“Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me” (Ezekiel 3: 17).
“If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou has attained.” (1 Timothy 4:6).
We are living in days in which the faith is being assaulted and the attacks against it are much more subtle than in any other period of time in history.
The agnostic thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries did not pretend to defend “the faith of their fathers,” they openly opposed the Christian faith.
The agnostics, Descartes and Kant, presented themselves as they were. The pantheistic Spinoza never claimed that Christianity was his faith.
But today the scene is completely changed. Inside the churches, the so-called theologians, as their great leaders, are manipulating ecclesiastical politics and are imposing their ideas on them, making this twentieth century Protestantism a scandalous ecclesiasticism, a cover made of pieces of different philosophies and religions of the world, a thing that made an atheistic Swedish professor of philosophy to ask with rudeness, “Are these theologians atheists disguised as bishops and clergymen?”
It is a real scandal for the so-called Christian theologians to speak in such a way that an atheist could ask, “Excuse me, are you really atheistic?”
That is the picture of the church over all the world.
Today atheistic and agnostic theologians, by using the Christian tradition of the church, are able to present themselves around the world as great Christians.
By the grace of God, He placed all over the world little groups of watchmen who are giving warnings from God, and who are exposing themselves to the devilish hate and to the fiery darts of the wicked.
The old devil is using all his means to intercept their action. As it always happens, the fight starts with persecution, with threats, growing into excommunications of all those who take a clear stand and warn the people about the perils to which they are exposed. Actually, these methods work for good by helping to establish with more firmness the watchmen of God in more towers than were in existence before. So the devil changes his aspect into the shape of an angel of light, and he presents saintly Christian doctrines, such as prayer and sanctification, trying to enslave distracted Christians in order to reach his goal of overcoming the Christian testimony.
As Sanballat, he uses the dangerous weapon of ridicule by calling attention to the fact that we are a little group, and that we are building on sand our wall of defense of the faith, and that our wall will fall down under the first impact of a fox. Unnumbered foxes have precipitated themselves over our fortress only to discover that our wall is built upon a Rock.
Some evangelistic campaigns are used as a means of hostility to those who preach ” … the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 1:3). Many revivals are used to try to mix our people with the enemy, intending to deceive the simple members of our churches who love the lost and pray for them.
However, the mass evangelism of our day gathers together Christians with idolatrous Mary worshippers and rationalists who deny the divinity of the Lord. Then when someone makes a decision, they want us to send the decision card of this newly converted one to churches that deny the faith we preach.