I wonder to what degree we apply a sort of “selective reading disorder” when it comes to Scripture. Specifically, do we get that the super-majority of warnings about the End Times is not directed at the unsaved but squarely at so-called believers? There were many in the last days of Israel and Judah who thought they were safe simply because they were members of the group designated to be God’s people. But the repeated warnings of what was to come, why it was to come, and how to avoid it were all directed at those who lived under the false assumption that God would never allow such a thing to happen to them. They thought it was for someone else.

It seems that something begins to happen when those believing themselves to be God’s people become so comfortable that they no longer actually live consistently like God’s people: they begin to take God for granted. And this is most often visibly expressed in how they treat the things of God, turning them into something for their own benefit and pleasure instead of expressly dedicating them to His. Most will label me “old fashioned” or “out of touch”, but I find it revealing that no one erects a church to look like a traditional church any more; they are now “multi-use” facilities. No longer is there a style of music exclusive to church; it’s all an adoption of the world’s styles. The Bible is no longer the mainstream, “normal” centerpiece of the pulpit. Very little about church as implemented today would be recognizable by our grandparents.

Because of our “selective reading disorder”, we may be missing the point that God’s judgment as documented in the Bible often came not because of what the heathen were doing, but the so-called saved. And the evidence of a people becoming more and more lost is found in the way they re-make the things of God into something for their self. _††_†

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