The majority of believers appear to be falling into the moral filthiness of Babylon (man-directed Christianity). They are foolish, desiring to be entertained, heaping to themselves teachers who for money and popularity tickle their ears.

Sometimes the teachers of today refer to the Scriptures. But there is no power in their utterances because they are ministering from their flesh and soul and not from their death on the cross with the Lord Jesus.

The battle is for the mind. Antichrist is a deceiver. The Christians are inundated every day by information and persuasion from the television, radio, and reading material. The temptation is to yield to the media and allow Satan-inspired people to do our thinking for us.

The wise saint spends little time listening to the knowledge and opinions of the ungodly. He is turning to prayer as an alternative to the communication devices of the world.

We must be renewed by the transformation of our mind. If we do not seek God with diligence and intensity we surely will allow the thinking of Antichrist to conform us to the world system.

Change into the image of the world is taking place in the minds of the majority of Christians. They are not offering their bodies as a living sacrifice to the Lord and so God is not sealing their minds with His will. They are not guarding the Word of Christ's patience and so Christ will not guard them during the hour of temptation.

It is our point of view that many Jews will be driven from their places of security during the tribulation just as Jacob and his sons were driven from the Holy Land during the famine. The elect of Israel will be reconciled to their "Joseph." Hopefully many of us Gentiles will be used of the Lord in the process of reconciliation.

There will be one elect, one purified remnant consisting of both Jews and Gentiles by physical birth.

However, it will not be as has been true historically where the Christians have attempted to force the Jews to become Gentiles, to leave their culture and heritage. The reconciliation of the Jews to Christ will be, as is happening today in so many instances, a direct revelation of Christ to the individual Jew. Let each of us Gentiles be sensitive to the Lord's will so we do not hinder what God is doing among His chosen people.

We have stated that Ezekiel, Chapter 37 sets forth four phases of restoration:

Restructuring what has been dead and scattered.

Breathing resurrection life into what has been restructured.

Bringing the restructured army into the land of Israel.

Bringing into oneness what has been divided.

Let us apply these four phases to spiritual Israel.

In our day the Body of Christ is a valley of dry bones. But there is a stirring. Believers in various places are being awakened by the Spirit of God to the deplorable, chaotic condition of the churches. Truly, the Christian churches of our day are becoming prisons of unclean spirits.

To be continued.