I am well aware that thousands of you who will read this booklet are very sincere in your desire to be Christian. You truly think that the form of religion you grew up practicing is what Jesus Christ and the Apostles taught. Many ministers and priests also sincerely believe the same things. You mean well.
What you need to realize is that billions of other human beings have lived and died without ever understanding or practicing any type of professing Christianity. The majority of the world’s population has never—at any time—professed Christianity. And most of these people have also been very “sincere”—just as you may be. So it is not a matter of sincerity or of following the majority. It is a matter of finding the genuine truth regarding the purpose of human existence and finding the true way to fulfill that magnificent purpose.
Is sincere religiosity enough? No. All religions are not “equal.” If you are willing to prove to yourself that the One great Creator is the true God and that the Bible is His inspired revelation to mankind, then you must understand that there is only one way to eternal life. And that way is through the true Jesus Christ of the Bible. As the Apostle Peter stated, “Let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:10–12).
Yet very few professing Christians even begin to grasp the enormity of the deception orchestrated by Satan the devil. They find it hard to grasp the fact that Satan has not only deceived those in the pagan, non-Christian world, but also devised a counterfeit Christianity and foisted it off on millions who sincerely think they are following the Christ of the Bible. As the Apostle Paul warned the Corinthians, “I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!” (2 Corinthians 11:3–4).
Indeed, another Jesus—a totally different “Jesus Christ”—has been palmed off on an unsuspecting humanity. Remember, a counterfeit $100 bill is designed to look very much like an authentic bill. Seeing the apparent similarities, people are often deceived into accepting the counterfeit. So it is with Satan, the Master Deceiver. For your own sake, please be willing to consider whether you have been misled into assuming that you are truly following the Christ of the Bible and what He actually taught, for your Bible clearly indicates that only genuine Christians will be protected during the coming holocaust—the Great Tribulation described by Jesus Christ.
Very soon now—within the next several years—the great God of all creation will begin to intervene directly, more powerfully than ever. The hurricanes that come smashing through Florida, New Orleans, and the Gulf Coast of the United States are only a small prelude to what God will begin to do in these last days. Jesus Christ specifically predicted that “there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven…. And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken” (Luke 21:11, 25–26).
The great God will get mankind’s attention. He will help those who are willing to understand to “come out” of this modern Babylon (Revelation 18:4) and to extricate themselves from Satan’s society.
The Apostle Paul was also inspired to tell us that Satan the devil is the literal “god” of this world’s society. Paul wrote that “even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them” (2 Corinthians 4:3–4).
