The apostasy is characterized by people who will not endure sound doctrine but will have itching ears and heap to themselves teachers that will fulfill their own lusts. We are living in the last days where many in the mainstream and denominational churches are following doctrines of men rather than the Bible. Sadly, the apostate church is a reality even in Evangelical and Pentecostal churches today.
Jesus Christ calls the apostate church the church of the Laodiceans. In Revelation 3:14-19, He tells the apostle John,
“And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would that you were cold or hot. So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spit you out of my mouth. Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness does not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.”
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