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Home Jan | Feb | Mar | April | May | June | July Powerpoint - February 2008What is the most rapidly growing movement within traditional Christendom? Probably the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Scoffers. It is cross-denominational' and less likely to be found in newly evangelised lands, where there is a hunger to hear more about the Lord's return. One of its hallmarks is a desire to maintain the status quo, reminding us how leaders two thousand years ago had no time for any Messiah who did not respect their influence and traditions. Now it is perhaps more a case of: ''We're much too busy running the church to bother about when or whether Jesus is coming back". Peter predicted such a thing in his second epistle, so we need not be surprised. This does not mean that we need not challenge it. Elijah became a victim of such defeatism. "I have been very zealous for the Lord God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life" (1 Kings 19: 10). You remember God's response? "Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal" Scoffers may abound. But Peter did not say that all would scoff. At grass roots level there are tens of thousands who instinctively know, because they honour God's word in preference to what they hear from those compromised pulpits occupied by spiritual ostriches. Unbelievers are also open to prophetic truth in an unprecedented way, as they view a planet on the brink of ecological and moral disaster. Let us rally and not let our mantle fall upon some Elisha who has more faith than we have. "Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown" (Rev 3: 11 ).
Major Donald Cameron
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