No 5

(The Coming World Church)

There are organisations in the world that want to unite all religions into one large body of believers; when I say believers, I don’t necessarily mean believers in God. This endeavour is called the Ecumenical Movement; its intention is to bring all Christians (Catholic and Protestant) under one roof and eventually to include Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. The word ecumenical comes from the Greek and means “this inhabited world”. Here are two of these organizations : NCC – National Council of Churches representing 144,000 churches worldwide and WCC – World Council of Churches representing 400,000 churches. The hope of these movements is to become so powerful that every government on earth will respect and heed its laws and decrees. Recently, there was a 126-page document drawn up entitled : Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT). There were 50 signatories from the Evangelical associations and 50 signatories from the Catholic associations.

Their main idea was to foster a common agreement on the basic Christian doctrines such as salvation and justification by faith. It would be too lengthy here to explain all the negative ramifications of this manifesto but suffice to say that if certain other Evangelical preachers had not intervened, this movement would have been devastating. It is quite obvious to me that these movements whether knowingly or not are playing right into Satan’s plan as described in the book of Revelation in chapters 17 and 18. The Bible says that Antichrist will take over the political and religious arenas of the world and will, one day, be so powerful : “that he, as God, sittith in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God” (2 Thess 2 : 4b). This is when Jesus Christ returns, in glory, with the saints who were in heaven with Him to : “cast the devil into the bottomless pit and shut him up and put a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years be fulfilled” (Rev 20 : 3). Jesus Christ wins in the end; which is why all religions (without Christ) are futile.