Are You an Inhabitant of the Earth?
Scripture: Revelation 17:2Devotional Series: Conflict with the Whore
Teaching: Conflict With The Whore pt. 1 (SUN_AM 2021-01-31) by Pastor Star R Scott
What is the false church going to look like? Well, one of the things we know is that this whore is ultimately going to receive justice (it says judgement). Look who this church is and who it hangs with. “The kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication” (Revelation 17:2). Now, her fornication is her doing what? This whore is hooking up with the world’s system. This great whore is being accepted by the world’s system. We’re going to see, in this day that we’re coming into, a church that is accepted and one that’s not. We’ve seen it in other parts of the world and our lives. In Russia and China, it’s called the state church and they are licensed by the government. I would rather choose to be ordained by God than licensed by the government; amen?
The world has its own system, its own standards and this church is willing to compromise for this association. “The inhabitants of the earth”—let’s say it another way, the people that are attending these churches had been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. They are the ones that are going to buy into, promote and change our history on whims. School systems will buy into that, the churches will buy into that. Do you understand that we are already being programmed to get in line and march in line and do what we’re told and accept all of the rules?
I was out walking yesterday, and I was confronted by somebody. I didn’t have a mask on and they wanted to know where my mask was. I explained I’d been through a stint in the hospital with pneumonia, and I’m back out here trying to build my lungs up and get healthy, and I can’t get enough air with a mask on. She kind of looked at me and said, “Oh, I understand,” and she took off. There was still a reasonableness that’s going to be gone and it’s leaving quickly. As it pertains to the Gospel, we don’t have the right to choose whether people are reasonable, whether they’ll listen to what we have to say. We’ve been commanded to preach it whether they’re going to listen to it, find it reasonable, find it offensive, hate us for it, look to kill us; even the members of our own households, your flesh and blood, your relatives, will turn you in to this new system that’s going to rise up. Those that hate the true church of Jesus Christ will delight in your death. The one’s that have wanted you to compromise over the years so you can continue to include them in your lives. You can draw whatever conclusion you want; I’m just telling you what the Bible says about your relatives, your family, your friends that will have you killed and believe they are doing God’s service (John 16:2). So, let’s just read the Bible and see what it says is awaiting us. Is that Bible or not? “The inhabitants of the earth are drunk with the wine of the fornication.” In other words, how much worldliness is going on in the hearts and minds of the professed church in that hour?
The world has its own system, its own standards and this church is willing to compromise for this association. “The inhabitants of the earth”—let’s say it another way, the people that are attending these churches had been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. They are the ones that are going to buy into, promote and change our history on whims. School systems will buy into that, the churches will buy into that. Do you understand that we are already being programmed to get in line and march in line and do what we’re told and accept all of the rules?
I was out walking yesterday, and I was confronted by somebody. I didn’t have a mask on and they wanted to know where my mask was. I explained I’d been through a stint in the hospital with pneumonia, and I’m back out here trying to build my lungs up and get healthy, and I can’t get enough air with a mask on. She kind of looked at me and said, “Oh, I understand,” and she took off. There was still a reasonableness that’s going to be gone and it’s leaving quickly. As it pertains to the Gospel, we don’t have the right to choose whether people are reasonable, whether they’ll listen to what we have to say. We’ve been commanded to preach it whether they’re going to listen to it, find it reasonable, find it offensive, hate us for it, look to kill us; even the members of our own households, your flesh and blood, your relatives, will turn you in to this new system that’s going to rise up. Those that hate the true church of Jesus Christ will delight in your death. The one’s that have wanted you to compromise over the years so you can continue to include them in your lives. You can draw whatever conclusion you want; I’m just telling you what the Bible says about your relatives, your family, your friends that will have you killed and believe they are doing God’s service (John 16:2). So, let’s just read the Bible and see what it says is awaiting us. Is that Bible or not? “The inhabitants of the earth are drunk with the wine of the fornication.” In other words, how much worldliness is going on in the hearts and minds of the professed church in that hour?