Influential Pastor David Jeremiah has voiced his concerns about the seemingly increasing number of pastors and churches straying from biblical truth, warning that this trend indicates the “falling away” Scripture prophesies ahead of the End Times.
In an interview with The Christian Post, the 82-year-old founder of Turning Point Radio and Television ministries said that “one of the things the Bible says is that during the time when we’re anticipating the rapture, there will be what they call the falling away, the apostasy, is what theologians call it.”
“And if you study that, what it teaches is that there will be a time when people who once embraced the truth will fall away from the truth, and it will be an epidemic of this,” said Jeremiah.
Jeremiah, who also serves as the senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, California, cited examples of pastors renouncing their beliefs, deconstructing or facing moral failures that disqualify them from ministry, indicating a trend of spiritual decline.
“Hardly a month goes by where you don’t hear somebody that you thought was straight and going in the right way and doing the right things and teaching the right truth, and now they don’t believe this anymore, or they’ve gotten in trouble, and they’re no longer in the ministry anymore,” he said.
“The enemy is is at work. The Bible says Satan goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. And he doesn’t devour our bodies. Obviously, he devours our influence. And he’s been really busy doing that. He’s devouring the influence of many people who said that they were Christians. A lot of young guys who I know are saying, ‘I don’t believe in there’s anything wrong with abortion,’ or ‘I don’t believe there’s anything wrong with homosexuality’ or all of these other issues. They once did, but now they don’t. That’s the falling away. That’s what the Bible says is going to happen, and it’s happening.”
This is an article from the Christian web magazine Christian Post. The full article can be read at https://www.christianpost.com/news/pastor-apostasy-is-a-great-falling-away.html
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