Continuing with the second chapter of the Book of Isaiah:

They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. In our day the world is attempting to establish peace through an increasingly authoritative and powerful United Nations. Peace will never come through the United Nations. What will come will be the wickedest rule ever to curse the peoples of the earth, the rule of Antichrist and the False Prophet.

Well-meaning people hope the United Nations will bring peace. But the wicked will seize control of the United Nation and the final result will be vicious persecution of the Christians and Jews. There will be no genuine peace until Jesus Christ returns. You can count on this.

Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD. As we make our decision to relinquish our decisions to the Lord, to lose our life in the Lord instead of trying to save it, to trust Him with all our joyous hopes, to put our treasures in Heaven, take up our cross, and follow Jesus, the light of the Lord arises in our heart. As we walk in that light the blood of Jesus Christ keeps us free from all condemnation and we have fellowship with God.

But when we persist in walking in the darkness of our self-will the blood of Jesus Christ does not keep us without condemnation and we do not have fellowship with the Father, even though we make a profession of faith in Christ. The Evangelical congregations of our day need to understand this; it is not always made clear to them.

If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. (I John 1:6—NIV)

You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob.

We are in a period of apostasy today, especially in the United States. Instead of the Gospel of the Kingdom being preached we have a collection of myths about grace that requires no new creation, mansions in Heaven, and an unscriptural "rapture" that will take us to Heaven. It is this unscriptural, ear-tickling "gospel" that accounts for the eternal babyhood of the believers. Our country is in moral chaos because there is no light of good works coming from the believers, just a lot of grumbling about how terribly the unsaved people are behaving.

They are full of superstitions from the East. Our teaching about Heaven comes from the religions of the East. Making our eternal home in Heaven is not a scriptural hope. The term "mansions" is a mistranslation of a Greek word that should be rendered rooms, or abiding places. I suppose every educated Christian understands this but we keep on with our unscriptural traditions.

They practice divination like the Philistines. In the Scripture divination is associated with sorcery. The faith and prosperity messages are forms of sorcery. They seek to apply spiritual principles to affect the physical realm. I think such practices will increase in the future. We are so backslidden we cannot tell the difference between the human application of spiritual principles, and faith in God. We have faith in faith rather than faith in Jesus Christ.

To be continued.