Zephaniah tells us that the god served by the global culture has a form of Godliness

Zephaniah 1:5-6

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“Those who worship the host of heaven on the housetops; Those who worship and swear oaths by the Lord, but who also swear by Milcom; Those who have turned back from following the Lord, and have not sought the Lord, nor inquired of Him.” Zephaniah 1:5-6

To serve the Lord on the housetops makes people visible to everyone around them and they want to be seen by others as being Godly. They wear the fig leaf of churchy and humanitarian sounding words as they swear their allegiance to a false god. In fact, in all of their “showboating” they have turned away from God, they do not seek Him through Jesus Christ, and they do not inquire of Him when navigating through this world,

The verse above refers to those who have a form of Godliness but deny God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. On the Day of the Lord, they will be wiped from the face of the earth. They try to come across as being righteous and Holy but do not believe in God the Creator, they do not believe in coming to Jesus Christ for the remission of sin, and do not believe in the Holy Spirit as a divine person. That includes the churches of today who have thrown out the Gospel of Christ to become a part of the community family. Instead of coming apart from the ways of the world to live for God through Jesus, they have molded with the world to join the global culture of the beast. “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.” Revelation 18:4-5

Those of this world are wearing the fig leaf of humanism for clothing as they serve the thing giving them what to think, feel, do, believe and say. They use churchy and humanitarian sounding words because they want to come across as being Godly, righteous, and doing the right thing, but nothing they say or do can be taken at face value. For example, they call the killing of the unborn “Reproductive Rights” they promote the LGBQT+ community through the “Respect for Marriage Act” etc. They allow the image of the beast to live and speak through them as they welcome the thing giving them what to believe, think, and feel. They are conformed to the anti-Christian global culture as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

2 Timothy 3:2-5

I believe in the blood of Jesus
That washes white as snow
I believe that the power of the Gospel
Still makes the broken whole
I believe that the curse of sin was broken
When they rolled away that stone
I believe, I believe, I believe
(Church Song)

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1