The Church in Eclipse

At the onset of the new millennium the world seems to be sliding closer and closer to the abyss of some primeval darkness. Meanwhile, the one abiding hope that the world has for light and direction would seem to be in a delirium, and we are referring to the churches of God. Amidst the most unprecedented upheavals of history, at a time when the world is so desperately in need of a lamp unto its pathway, the one agency that was commissioned by Christ to serve as that lamp is hiding under a bushel, waiting to be whisked away from it all.
Instead of shedding beams of light athwart the darkness of the human condition, Churchianity is preoccupied with a morbid interest in the end of the world. The salt of the earth and the light of the world have all but resigned themselves to fatalism and are now sitting around waiting for “the Antichrist” to show up, so that they can be “raptured” into the wild blue yonder.
Ancient cultures used to view eclipses as bad omens, imagining that angry gods had removed the sun from the sky. Today we know the phenomenon to be nothing more than a temporary occlusion of light. During an eclipse of the sun the light of day may give way to the darkness of night, but that doesn’t mean that the sun has stopped shining, does it? No, it just means that its light is being blocked by something.
The magnitude of the moral darkness engulfing the world today is telling us a similar story. Does it mean that the light of God’s truth has been extinguished? No, it just means that something is blocking it at its earthly source—within the institution of the Christian Church. But what that could that be? That is the question we will try to answer in this book.
In doing so we will divide our quest into three sections. In the first section, “God and the Creation,” we will attempt to disclose muddled views relating to the nature of the world, the earth, “time,” natural science, Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, so on and forth, unbiblical views that may be contributing to the general eclipse of the Church.
In the second section, “God and History,” we will attempt to disclose muddled view relating to the strategic plan of God concerning His promise to Abraham, the election of the twelve tribes of Israel, the division of Israel into two witnesses, the Assyrian captivity and Diaspora of Israel, the Babylonian captivities of Judah, the post-captivity return of the Judah remnant to Jerusalem, the first Advent of Jesus Christ, the subsequent democratization of the Kingdom of God, the “falling away” into the Dark Ages, the Reformation, and the subsequent emergence of the United States of America, unbiblical views that may be also contributing to the general eclipse of the Church.
In the third section, “God and Prophecy,” we will attempt to identify muddled views relating to so-called “end time events,” among them errors relating to “the rapture,” “the Antichrist,” “666,” “the Parusia,” so on and so forth, unbiblical teachings that may be contributing to the eclipse of the Church in particular.