What Is the Biggest Challenge a Believer Faces in This End Time Age?
1) Direct Answer
The biggest challenge is end-time deception—religion mixed with the world, a lukewarm Laodicean spirit that looks right, talks Bible, but denies the full Word and the life of the Holy Ghost.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Jesus warned that in the last days there would arise false christs and false prophets with signs so close they would deceive the very elect if it were possible (Matthew 24:24).
- The age is Laodicea—rich, increased with goods, and yet wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked, not knowing it (Revelation 3:14–22).
- There will be a falling away and a strong delusion upon those who do not love the truth (2 Thessalonians 2:3–12).
- Many will have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof; seducing spirits and doctrines of devils will abound (2 Timothy 3:1–5; 1 Timothy 4:1).
- “Come out of her, my people,” says the Lord—separation from religious Babylon is commanded (Revelation 18:4).
- The Bride stands washed in the Blood and faithful to the Word, overcoming the beast’s pressure and the world’s systems (Revelation 7:9–17; 20:4).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
Now notice, the last days are not chiefly marked by open atheism but by polished religion without the new birth. If numbers proved truth, why was Noah a minority? If signs alone proved truth, why did Jesus warn of false signs? You see, the test is the Word and the life of the Spirit in that Word. The only safety is to be born of the Spirit, sealed by the Holy Ghost, and to measure everything—feelings, traditions, leaders, and experiences—by the written Word. Stay hot, not lukewarm; separate from mixture; love the truth; keep your garments unspotted; and hold the testimony of Jesus and the commandments of God.
4) Reinforcing Statement
The Bride in this hour overcomes by clinging to the pure Word and walking in the Spirit. Deception is the challenge; the full Word lived out by the Holy Ghost is the victory.
Ask a Follow-up Question
What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
The End-time Evangelism
62-0603 §25
Now we are thinking of evangelism at the end time. And anyone that could read a newspaper, and could read... The sky is black and darkening, and the clouds coming up, and know that we're fixing to have rain, and feel it in the air, and see the great streaks in the far distance and the flash and the pushing of the wind, knows we're going to have a storm, going to be rain pretty soon. Anyone can read a newspaper and see the conditions of the nation, nations, realize that something's fixing to happen. When you see one...
Perseverance
63-0113E §47
I was reading the other day where a man said the devil got before him, and said he was just a little bitty old devil. And he said, "Boo!" Said, "I jumped back." And said, "He said 'Boo!' "I jumped back every time he'd holler 'Boo!' And I'd jump back and he'd get bigger and I'd get littler." And said, "He kept saying 'Boo!'" Said, "I'd get smaller each time when I jumped back, and he'd get bigger." Said, "I knowed I had to fight him after awhile." Said "I looked around, thought what... I found the Word of God." Said...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 9:E-27
I want to make one more comparison between the Laodicean prophet-messenger and John, the prophet-messenger who preceded Jesus' first coming. The people in John's day mistook him for the Messiah. John 1:19-20, "And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ." Now this last day prophet-messenger will have such power before the Lord that there will be those who mistake him for the Lord...
Putting on the whole armor of God
62-0607 §104
One day, just before the end time, Abraham, the elected church, was called out. It didn't go in Sodom; it was out of Sodom. Now watch the three classes of people, always. There's always a believer, a make-believer, and a unbeliever, amongst the people. That's Abraham, Lot, and the Sodomites. Now watch. Each had a message. There was three angels came to Abraham, the church elected. Two of them went down in Sodom and brought out Lot and his wife and daughters. She turned around. Sodomites burned. Two of them---a mode...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 4:E-135
What we have just set forth would be much easier for all to understand if all believed the doctrine of the oneness of the Godhead. For there are not three persons in that Godhead but ONE. Thus we are NOT born again by the Spirit of Life of Jesus coming in, and then subsequent to that the Holy Spirit coming in to give us power. If that were true, why are we dishonoring the Father by not giving Him a part in our complete salvation, for if salvation is of the Lord and there are three Lords, then HE (Father) must have...