'They Say Good is Bad and Bad is Good'

This is a quote from Isaiah the prophet (41:23) that this will happen in the end times and is actually happening now.

God's standard of being a good person is very different to what we see as good. If we ask someone if they think they are a good person or not, they will often compare themselves to someone like a murderer or a thief and say that they in comparison are good. However, most of us have lied (even small ones) or spoken badly about another (bearing false witness) which are two of the 10 Commandments, so in God's eyes we are not good people. Romans 3:10 says "There is noone righteous, not even one." Repentance is mentioned over 70 times in the Bible so it is important to be obedient to please God and turn away from sin.

The two golden commandments given by Jesus in the New Testament are: you should love God with all your heart, soul and mind and love your neighbour as yourself (Matthew 22:37-39); as you can see these two commandments cover the 10 commandments. A holy life is proof of our salvation so following Jesus's standards will be something we will be led to do by the Holy Spirit once we're saved.

We have this mentality in this day and age that as long as we're not hurting anyone then we should let people be. But as a christian we know there is a hell and that if people are wilfully sinning and not repenting they will end up there. God has commanded christians to spread the gospel and warn people of the consequences of their actions (1 Cor 6 please see below). However nowadays, if we try and warn people we are called intolerant and unkind: if you saw someone swimming happily in calm waters but the water was flowing slowing toward a precipice, with a waterfall, you would warn them wouldn't you? However, we are no longer allowed to warn people. I was taken off YouTube for spreading the gospel, just Bible verses. If you warned a gay person that they needed to be born again and to repent, the world would seem to come down on you like a ton of bricks, yet to a christian this was a loving gesture. Most people take offence to the pure values of God.

The churches now are obeying society rather than God and accepting gay preachers etc... all in the name of love, but not in the name of God's love. It is pretty much accepted among true preachers that we are living in the end days. The Mark of the Beast is around the corner with contactless payments replacing cash leading to payments using the right hand or the forehead. The fact that all Bible prophecy so far has come true and that a third of the Bible is prophecy alone should make people stand up and listen. The Bible says that God has allowed the Devil to rule the world (he is still subject to God as you can see in the story of Job) and to christians this is very apparent. 'The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God' (2 Corin 4:4). "We know that we are of God, and the whole world is in the power of the evil one” (1 John 5:19).

A few signs of an upside down world - that bad is seen as good:

1)The Bible says that there will be false preachers. As I have already mentioned the church is accepting gay preachers. Many preachers also do not preach the gospel or the salvation message because as I have been told by a preacher, they do not want to scare and therefore lose their congregation thus sending 'christian' churchgoers to hell.

Female vicars when the Bible explicitly says a woman should not teach men or talk in the church.

2)The celebration of abortion which is in essence killing an unborn child.

3) The social norm to drink a lot of alcohol and party hard.

4) Sex outside of marriage is considered normal now but is considered a great sin by God.

5) Pornography is normalized which can turn addictive and lead to more and more depravation.

6) Choosing any identity: opposite sex, animal, inanimate object (is actually making children confused and depressed) and is wrong in the eyes of God. He knit us in our mothers womb.

7) Choosing a partner that could be a doll, an animal, an object ... and marrying them.

8) Not disciplining children or giving them boundaries so they grow up directionless, lost, confused and unhappy.

9) People putting themselves first when the Bible says put others and Jesus first.

10) Pride seen as a good thing. People not listening to others as they believe they alone know the truth and the facts of some issue. Pride in intellectual ability and pride in having lots of money. God asks us to be humble.

11) Embracing New Age values which oppose Biblical values. The New Age is obsessed with Self: Self improvement, self empowerment, self analysis, finding self etc ... As I said before we need to put others and Jesus before us. Self empowerment is unbiblical as our power comes from God if he chooses to give it to us.

12) Self reliance. We should rely on God only. He is our protector and our deliverer. He will meet our needs and help us when we are in trouble. We are to cast our burdens onto Him so we no longer have to carry them. We should have faith that God will have the answer.

We have all sinned. 'For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.' (Romans 3:23). However, there is an easy solution for those who want to change and be saved. We pray through Jesus to our Heavenly Father and confess our sins and repent (turn away from them). 'If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.' (1 John 1-9). Salvation is simple 'For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.' (John 3:16) As I said before, a sign we are truly saved is that we follow the Holy Spirit and live a righteous life pleasing to God. It is important to be fully immersed water and Holy Spirit baptised also.

Relevant Bible quotes:

'Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place-unless you repent.' (Rev 2:5)

'There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents , ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God - having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people' (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

'And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another; men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting.' (Romans 1: 27-28)

'Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."' (John 14:6)

'Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.' (1 Cor 6:9-10)