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T. </span>Spence</p><br /> </div><br /> <div class="body-text"><br /> <p></p><br /> <p>In Genesis 1:11-12, there is a divinely-ordained law declaring<br /> that everything which possessed life should bring forth after its<br /> kind: <i>Like</i> is to bring forth <i>like</i>. Within that law,<br /> the power of reproduction is ordained in the seed, a "seeding<br /> yielding seed." This principle was not altered at the fall of man | Straightway Online given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations" (Revelation 13:7). Nevertheless, this period of persecution will also be for a witness in the earth. God through His Son will consummate the end of this enmity: the Seed and the Seed's seed will be victorious! Isaiah 54:10 declares, "He shall see his seed," and in Psalm 22:30 we read, "A seed shall serve him: it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation."</p> <h3>Conclusion</h3> <p>The End Time gives clear evidence that Satan is aggressively working on the destruction of the remnant seed through two attacks: (1) the literal killing of the true Christians around the world and (2) the polluting and mongrelizing of the godly seed. We are witnessing the first attack in China, the Arab countries, the communist world, and parts of South America as hatred of Christianity ever increases.</p> <p>The second attack is the most subtle and fearful, for it tries to destroy the "power" of the seed, the Gospel of Christ within the heart. This approach is seen through efforts to pollute the true Gospel with a false one. The accommodation of the flesh and gradual acceptance of the world's business and philosophical standards is greatly affecting the Gospel message of the church. Such fleshly pollution is drawn into the Christian seed through means such as Contemporary Christian Music. This mongrelization of the seed is evident through subtle changes of the message of the Bible creating a broader base for the invitation of the world. We see this in the growing acceptance of Mel Gibson's <i>The Passion</i>, Dan Brown's <i>The DaVinci Code</i>, the recent so-called finding of the <i>Gospel of Judas</i>¸ the recent emphasis of the Gnostic writings, the rising influence of the theology of Romanism, and the "Neo" movements found in Christianity today. These influences are affecting the conservative spectrum of Christianity.</p> <p>Even Fundamentalism is slowly but surely blending into the fabric of Neo-Evangelicalism. As a last bastion to withstand the end-time global apostasy, Fundamentalism is now well on its way to reuniting with the movement that left its ranks for a more hopeful position of dialoging and fellowshipping the Liberals, Moderates, and Neo-Evangelicals. We are now witnessing Fundamentalism laying hold of and delighting in the same non-separatist positions that the Neo-Evangelicals embraced in the 1940s. The very carnal rhetoric Neo-Evangelicals used at their inception to explain their positions (which Fundamentalists then condemned) has now become the very rhetoric of present Fundamentalism. What Neo-Evangelicals craftily sought to exclude in their preaching has become the same failure in mainstream Fundamentalism. Similarly, our periodicals also are being written for greater acceptance by a broader base of readers. The increasing shift toward Reformed Theology has become a popular means of leaving the church's problems to sovereignty rather than of taking a stand against the encroachment of the apostasy within our ranks.</p> <p>When the Charismatics introduced "Praise and Worship" music in the 1970s, Fundamentalist music leaders believed we needed to pursue a similar style of music because it was the "in thing" in worship. Now even traditional congregational hymn singing has followed the path of our weaker, more contemporary special music.</p> <p>Satan is also trying to mongrelize the seed by the broader spectrum of the English versions of the Bible. The battle now is over "what is the text?" If we are saved by an incorruptible seed (I Peter 1:23), what is the seed of the Word of God?</p> <p>Similarly, any dress standard of dignity is being subtly intimidated; the pressure now is placed on the pursuit and acceptance of the casual look already embraced by the Neo crowd. One needs only to consider the casual, non-offensive dress of various musicians appearing on Fundamentalist recordings. Are they clean-cut secular artists or Christian artists?—does the world know?</p> <p>So much of Fundamentalism has entered into gray areas. It will only be a matter of time before we will witness and hear the open contemporary sounds of Neo-Christianity. Although the child of God is to be of the light and delivered from the darkness, most churches today choose to live in the gray, twilight zone where the light and darkness meet.</p> <p>In spite of the reasoning of leaders that there is still some gospel in all of this, we must clearly realize that <i>there is no power in a corrupt Gospel</i>. This is why the churches have become impotent against worldliness and the flesh. This is why the sodomites are becoming publicly bold in their views, and violence is filling the earth. There are very few of the true seed of Christ, and very few have the incorruptible seed of the Word of God within. May the Lord help us to make it to the end of our days as a part of the true seed of Christ and with the true Gospel seed in our hearts.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>