0094. Apostates From the Faith

Apostates From the Faith

The Book of Jude stands as a preface to the Revelation. It particularly presents the conditions that will prevail during the days that close the present age and that immediately precede the manifestation of the man of sin.

There are many signs of the Lord’s soon Coming, but of these none stand forth more clearly than two: First, the prevalence of the Advent cry, "Behold, the Bridegroom cometh"; and Second, the prevalence of the apostasy from the faith.

Believers need to be informed concerning the wide sweep of the denials of the faith, that meet us today on every hand.

The apostasy has gotten a strong and unyielding grip on our schools and colleges. Students about to enter college would do well to "Stop, Look and Listen," before making choice of the college where they are preparing to spend the four most formative years of their lives.

The apostasy has entrenched itself in many a supposedly orthodox pulpit. Churches calling pastors need to look carefully into the doctrinal beliefs of the men they are considering to lead their flocks.

The apostasy has even entered the foreign mission fields, and numerous men and women are teaching and preaching to the heathen an ethical gospel, filled with denials of the faith. In some mission fields, such as in China, certain missionaries who still believe the old Book, have banded themselves together into a union in order to contend for the faith once for all delivered.

The apostasy is here, and a study of Jude, which so clearly describes the twentieth century apostates, will not be amiss.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR