“Knowing this first . . . that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking (living) after their own lusts (carnal desires), and saying . . . Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7hDo_PWUac&feature=plcp] “The warnings of the Word of God regarding the perils surrounding the Christian church belong to us today. As in the days of the apostles men tried by tradition and philosophy to destroy faith in the Scriptures, so today, by the pleasing sentiments of higher criticism, evolution, spiritualism, theosophy, and pantheism, the enemy of …
“In that day . . . will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean, yea, from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you . . .
Then the heathen (unbelieving) that are left round about you shall know . . . that I the LORD build the ruined places, and I the LORD plant that which was desolate . . . For I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it !”
– Ezekiel 36:25-56*