The Boiling Pot - Moriel Ministries

Feature Article – Continued
Jesus Christ went to the cross to magnify
His ego! That church belongs dead! Who
cares? It is not coming back.
They always talk about these things coming
back, but they rot to death. Notice they
do not disappear all at once; they die a long,
slow, painful death, experiencing a steady
period of decline. They just rot and rot and
rot and rot. The iron corrodes, corrodes,
corrodes; the rust oxidizes, oxidizes, oxidizes.
It just rots away. I am not saying that
all of these movements are going to disappear
overnight; they are going to rot. And
the rot has already set in for many of them.
This is only the beginning. This is what we
are going to see in the next ten years. Do
not even mourn. But then what? What does
this mean for us?
A Time for the Word
‘As for you, son of man, will it not be
on the day when I take from them their
stronghold, the joy of their pride, the
desire of their eyes and their heart’s
delight, their sons and their daughters…
(They are going to lose the youth.)
…that on that day he who escapes will
come to you with information for your
ears? ‘On that day your mouth will
be opened to him who escaped, and
you will speak and be mute no longer.
Thus you will be a sign to them, and
they will know that I am the LORD.’ ”
(Eze. 24:25-27)
To understand this, we have to go back
Ezekiel 3 where the Lord told Ezekiel, “I
will make your tongue cling to the roof of
your mouth. You will not be able to warn
them anymore until I open your mouth”
(Eze. 3:26-27). Until now we have not
been able to warn them—it does not work.
God has given them over to it and these
movements will not listen. The Lord makes
our tongue cling to the roof of our mouth,
it says in Ezekiel 3, but a time is going to
come when He is going to put His Word in
our mouth and our tongue will no longer
cling to the roof of our mouth. A message is
going to be given and then they are going to
know a prophet has spoken (Eze. 33:33).
The Near-Term Future for Us
That is the future for them, but what is
the future for us? What should we be looking
at in the next decade or so if the Lord
does not come back? “I will take from the
desire of their eyes and their heart’s delight;
he who escapes will come to you with information
for your ears.” There are going
to be people walking through our door in
Australia, South Africa, around the United
States, in Great Britain—all over the
place—who have had enough of the mainstream
churches and denominations.
I go all over the world and I see the same
thing everywhere: more and more people
are meeting together in homes and in
small groups, or meeting in American Legion
halls or schools—they have just had
enough. If they cannot find a decent church,
they will go meet in a home. They will find
fellowship with others who still believe the
Scriptures. They will meet in a home if they
have to. Sometimes the home groups grow
and they have to go find a hall or something
like that, but one thing is for sure—they are
a semi-underground church and not part of
the mainstream, and they tend to be populated
with refugees. “Those who escape
will come to you with information.”
There will be those who will walk
through the door and say, “I used to go to
the Assemblies of God; do you know what
has happened over there? Do you know
what they are teaching now?” Yes, we
know. They are always going to come with
information. At some point the epiphany
comes and they realize what has been going
on and finally get the point. It is about
those who escape. What do we do? We are
here for those who escape. They are going
to come through our door.
There is a problem with this, a problem
that I have been going on about for at least
fifteen years: such groups can tend to become
like refugee camps for people who
leave bad churches. I think it is altogether
fitting and scriptural to fulfill that function.
It is necessary to be here for those people
the same way as there was somebody here
for us. The danger is we become introspective;
it becomes based on what we experienced
in some bad church. It becomes like
Alcoholics Anonymous who are always
talking about their past, bad experience instead
of looking to the future. Yes, that is
one-half of the equation in that we have to
re-evangelize the church and get people out
of these loony churches—that is true, but
not at the expense of evangelism. It cannot
be based solely on “they’re wrong,” it has
to be based on, “they got it wrong, we have
to get it right.” We should be growing by
evangelism as well as picking up refugees.
That is the problem such groups are facing:
they tend to become self-help centers for
people who were burned in bad churches.
But pick up refugees we will. Those who
escape are going to come through our door
confused, looking for answers. “You mean
I’ve been believing error for ten years?”
“I’ve been believing and following false
doctrine for twenty years?” “I got saved
twenty years ago and 90% of all this junk is
false?” They do not know what to believe.
They have been misled, they have been lied
to, very often exploited financially, and they
are confused and hurt, but they managed,
by God’s grace, to escape. They walked
through that door looking for somebody to
talk to, looking for somebody who will just
listen, looking for somebody who can understand
what they are saying and who can
be used by the Lord to give them a perspective
and a sense of direction.
Conclusion
Those guys in these backslidden movements
and denominations are waiting for
the king of Babylon. That is their future.
They are waiting for the coming of the Antichrist.
They may not know it, they may
not believe it, but that is what they are waiting
for. They are being set up for it. By following
these false prophets, they are being
set up for the Antichrist. They are waiting
for Antichrist; we are waiting for Christ.
They are about the past; we, the remnant
though we are, are about the future. They are
about error—false doctrine; we are about
the truth. They are about a compromised
gospel; we are about a straight Gospel.
They are about a compromised standard of
morality; we are about an uncompromised
scriptural standard of morality.
Remember, we are far better off—infinitely
better off, being part of something
that is growing slowly than being a part of
something that is dying quickly. Once she
dies, who cares?
Who among us has lost a night’s sleep
over what has happened to the Crystal Cathedral?
Who among us lost a night’s sleep
when Jim and Tammy went down the tubes?
Of course not; it is not worth crying over!
That is the past, we have to think about the
future. Ezekiel 24 is the future—what the
next ten or so years are going to be like.
God bless,
James Jacob Prasch †††
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10 Moriel Quarterly • June 2012