MATTHEW 24

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

In the last days God tells of a time when the people will leave their values and morals and follow the evil desires of their hearts and the lusts of the flesh. They chose not to obey God’s word, His commandments, their hearts have turned cold. As you think about these last days, we shouldn’t be looking at the world, the unbelievers, but God’s church. We can see in the Book of Revelation, chapters 3 and 4, Jesus is warning of the sins in the churches, not the world and warning them to repent of their sins. They have lost their fervent love for Him, they tolerates immorality, heresies, indifferent, and they tolerates cults (false religions) coming into His church.

We need to look at what is happening in the churches, the body of Christ, which we are all members, joined together through the blood of Jesus Christ. We need to know if we have joined ourselves to God’s church or a false church. For many churches are now welcoming the world and sin into the body of Christ, His church.

¹² For as the body is one and has many members,

but all the members of that one body, being many,

are one body, so also is Christ.

1 CORINTHIANS 12:12

And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning,

the firstborn from the dead, that in all things

He may have the preeminence.

COLOSSIANS 1:18

[ Sacrificial Service for Christ ] I now rejoice in my sufferings for you,

and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ,

for the sake of His body, which is the church,

COLOSSIANS 1:24

¹⁴ Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.

For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness?

And what communion has light with darkness?

2 CORINTHIANS 6:14

We can see how this concerns God, which you have welcomed liars, fornicator, and homosexuals to serve as pastors, ministers and priests in His churches. These are the signs of the end times and God’s coming wrath and judgments, when the world became so corrupt and sexually immoral. Remember God destroyed everyone except Noah and his family, again when the people became sexually immoral; God saved Lot and his family before destroying Sodom and Gomorrah. God made them an example for our benefit on how He will deal with the ungodly. This time will it be three strikes and you’re out.

¹⁷ For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God;

and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those

who do not obey the gospel of God?

1 PETER 4:17

⁵ and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people,

a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the

ungodly; ⁶ and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes,

condemned them to destruction, making them an example

to those who afterward would live ungodly;

2 PETER 2:5-6

²⁰ Nevertheless I have a few things against you,

because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess,

to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality

and eat things sacrificed to idols. ²¹ And I gave her time to repent

of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. ²² Indeed I will cast her

into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation,

unless they repent of their deeds.

REVELATION 2:20-22

These false teachers will lead many straight into hell, for they denied God’s children His full truth. They do not believe in the virgin birth or that the risen Jesus is the only way to heaven. Some have even brought the Quran into God’s church denying Him as the One true God. They care more about pleasing themselves and the people rather than God.

¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,

transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. 

¹⁴ And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms

himself into an angel of light.

2 CORINTHIANS 11:13-14

¹⁴ And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty

and your faith is also empty.

1 CORINTHIANS 15:14

³ If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, 

even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords

with godliness, ⁴ he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes

and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil 

suspicions, ⁵ useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of 

the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.

From such withdraw yourself.

1 TIMOTHY 6:3-5

Like the pied piper, they use music to lure people into following after them, 

which these false teachers know that it is pleasing to their flesh. Then these 

silver tongue pastors put forth their deceptions with good stories, even adding 

scripture to make it appear to support their stories. They will say and do what

ever it takes to get you to come to their church, not God’s, but theirs.

⁸ ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
And honor Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
⁹ And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”

MATTHEW 15:8-9

¹⁶ as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things,

in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable

people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.

2 PETER 3:16

⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these

things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 

⁷ Therefore do not be partakers with them.

EPHESIANS 5:6-7

¹³ But evil men and impostors will grow worse

and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

2 TIMOTHY 3:13

Just as the serpent deceived Eve and she brought Adam into his deception, these false teachers first lure you in with their music and stories, and if they can get you to take a bite of their false fruit, then they will require you to bring others in, stating that it is your purpose in life to help them grow and achieve their goals, all to their glory, not God’s.

⁶ So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food,

that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make 

one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to

her husband with her, and he ate.

GENESIS 3:6

¹³ And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

GENESIS 3:13

³ But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness,

so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

2 CORINTHIANS 11:3

The church is not there to preach only God’s love and the joy he gives. This only pleases the flesh. What they leave out is that you are going into God’s sanctuary, where we should also have reverence and fear of God who is able to destroy both body and soul. These false churches show no reverence or fear.   

⁷ God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints,
And to be held in reverence by all those around Him.

PSALM 89:7

²⁸ And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.

But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

MATTHEW 10:28

We know the love of the Father comes with reverence and fear when we disobey, knowing punishment will come. Only with the Holy Spirit living in you, can you understand this love and fear of a loving Father. For when we do slip up we immediately pray for forgiveness. For when we fall on our knees and humble ourselves and repent, God will forgive and lift us up.

¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

JAMES 4:10

⁹ 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

I’ve talked to people who attend these false churches. One told me they keep attending because the pastor is a good teacher for the children, but my question is what is he teaching? Is he teaching them by his example? That sexual immorality is not only welcomed in their church, but the sexually immoral can lead and teach in their churches, following after the principles of this world and not according to the traditions that God told us to hold on to.

⁶ “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin,

it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck,

and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

MATTHEW 18:6

⁸ Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit,

according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world,

 and not according to Christ.

COLOSSIANS 2:8

Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you

were taught, whether by word or our epistle.

2 THESSALONIANS 2:15

Do you really want false teachers training up your children in the way they 

should go? Or should I say: the way these false teachers want them to go.

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.

PROVERBS 22:6

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.

TITUS 1:16

We have forgotten to tell the people why they come to church. It is not for the music or stories. It is by God’s calling and His Holy Spirit drawing us to come closer to Him.  It is not a time to be entertained, but a time to worship God and learn His true word. No man can tell us our purpose or calling. Their questionnaire they have you answer to find your talents, only shows how they can use you to fulfill their purpose, not God’s. Your calling and gifts come only through God’s Holy Spirit, and only with God’s Spirit living in you will you be able to discern the true church of God, from these false ones.

⁴⁴ No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him;

and I will raise him up at the last day.

JOHN 6:44

God is faithful, by whom you were called into the

fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 CORINTHIANS 1:9

⁹ And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more

in knowledge and all discernment, ¹⁰ that you may approve the

things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and

without offense till the day of Christ,

PHILIPPIANS 1:9-10

⁹ who has saved us and called us with a holy calling,

not according to our works, but according to His own purpose

and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

2 TIMOTHY 1:9