V Rapture Christ Newsletter
June 1, 2017

Christianity is fading away. Here are some of the reasons:

1. Ministers preach the wrong message.
Most claim that your reward (going to heaven) is given to you after you die.  But, this is not so. Christ says that his reward comes with him.

Revelation 22:12
Look, I am coming soon, bringing my reward with me to repay all people according to their deeds.

Thinking that life in "heaven" will be a boring thing, most young people are NOT interested in anything related to Christianity. Young men, especially, want to live "exciting" lives full of sin. Besides, it takes too long for the reward (going to heaven), and young people think that by the time they are old and ready to die, they would join a church and get their "reward." Basically, it is eat, drink, and be merry now.

1 Corinthians 15:32
... If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Notice in that bible verse that the reward is "being raised from the dead," not "going to heaven," as most Christians have been led wrongly to believe.  Basically, the only people going to church are elderly women.

2. Parents don't teach Christianity to their children.
Most households have both the father and mother working full time, and they use babysitters as well as day care. Sadly, they have little time to teach their children moral values. Therefore, children are taught in public schools, and the message they get is that the bible is a fable and that we evolved from apes.

Years ago, parents used to take an active role in the education of their children. Boys spent a lot more time with their fathers, and divorce was rare. Fast forward to now. In the inner city, over 80% of births are out of wedlock, and children often do not know who their father is. No fathers leads to an increase in crime.

3. Preachers say that God loves the sinner.
Probably one of worst lies is this one. Instead of teaching moral values, preachers tell us that God loves sinners, that Christ will forgive us and that we need not worry. 

God does not love sinners. This is a lie. God hates the wicked. 

John 9:31
We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will.

The bible also says.

Proverbs 15:29
Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Certainly, this is the opposite of loving the sinner. In fact, God hates both the sinner as well as the sin.

Atheists often claim that God does not hear their prayers, and that is proof that He does not exist. 

God does exist, but He only hears the prayers of the righteous. He does not listen to sinners.

Isaiah 59:1
Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. It's your sins that have cut you off from God. Because of your sins, he has turned away and will not listen anymore.

God commands us to be saintly.

Leviticus 11:45
I am the Lord, who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy.

4. Public school forbids Christianity.
Due to a decline in wages, most parents cannot afford to send their children to a Christian school, as those are very expensive. Parents are too busy with their jobs and have no time to teach moral values to their little ones. Public school has become the de facto care giver and the instrument to "socialize" the new generation. All the politically correct values are taught in the public schools and colleges. However, public schools ban the bible, prayer, and any mention of YHVH or Jesus. Interestingly they do not ban the Koran or Muslim prayer.

As a result, we find that a lot of young people are not going to church anymore. They are told that God is evil because He does not accept gays. Therefore, the new generation is a lot less religious than their parents were.

Basically, church goers are aging. They are gradually dying off and not being replaced by the young. People who hold religious views are seen as ignoramuses. Religion is seen as ancient fables that have been replaced by hard science. In fact, going to a church is seen as bland and outdated now.

The journal PlosOne, shows a giant decrease in religious commitment. Kids just don't go to church anymore.  Twice as many high school students, and three times as many college goers, described their religious affiliation as “none” in the 2010 versus 1980. 

According to America’s Research Group, 95 percent of 20 to 29 year old evangelicals attended church regularly during their elementary and middle school years. However, only 55 percent of them attended church regularly during high school, and only 11 percent of them were still regularly attending church when in college.

Notice how dramatic the decline is. Christ asks in the Holy Bible if he will find faith when he comes.

Luke 18:8
...Nevertheless when the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?

There has been a sharp decline in religion in America, but it is far worse in Europe.

Catholic journalist Damian Thompson speculated that "Anglicanism will disappear from Britain in 2033". He cites British Social Attitudes surveys, which suggest that the number of Anglicans here "fell from 40% of the population in 1983 to 29% in 2004 to 17% last year".

5. Children are constantly being bombarded by destructive images.
They see violence in television, in movies, and of course in video games. Kids are constantly pressing the fire button as they exist in the "virtual reality" of a computer program. Most young people have been brainwashed by playing video games. They accept the computer generated nightmare as a fun place to be in. The movies they watch are full of computer generated images - CGI. They also complain that movies with too much talking are boring. What they want is action, as in explosions and war.

Video games train you to become an evil person. In fact, the more cities you destroy, the higher your score. Certainly, parents do not want their children to become monsters, but that is what happens when you enjoy doing evil to others. 

Look at all the video games. For every sim city game that has you build a city, I can show you hundreds of destructive games. This will have a negative effect on our young. When you accept as good to do things that are evil -- even if it is "virtual" -- you will become what you have already accepted in your mind.

Notice that Satan tells us destruction is exciting, and it is fun to sin. By claiming that God does not exist, young people feel that they can continue to live in sin. There are no consequences. Hell is just a story and they do not need to worry.

6. People enjoy sin.
I will not lie to you. This world claims that abominations are normal and tries to glamorize living in sin. The truth is that just like a fat person enjoys eating food, most sinners enjoy engaging in sin.

Do not be deceived, for all of us will be judged by our actions and that is something few ponder on.

Matthew 12:36
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Where you spend eternity should be your major concern. Claiming hell is not real will not make it go away. Instead, we must do what we can to enter into God's kingdom.

Matthew 7:12-14
In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the prophets. Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Researchers assume that religion will fade away, but Lord Sacks offers the opposite view. "The world will be more religious a generation from now, not less," he says. "The more religious people are, the more children they have. The more secular they are, the fewer children they have... the religious will inherit the Earth."

I agree that people will become more religious, but what religion? There is one religion whose members are increasing worldwide.

Muslims increase in number every year. "It is a fact that Islam is growing rapidly in the West. In USA alone, the number of Muslims has risen dramatically, from about 10,000 in 1900 to 3 million or more in 1991," says Arab World Ministries.

Let us explain the reasons why this is so.

1. They have more children
The Koran says that a man can have four wives.  Notice that a woman cannot have four husbands, and this ruling allows the population to increase, because well off men can marry more than one woman. This allows them to have many sons. Western countries are seeing people challenge laws that ban bigamy on grounds of racism.

In contrast, Jesus says only one woman per man. Also, Christ frowns on divorce.

Matthew 19:3-6
Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?” “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Muslim mothers have more children than Christian ones. This should surprise no one. Most of its practitioners are younger. Christians tend to be older and are slowly fading away.

They do not approve of abortion. Having lots of sons is admired by Muslim men.

2. Socializing the young.

Muslim countries have Sharia law based on the Koran, whereas the United States bases its laws on the ten commandments from the bible. 

Muslims are not taught evolution or democracy. The United States, on the contrary, teaches democracy in public schools and a bunch of "scientific" theories as if they were facts -- among them evolution. 

Muslims are taught from the Koran that homosexuality is an abomination, and they penalize severely open homosexuality or prostitution.
The United States, in contrast, forbids the use of the bible in public schools. These places of learning teach "sex education" to very young children whose minds are not yet ready to understand the morality or immorality of such decisions, therefore instilling into these vulnerable young intellects the idea that sex before marriage is OK.

The United States has passed laws legalizing homosexual marriage and public homosexual display. Therefore, most movies have to portray a homosexual in the cast, and many TV shows, such as Modern Family, are about the "normal, modern" families made up of two gays or two lesbian partners.

Recently, on June 1, 2017, Canada passed Bill 89, or the Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act. This new bill could impact traditional Christian families who offer any opposition to or criticism of the LGBT agenda, as they would be considered as potential “child abusers.” Those parents could have their children taken away by the state. 

3. They kill Muslims who leave the Muslim religion.
According to Albert W. Hickman of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, "Muslim converts to Christianity are far more likely to face adverse consequences than are Christian converts to Islam. These can range from the loss of a job and social and familial ostracism to beatings, imprisonment, and even death." This is a strong deterrent for any Muslim trying to leave his religion and become a Christian.

Walid Shoebat details the difficult life of Muslims that become Christians. Often, they must leave their countries and they find that there are serious consequences. In contrast, Christians that become Muslims are not attacked by Christians or forced to move.

4. They kill Christians and Jews.

It makes me sad that humans are always fighting wars. God will bring a full stop to all this nonsense. He will bring peace.

God tells us what to expect from the evil ones.

John 16:1-2
I have told you these things so that you will not fall away. They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. 

Muslims behead Christian children in Iraq and put their severed heads on sticks. Certainly, actions speak louder than words. Look at what is going on around you.

Jesus says that all nations will hate us. This is due to his name. Well, that is what will happen when Muslims rule the whole world.

Matthew 24:9
Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations on account of My name.

Yes, Muslims will become a majority, because their religion is NOT a religion of peace. 

All suicide bombers are Muslim; all terrorists are Muslim; yes, they are on a Jihad trying to establish Islam worldwide. The ones that do not repent of their hate of Christians and Jews will be dealt by Almighty God and destroyed.

I come to destroy those that are destroying the earth, says the Lord.

Revelation 11:18
The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth.

May Jesus kingdom come to this earth soon. 

We include a video to give you an idea of what is coming.