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.
Three kinds of believers
63-1124E §93
Dear heavenly Father, how hard it is at times to say these things, and know that perhaps, tens of thousands of people will hear this over the tape as they go out across the country and around the world. But dear Lord, it is true; it's so true. I pray, Lord, first clean my heart. Oh, Lord, test me; try me. Just look down upon me, Lord. I'm weak; I'm tired; I'm wore out. My throat is husky; my lips are parched like. And my body is wearing down, I'm getting old. And it won't be too many more times, Lord, maybe too man...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 9:E-28
Before we close this section on the messenger of the Laodicean Age, we must seriously consider these two thoughts. First, this age will have ONE Prophet-Messenger. Revelation 10:7, says, "When he (singular) shall begin to sound." There has never been an age where God gave His people two major prophets at one time. He gave Enoch (alone); He gave Noah (alone); He gave Moses (he alone had the Word though others prophesied); John the Baptist came ALONE. Now in this last day there is to be a PROPHET (not a prophetess--t...
If God be with us, then where is all the miracles?
61-1231E §26
These Midianites and Amorites, and so forth, had all come over and eat up all their land. And so the enemy had challenged, and he must be met! Their armies couldn't do it, and their priests couldn't do it, and their churches couldn't do it. So, it took the Word of God to meet his challenge. The enemy speaks today. The enemy tries to say that the days of miracles is past, that there is no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and this is only emotion, it's only a work-up. So the enemy has challenged, and h...
Church Ages, part 10: The Laodicean Church Age
60-1211E §33
But I'd just like to give my quotation of what this angel will be ---what we're looking for. Would it be all right? Being that we got a little time, I just wrote a little quotation here what I thought, the angel of this Laodicean church, to end it up. Now he will be at the end of the age like the rest of them, like the Bible. He'll be at the end of the age. Not the first of it, at the end of it, because the angel always comes to rebuke them for what they'd done. "To the angel of the church of Laodicea write these t...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 10:E-24
After what seemed an interminable time wherein Truth must surely die, men began to protest the vileness of the Roman Catholic Church, because by no stretch of the imagination could God be in such teaching and such conduct. These protests were either disregarded and died from failure to arouse attention, or were quashed by Rome. But then, God in His sovereign grace sent a messenger by the name of Martin Luther to start a reformation. He worked in a climate where the Roman Catholic Church had been given so much rope...