doubt, will know of many himself.<\/p>\n

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Unsaved<\/h3>\n

The most profound characteristic is that these apostates are not even born again.\u00a0 Jude says they deny \u201cthe only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ\u201d (Jude 4).\u00a0 Peter says they are \u201cfalse\u201d prophets (1), reserved for the day of judgment (9), will \u201cperish in their own corruption\u201d (12), and for whom \u201cthe mist of darkness is reserved forever\u201d (17).\u00a0 A hypocrite in the Bible (contrary to popular belief) is usually a lost person.\u00a0 He is not a true believer living poorly but is a poor unbeliever pretending to live truly, and can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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Among us<\/h3>\n

Jude says they \u201ccrept in unawares\u201d (4) and feast among the believers \u201cwithout fear\u201d of reprisal (12).\u00a0 Peter says they are \u201camong the people\u201d (1) and \u201cfeast with you\u201d (13).\u00a0 Imagine!\u00a0 Like Judas, they have given some testimony of salvation and received baptism. \u00a0Paul told the Galatians they were \u201cfalse brethren unawares brought in\u201d (Gal. 2:4).\u00a0 All of these descriptions come from words that mean to come in stealthily, falsely.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have an \u201ceasy believeism\u201d problem today, we have a \u201cno believeism\u201d problem!\u00a0 We may have made our mistakes in the past by promoting too many quick salvation decisions but even that was better than requiring no specific decision or experience.\u00a0 Today a person is received in the church with a personal angel-sighting story!\u00a0 And they feast among us without fear of conviction.<\/p>\n

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Ungodly<\/h3>\n

Jude uses the word \u201cungodly\u201d six times in this short one-chapter book, four of those times in verse 15.\u00a0 In verse four he simply says of these men that they are \u201cungodly men.\u201d\u00a0 Peter compares them to the ungodly in Noah\u2019s day and those in Sodom and Gomorrah (5-6).\u00a0 \u201cUngodly\u201d (a-sebes<\/i>) is the opposite of \u201cpious\u201d (eu-sebes<\/i>).\u00a0 The ancient name Eusebius comes from the latter.\u00a0 The root (sebos<\/i>) means to venerate, to reverence, to worship, to stand in awe.\u00a0 With an \u201ceu\u201d prefix it means that such people do these things well and are \u201cpious.\u201d\u00a0 With an \u201ca\u201d prefix it means they do not do them at all.<\/p>\n

Is it possible to have people in our churches who do not truly worship God; who do not stand in awe of Him; and who do not show reverence to Him?\u00a0 Jude says that the apostles \u201ctold you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts\u201d (18).\u00a0 Jude\u2019s readers evidently knew these kinds of apostates were there and had done nothing about it.\u00a0 Maybe like the Corinthians (and many today), they boasted in their broad-mindedness (1 Cor. 5:6).<\/p>\n

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Disrespectful<\/h3>\n

\u201cLikewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities\u201d (Jude 8).\u00a0 Peter adds that they are \u201cpresumptuous\u201d and \u201cself-willed\u201d (10).\u00a0 Disrespect has fallen into disrepair today.\u00a0 In those days, however, it was a matter of utmost importance.\u00a0 A man could not hold church office if his children were disrespectful or disobedient (Tit. 1:6).\u00a0 Both Jude and Peter use Michael the archangel as the example of showing respect to authorities, even to Satan, the former Lucifer himself!\u00a0 (Jude 9, 2 Pet. 2:11).\u00a0 But, says Peter, these disrespectful church members are acting like brute beasts (12) who have no conscience of right and wrong and are destroyed without a second thought.\u00a0 These apostates will truly act like \u201canimals\u201d even in the churches.<\/p>\n

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Lustful<\/h3>\n

In both chapters under consideration, more space is given to this vice than any others.\u00a0 Believers who have the Restrainer living within them struggle enough with this sin, but unbelievers who have only the common graces of the world to restrain them, will fall to this sin overtly.\u00a0 These hypocritical apostates turn \u201cthe grace of our God into lasciviousness\u201d (Jude 4), \u201cdefile the flesh\u201d (8), \u201cwalk after their own ungodly lusts\u201d (18), and are \u201csensual\u201d (19).\u00a0 Peter says they have \u201cpernicious ways\u201d (2), have \u201ceyes full of adultery\u201d (14), and \u201callure through the lusts of the flesh\u201d (18).\u00a0 And all of this within the local church!\u00a0 Peter\u2019s statement about adultery may be translated \u201chaving eyes for an adulteress\u201d or someone who is always looking for his next victim.<\/p>\n

Our churches have to take extra precautions because of liabilities as it is.\u00a0 But I wonder if the performance mentality coupled with self-centered immodesty doesn\u2019t also feed this sin of lust.\u00a0 Most modesty is seen as old-fashioned prudishness and even in-house directives for modest dress on the church platform is seen as some kind of legalism.\u00a0 Then we wonder why so many of our own Christian kids have fewer moral standards than the world\u2019s kids.\u00a0 This apostate characteristic will grow worse and worse as the age draws to a close.\u00a0 There will be more \u201clovers of pleasures\u201d than \u201clovers of God\u201d (2 Tim. 3:4).<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Make Merchandise<\/h3>\n

Apostates are in it for what they can get out of it.\u00a0 Jude says they have \u201cmen\u2019s persons in admiration because of advantage\u201d (16).\u00a0 This literally means they \u201cadmire faces for advantage.\u201d\u00a0 Peter says, \u201cthrough covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you\u201d (3).\u00a0 The words \u201cshall make merchandise\u201d come from emporeuomai <\/i>from which we get our word \u201cemporium.\u201d\u00a0 They made God\u2019s house into an emporium, a house of business, or a market place.\u00a0 Jesus used this same word when He\u00a0 aggressively drove such moneychangers from the temple because they had made God\u2019s house of prayer into a house of \u201cmerchandise\u201d (Jn. 2:16).\u00a0 Paul told Timothy that some perverse men think that \u201cgain is godliness\u201d (1 Tim. 6:5) or, literally, \u201cthat godliness is a means of gain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Surely we have many today that are using the church to make a lot of money.\u00a0 Like lust, this has always been a problem in ministry, but the avenues for revenues are broader than ever.\u00a0 Dan Lucarini, in his new book (see my review above), says of the contemporary Christian music business,<\/p>\n

Now you know the truth about the images you are \u2018allowed\u2019 to see.\u00a0 There are powerful and prideful creative forces at work behind the scenes, spending enormous sums of money, time and talent and using all the tricks of the trade.\u00a0 The sole purpose is to manipulate the images of the same artists and worship leaders who are supposed to lead us in authentic praise and worship.\u00a0 No matter what compromised excuse they may give for this, it is no less than \u2018Christianized\u2019 idol worship and the marketing of worship for a profit.1<\/sup><\/p>\n

Whether it is the health, wealth, and prosperity gospel or the snake-oil healer, we should say with Peter, \u201cThy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.\u00a0 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God\u201d (Acts 8:20-21).<\/p>\n

Promise Liberty<\/h3>\n

Peter says that, \u201cwhile they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage\u201d (19).\u00a0 Jude refers to the same when he says that these apostates turn \u201cthe grace of God into lasciviousness\u201d (4).\u00a0 Paul said that in the last days these will have \u201ca form of godliness\u201d but will deny \u201cthe power thereof\u201d (2 Tim. 3:5).\u00a0 Peter ended his chapter with the sad words about many being led down a false path to liberty but finding servitude to the world and the flesh to which they return like a dog to his vomit (20-22).\u00a0 Many years ago J. C. Ryle wrote, “I should like to know what doctrine of the Gospel has not been abused.\u00a0 Salvation by grace has been made a pretext for licentiousness.\u201d2<\/sup> The abuse is abundantly apparent in our day.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And So . . . .<\/b><\/h3>\n

I could add many more to the list from these two chapters.\u00a0 Without a doubt our day fits the end time scenario described by Jude and Peter.\u00a0 We cannot know if this is THE end time or whether our time is just amazingly similar to that time.\u00a0 In either case, the situation for the church is dire.\u00a0 Yet for every Pergamos and Thyatira there is a Smyrna and a Philadelphia.\u00a0 For every Balaam and Jezebel there is a Daniel and an Esther.\u00a0 Even if we have left our first love we can remember, repent, and redo so we won\u2019t be removed.\u00a0 May God give us grace to that end.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Notes:<\/address>\n
1. Dan Lucarini, It\u2019s Not About The Music <\/i>(England & USA:\u00a0 Evangelical Press, 2010) 129.<\/address>\n
2. J.C. Ryle, \u201cWatch\u201d, Our Blessed Hope<\/i>, Joseph Seiss, ed. (Philadelphia: Garner, 1884) 47.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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