The preachers of today who are saying to the believers in effect, "Take your bill and change the amount you owe the Lord," are doing them a terrible disservice. They are leaving the people with the impression they can avoid the suffering that all true Christians endure as their personalities are transformed, and still rule with Christ. God will not permit this and so the ministers who are currying favor with the people by changing the amount they owe the Lord, so to speak, are really their worst enemies. They are taking their crown of rulership from them.

Unless I am mistaken, many of today's American Christians when they die are going to find that by trusting in lawless grace and the pre-tribulation rapture to save them and bring them to Heaven they have missed the plan of God for their lives. They did not receive the love of the truth and God has deluded them, just as Paul warned. This is a very serious problem in America and unless God blesses us with tremendous trouble, trouble that will bring us back to the fear of God, we are not going to have much of a resurrection. We may not be removed from the Kingdom of God but the rich inheritance of coheirship with Christ will have been lost forever.

These are serious days indeed. We have turned away from God with our foolish teaching about grace and the rapture, and our country is in moral chaos because of the wrong doctrine in the churches. Let us now turn with a glad heart to the Lord and begin to keep His commandments and to prepare ourselves for the age of moral horrors we are entering. If we will guard the word of His patience He will guard us, keeping us from the sin so available in our culture.

Numerous Christian leaders and people are being torn down from their position with Christ at the right hand of God by the pornography available on the Internet. Don't you be one of them! Divine grace does not cover this sort of behavior. God sees what you are doing! Christ knows your works!

Now we have said the Morning Star is Christ and its rising means the day of the Lord is being born in our personality. We have stressed that awesome authority and power will not be given to people whose life is not Christ. The Bible says, "When Christ who is our life shall appear, then we shall appear with Him in glory." We have to be crucified so it is Christ who is living in us. Otherwise we are neither eligible (in terms of the Scripture) nor competent to return with Jesus Christ and govern the people on earth.

If you are acquainted with church people you can see how desperately they need to understand the importance of dying with Christ and living with Christ. Their concept now is that Christ is coming to catch them up to Heaven, bring them through a judgment seat where they will hear nothing but praise for their behavior, and then attend a marriage banquet. After seven years of living the good life in Heaven they will suddenly be transformed into regal kings and ferocious warriors and fall upon Antichrist, the False Prophet, the kings of the earth, Satan, and the fallen angels, like "wolves upon the fold." This of course is nonsense, pure mythology.

It really is time for a reformation of Christian thinking.

To be continued.