The mighty Ian Paisley (1926 - 2014) preaches true Christianity, from 2 Kings 2:14 (KJV), the Christianity that has holiness and soul-transforming power. "Where is the Lord God of Elijah!" is the cry of a persecuted and marginalized remnant of faithful believers amid a society full of deceived lost souls who sit in pews like dead bones and satanic sock puppets. Paisley is decrying the Great Apostasy which he saw beginning then (March of 1970), and today most nominal Christians don't even realize that they are not Christians at all. Where are the Christians today with the power and holiness to call fire down from heaven? Who knows the Lord as he was known by Elijah, and as Elijah was known of him? Why not you? Do you have the heart and the guts to stand against the Enemy and forsake all to be one of the King's men, now, at the climax of human history, one who obeyed the command to "Make straight the paths of the Lord" in preparation for his coming? Will he greet you with a "Well done, good and faithful servant," or will you be destroyed for being a half-hearted hypocrite, a coward who fled from the battlefield and made a compromise deal with God's enemies, because you loved your life in this world too much to resist its temporal comforts?
Are you a Joshua, or an Achan? www.biblegateway.com/passage/....
Are you son or daughter of God who will partake of his glory in eternity, or are you Lot's wife? www.biblegateway.com/passage/....
You can be one of the Lord's end-times Elijahs, if you've got the guts. What an opportunity you're missing if you chicken out, what a Pharisee you are, what a fool you are if you aren't serving the Lord with all your heart and mind and soul today. He will reject you like he did the Jews who committed the same error at his first coming. "Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? For when they shall rise from the dead, they are as the angels which are in heaven. And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err." (Mark 12:24-25, 25-27). "If thou hadst known! Even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! But now they are hid from thine eyes: for the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation... And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves!" (Luke 19:42-46). "Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God." (Matt 22:29).
And note that, prophetically, the Great Apostasy is the "Falling Away" of 2 Thessalonians 2, for those of you who wrongly think that phrase refers to a future prophetic event and the "Pre-Trib" rapture. The Falling Away is the collapse of the true church and its conquest by the spirit of Antichrist in the last days, which are now. Semantically, "falling away" is the perfect opposite of "gathering together," and you must be blinded by the god of this world to miss that obvious contrast. www.biblegateway.com/passage/.... There will be no Rapture to spare the church from the beginning stages of the Great Tribulation, because "The just shall live by faith." You will endure the fiery trials that are coming upon the world, even now, and it will refine you like ore of gold and silver. The Bible emphatically does not teach that "the just shall live if I Rapture them out of the world," but only that we have been saved from God's wrath, meaning that "A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked." (Psalm 91:7-8).
King James himself has told us that the Falling Away is a "Defection," thus ending all debate on what that phrase means and has meant to Christians in the past. See page 308-310 of "The Workes of the Most High and Mightie Prince, James, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c:" by King James I, An Unabridged Facsimile of the 1616 Edition Including the Two Workes Appended In 1620; at books.google.com/books?id=CCa...