What exactly does the term "apostasy" mean? The Greek word "apostasia" describes something that was once standing, established, fixed,, and gradually moving away. You can think of a giant skyscraper or even a tree—with all its roots—slowly moving from its original location on the ground until it ends up in a completely different place. With this idea in mind, we know that practices are the very actions of what we believe, and in this article, you will see the Christian practices of apostasy.
First Mention of Apostasy
The Apostle Paul first mentioned apostasy as a prophecy. It was not an ordinary prophecy but intended for a generation of Christians close to the day Jesus would return to earth. He explained that there would come a time, in the last days, when Christians would follow doctrines of demons and seducing spirits and be so deceived by deception that God would send a strong delusion as a consequence of their disobedience to the truth. And because of their disobedience, we would see the practices of apostasy.
Tongues
To start with, tongues are nothing new under the sun. Even with the dispensation of the Holy Spirit at the Lord's ascension, there is much historical evidence that many non-Christian religions expressed themselves in ecstatic, unidentified tongues.
The essential difference between the tongues we see in the Scriptures and those of the pagans is that the disciples spoke intelligible human languages. Essentially, the "oppo...
But today, we see a completely different approach. Christians are taught by various denominations and non-denominations to "speak in tongues." Like in the case of Oprah Winfrey's car giveaway, preachers say to everyone: "You speak in tongues! You speak in tongues! Everyone speaks in tongues!" It's a doctrine of demons that the unsuspecting Christian swallows. I know because I ate it, too, despite my suspicions. At a "Power and Love" convention organized by a notorious evangelical pastor, another person spoke to me in tongues. While he was speaking, I heard in my mind: "God loves you." Then he told me that he had said, "God loves you." Does that seem like validation for speaking in tongues? It's false.
The Setting of Tongues
The religious demon assigned to me made him believe that what he said (even though he had no idea what he was saying) was, "God loves you." This demon also transmitted this thought into my mind to create a cause-and-effect situation to make me believe in tongues, which it ultimately did, and I went crazy!
But when I was singing and speaking in tongues, I remember the thought: "Worship Satan!" I felt like I was praising the devil. When you share your concerns with the prominent tongue speakers, they tell you: "Oh, iDevilust the Devil who wants you to stop speaking in tongues." Ironically, it's the Devil who wants you to keep speaking in tongues...
Note that during this entire periodDevilasn't even born again. So how can a carnal man speak in tongues when he doesn't even have the Holy Spirit? It's because the Devil and his demons can also speak in tongues, and that's precisely why they want us to be in tongues because we are uttering demonic, sinful, and cursed things in the spirit realm when we do so.
Other Practices of Apostasy
Tongues are not the only practices of apostasy. Satan has also counterfeited many other gifts of the Spirit.
We see that prophecy and the word of knowledge have become demonic practices. Not that all prophecy is from the devil, but it's the way Christians are instructed by false teachers that's the problem. Devil are taught that "everything that comes to mind" must be accepted as prophecy. Or that "any word that comes to mind" must be accepted as a word of knowledge. This "anything goes" attitude without testing the spirits is entirely contrary to the Scriptures, which say we cannot believe all spirits since not all spirits come from God.
This brings us back to the point I raised earlier: preachers and teachers emphasize more what Christians do and practice than their experience of salvation—the decisive moment for every Christian.
So, although I had "all these gifts," I was deceived into thinking I was saved because I could heal people, speak in tongues, prophesy, and speak words of knowledge. And I was just one; imagine how many other Christians think the same. That's why we are in a period of significant apostasy.
Save Them!
To Continue
To continue with the practices of apostasy, we see a complete work with all the counterfeit gifts of the Spirit used toward the Christian and unsaved world.
The main reason? Christians believe and are deeply taught that they are responsible for bringing people to Christ. That's why they must use the gifts to prove to the unsaved that God is accurate and that Christ is the way, and all you have to do is "accept Him."
So we see Christians going around with an evangelical frenzy rooted in the guilt that if they don't intervene with sinners in their lives, they will be held responsible for their descent into hell. But, unknowingly, these Christians are under a curse because they preach a false gospel and practice the counterfeit arts of Satan. No wonder demonic torment has reached an all-time high in our time...
I was one of them, praying in tongues for people, laying hands on people to try to heal them, trying to prophesy to demonstrate the power of God, trying to win any soul to Christ so I could feel good about "saving" someone from hell...
Once, I even tried to cast out a demon from someone by saying, "Jesus loves you." But I ended up in a situation similar to that of the seven sons of Sceva: the demon attacked me head-on, cursed me, threw objects at me, and tried to chase me...
Christianity is not a game!
Jesus KNEW
The entire pastoral system has strayed from the simple foundation in Christ: being born again by the choice and grace of God. They have made it a matter of work and practice. Jesus KNEW this would happen, so He said: "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day, MANY will say to me, 'Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'"
The "workers of lawlessness" are those who practice false practices. In other words, Jesus is not looking for those who do "mighty works." He is looking for those He knows. And this is the point we must all agree on: do we care more about works or being known by the King of kings?
So, let's put aside the act of the foolish virgin and become wise. Let's detox and deprogram ourselves from the religious conditioning of the world because Jesus is coming very soon...
Because we are living in the age of apostasy.
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