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 §22
And here we are down to the Laodicean age and we're taught in the Laodicean age that Christ was put out of His church, and was even knocking on the door trying to get back in. So when we see that happening, we know what age we're living in. And then we're at the closing of the history of the world. The book is now being finished. The last line will be wrote across it someday, and she will be closed up, then time shall be no more. And there's a great drama being set, and angels are standing over the skies, watching....
Three kinds of believers
63-1124E §60
What did they do then? We find out that they ... that these people, these believers (so-called believers) ... but in forms of religion, and they failed to see the identified truth of the Word of God, because it's against what they believe, See, it don't make any difference what you believe; how loyal you are; how religious you are or--that doesn't have one thing to do to it. Sincerity--why that don't have nothing to do with it. I've seen people so sincere. I seen the heathens burn their children, feed them to the c...
Hidden Life with Christ
56-0213 §28
Through the Lutheran age came forth, "The just shall live by faith," the outer court. Along come the Methodist age, the sanctification age (they call the second definite work of grace), which come in in that age, and was the altar age. And then in the last days the restoration of the Holy Spirit, the hidden life. And I'm sure, right here's where the trouble lays. I want you to see it. Right here's where the trouble lays with the church today, coming from ... can't deviate between the altar and the holiest of holies...
The End-time Evangelism
62-0603 §64
Just exactly like in Eden, like down in Noah's time, and down in the time of Moses, down in the time of the law, and then a time of grace, and now in the evening time. There's many others there if we had time, but I've just skipped over them 'cause we won't have time. Of each one saying what would be in the next age, but the church becomes so churchy with their creeds, with their dogmas, and their make-beliefs and their man-made theories, until they miss that Word. Now you can see what evening-time evangelism is go...
Spiritual food in due season
65-0718E §20
So notice, then during the time that He was going to punish the unbeliever, He made a way for the believer. The same thing He does each time... In the days when He was going to destroy the world by water, He made a way of escape for Noah. In the days that He was going to drown Egypt, He made a way of escape across the sea for His people. How God makes His way! And where there is no way, He is that way. He is that way. Now, we realize that we are facing some of the ... one of the greatest hours that history has ever...