The Apostle Paul writes in 2 Thessalonians about a falling away ahead of the return of the Lord. He also says in 1 Timothy 4:1-2, “Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron.”

While theologians debate what this actually means, trends in the United States and other countries indicate that there is an exodus movement away from religion. This has been taking place in America over the last several years, and the “church” appears to be losing ground faster each passing year in its duties to make disciples, as evidenced by recent polls.

Pew Research says 28% of US adults are now religiously unaffiliated. They are called “Nones.”

Pew says, “Our survey data shows: Most “nones” believe in God or another higher power, but very few go to religious services regularly. Most say religion does some harm, but many also think it does some good. They are not uniformly anti-religious; most “nones” reject the idea that science can explain everything. But they express more positive views of science than religiously affiliated Americans do.”

Pew adds: “Nones” tend to vote less often, do less volunteer work in their communities, and follow public affairs at lower rates than religiously affiliated people do. But the latest data shows that on a variety of measures, lower rates of civic engagement are concentrated among “nones” whose religion is “nothing in particular.”

This phenomenon has been trending for more than a decade. In June 2008, a Pew Research Poll of some 35,000 people indicated that 57 percent of American evangelicals believe many religions can lead to eternal life.

In December 2012, a Pew poll indicated that 20% of all American adults and 32% of adults under 18 had no religious affiliation, yet 68% said they believed in God. Notwithstanding, 88% said they were not looking for a religion.

In September 2017, a Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) poll of over 100,000 Americans indicated that the religions of youth in America are becoming more non-Christian: “Roughly one-third (34%) of religiously unaffiliated Americans are also under 30.”

In an August 2017 Annenberg Public Policy Center poll, 37% of Americans could not name any rights guaranteed by the First Amendment, 85% did not know the First Amendment guaranteed freedom of religion, and 52% didn’t know that freedom of speech was guaranteed.

In 1963, Florida Congressman A. S. Herlong, Jr. submitted for the Congressional Record the “Current Communist Goals” excerpted from “The Naked Communist” by Cleon Skousen. Goal 27: “Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.”

Along with other goals like promoting homosexuality and discrediting the family structure, Apostle Paul’s words are becoming reality each day here in our homeland.

Sources:

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2024/01/24/religious-nones-in-america-who-they-are-and-what-they-believe/

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The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have teamed up to bring you, at least virtually, the next lockdown, vaccine-mandating, fear-mongering pandemic. They call it Disease X.

On January 17, the WEF gave center stage at its Davos, Switzerland, meeting to WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in an effort to convince the champions of globalism to buy into the WHO global pandemic treaty. The treaty would give WHO control over how disease outbreaks are handled with COVID as the model. On January 19, WHO posted a white paper research response to pathogen X during a pandemic. These people are preparing for a disease that doesn’t exist.

The WHO white paper said WHO has implemented a comprehensive global research strategy and preparedness plan known as the WHO R&D Blueprint for Epidemics,

“which ensures research efforts are concentrated on diseases with epidemic or pandemic potential where medical counter-measures and limited or non-existent…. Around 200+ scientists from 53 countries are independently evaluating the evidence related to 30 viral families, one core group of bacteria, and “Pathogen X” – an unknown pathogen with the potential to trigger a severe global epidemic. This new approach will also help identify representative viruses (or prototypes) within a viral family as a pathfinder in generating evidence and filling knowledge gaps that may then apply to other viruses of threat in the same family.”

Founder of Truth for Health Foundation, Dr. Lee Vliet, interprets the WHO/WEF as:

“predictable fear-mongering broadcasting the WHO/WEF/UN cabal’s continued assault on the health, freedom, and very lives of people around the world. Although WEF and WHO clearly say this new disease is “hypothetical and unknown” that supposedly can cause TWENTY TIMES more deaths than coronavirus, they are inexplicably preparing “Counter-measures” and “vaccines” for this very hypothetical, unknown disease. How can anyone create treatments of any kind for an unknown disease? How can anyone predict “20 times more deaths” for an unknown disease? Clearly, in their diabolical arrogance, they think the public is so stupid that we cannot see through this charade and deception.”

Dr. Vliet concludes:

“Anyone with common sense can understand this is a repeat of the “COVID Pandemic” playbook designed to use fear and terror as tactics for submission to the global predators’ tightening vise of tyranny.”

Vliet’s assessment is common sense. These very wise and educated people cannot predict the next pandemic unless they are creating it. In the meantime, they can get nations to agree to a certain framework that, like COVID-19, takes away your freedom and, like the COVID-19 serum, causes great harm and even death to those who take it.

Ephesians 4:14 exhorts, “That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.”

Deception is their game. Fear is their science.

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Sources:

Epoch Times: What is the Disease That the WHO is Preparing For?

WHO News: WHO to identify pathogens that could cause future outbreaks and pandemics

WHO News: Research Response to Pathogen X During a Pandemic

Breitbart: WEF Hosts Panel Tomorrow for ‘Disease X’

Truth for Health: DISEASE X: Weapon of FEAR for Geopolitical Control of Humanity