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Perilous Times

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, lead away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was...Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” 2nd Timothy 3:1-9,12-13

Lust, greed and pride
Or anything you like
Just name your sin, fancy or vice
It does not matter anymore
Bring it through the Churches' doors
Just be sure to do it all in the name of Jesus Christ

It's the time of Jubilee
And everyone is foot loose and fancy free
It's a celebration of Jesus and the party is on
It's a Rock-n-Roll Hip-Hop affair
In Churches everywhere
It's an unholy revival turned so very wicked and wrong

There's very little true preaching anymore
for the truth is so deplored
They have rejected God's Word in favor of their fables
Sound Doctrine is not endured
For it's not a fleshly carnal lure
Thus no one can use it to get signed to a Christian Industry Label

Lets face it, It just don't sell
And in their sins it don't set well
For the truth and the lie can never walk hand in hand
The Church and the World are never one
Unless it's this false Gospel of carnal fun
And now this Counterfeit Gospel of hypocrisy fills our land

The Fear of God they undermine
As in their sins they so decline
The Antichrist spirit of lawlessness has marked their ungodly souls
It's the Mystery of Iniquity
And such corruptions they have reaped
For the worldly pleasures which they have practiced and thus have sown

Spiritual fornicators they have become
In their pleasures of worldly fun
We now live within such wicked Perilous days
Exposed half naked and shameless
The ungodly are now viewed as being blameless
As the perverted and reprobate are admired and even praised

Wearing fashions in Church revealing their bodies
It's now OK to be really naughty
The spirit of Whoredom and Adultery is manifesting everywhere
Having a form of godliness denying its power
How did we ever come to this hour
When so many Pastors and their congregations could less but care?

The men now wear ear rings just like women
With such long hair it's so effeminate
Who hath bewitched their minds to think so carnal and vain?
The women are now their Leaders
Appearing so masculine in their fashions and features
Don't they know that such unnatural sodomite expressions are a shame?

The last days are now here
When the Church at large is so very queer
As the pressure to walk in the flesh has become so hard to deny
When temptations are all around
And in the Churches sin so abounds
It now seems that there is no place left to run and hide

Yet no temptation hath taken you or I
By an overpowering force or great surprise
But such as is common to all men
God is faithful to keep us awake
And he will make a way of escape
So that we don't have to live in such like sins

For every man is tempted by his own lust
And drawn away to such disgust
When allured from within and then by his own heart he is enticed
We must not make no excuse
Or our own hearts we shall seduce
It's time for us to rise and stand up by faith unto the fight

For sin has no power to make us bend
Nor dominion over us to sin
Yet we must believe that God's Word faithful and true
For only then shall we be able to stand
When we know that God is for us and says that we can
Thus let stand and fight this battle for Life in victory through

We must Overcome the world at all cost
Lest we fall into the perdition of the lost
Perilous times are here so take your stand
Let us be counted for the Cross
Let us shine brightly against the false
For the Judgment of God has never been so close at hand.
© 1993 Raymond Bolton Pena

“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ,
who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season;
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions,
do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.”
2nd Thessalonians 4:1-5

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