Take a look around you. It is clear the Lord is coming back at any moment:
In the same way, when you see all these things, you can know His return is very near, right at the door. (Matthew 24:33 NLT)
Now is the time to wake up and examine yourself:
Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. (Romans 13:11a ESV)
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test! (2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV)
Because if you don’t truly wake up and examine yourself, the consequences are eternal:
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, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ (Matthew 7:21-23 ESV)
Jesus Christ is coming back with a sword, unlike the first time He came:
Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which He is called is The Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh He has a name written, King of kings and Lord of Lords. (Revelation 19:11-16 ESV)
And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:15 ESV)
The Lord tests the righteous, but His soul hates the wicked. (Psalm 11:5a ESV)
Please do not be deceived by the false teachers, preachers, and prophets that have infiltrated Christianity and mesmerized the masses. The New Testament is literally filled with warnings from one end to the other about false teachers entering the Church, especially in the End Times:
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV)
I put together the links to a half dozen very short videos that speak volumes on the subject:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ftYlZl9M3Pw?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/rHOgxUFk4D4?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/q5UuqITkwys?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/KQ97QMuyZCc?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/WoajlDhRxSo?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/Se0EajzyTEg?feature=share
The following is a 30 minute summary of 17 of the biggest false teachers of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. The clips of these false teachers is not just some tiny, out of context display of what they are about. It is literally the very heart of what they stand for:
You may be offended by what is in the videos above. This may be because you may have benefited from something that was said or written by those who are the subject of those videos. Let me point out that everyone is also benefited by doctors, therapists, financial advisors, and other professionals in our society. But this article is not about that. This is about a distortion and perversion of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ!