If you genuinely cared about someone would you warn them if they were about to go off a cliff. Of course you would, that is IF you cared. Unfortunately today we see most people, including so-called Christians, that do NOT care. With the likes of Joel Osteen and Billy Graham, to Rick Warren, it is clear that most folks do not have any comprehension, much less awareness, of the impending doom and evil that is prevelant in this world. We chalk off conspiracy theories as comedy and we joke about the Emergent Church we no real sense of urgency in our hearts of how bad things will get. Perhaps that is left only to the prophets of impending doom.....much like those in the old testament who likely lamented day and night of the wickedness they were well aware of. Unfortunately these prophets were stoned, back stabbed and disregarded as dirty old dish rags.
How fortunate for the government when the masses do not think for themselves. This is what Hitler said when he was ruling the Third Reich. Hitler used his propaganda machine in Joseph Goebbles to further advance his plans and all the while the masses believed it. Only a few, discerning people who knew better were aware of the evil. They were not stupid or ignorant. We see how far Hitler advanced before anything was done. What a shame it is when we see people capitulating to the evil around them by joining the crowds and refusing to take a stand.
We see this in the ecumenical movement in the church. With Evangelicals joining hands with Catholics, Mormons and Jehova Witnesses. Yet if anyone stands up against it, they are labeled divisive, when in reality, it is they, the disobedient ones, who are divisive. They are clearly causing the brethern to divide over those who will be obedient to God and those who will not. It is more expedient to be political. It is more expedient to be lucrative, according to their actions.
In the early churches, Christians were persecuted, hunted down and murdered BECAUSE of their faith. They would not compromise for anything. Their allegiance was to Christ and His Word, not this world. You can not love God and this world at the same time. Either you love one or the other. But you can not love both.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and lust of the eyes, and the PRIDE of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.............I John 1:15-17