Title: Are Discernment Ministries a Good Thing? Source:
Converations With A Calvinist URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJa3tD6RHLA Published:Sep 15, 2023 Author:Pastor Keith Foskey Post Date:2023-09-15 02:22:30 by Charles_Byrd Keywords:None Views:301 Comments:2
In this podcast, Keith discusses the value of discernment ministries and the potential issues that they can sometimes cause. This is a profitable conversation about the heart behind defending truth and exposing error.
O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
The world is in the midst of the Great Tribulation and these men are solely concerned with the errors of other Christians (normally a worthy endeavor).
They are not even curious as to revealing of the anti-Christ!
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
We see the son of perdition! ...therefore there had to have been the great apostasy. Why didn't we notice it? Because no one looked deeply enough, no one except a wonderful Greek teacher, Spiros Zodhiates. He made a comment on this verse back in 1989 that lodged in my brain all these years. "Falling away" (apostasia) is better understood "to place one's self apart from or to stand away from" (temporarily) rather than "to remove one's self entirely" (permanently).
A perfect diagnosis for a saved people who are nonetheless (temporarily) standing apart from God.
When we see the churches so absolutely disinterested in the evil that has conquered the world, and a man telling the world he is "the chosen one", "the king of Israel", and "the second coming of God" being fully endorsed by the churches!...Houston, we have a problem...a great "standing apart" for God and truth.
