Could This Be the Great Falling Away?

The Bible is clear that as we get further along in the Last Days and the 2nd Advent, that many folks, who call themselves Christians, will mock the idea of Jesus returning and surround themselves with false teachers in their churches who tell them WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR.

So today we read that 69% of church-goers believe that God wants them to prosper financially. 

God not only wants to bless His people, He is blessing His people — all of His people. What's more, the blessings that all of His people are enjoying will one day culminate on the Final Day of the Lord when Jesus returns and ushers God's people into His eternal rest, where our blessings will be complete. According to a new poll conducted by Lifeway, many professing Christians believe that God does want to bless them.

About a third of Protestant churchgoers say their congregation teaches that God will bless them if they donate money.
Two-thirds say God wants them to prosper. One in 4 say they have to do something for God to receive material blessings in return.

Except, sadly, the blessings that many are counting on are not the same as what the Bible teaches.

The heresy of the prosperity "gospel" inverts the clear teachings of the Bible by claiming that God wants His people to be wealthy and physically well in the here and now. Like Esau, the prosperity "gospel" trades away the eternal for the temporal.

One of the most oft-quoted Bible verses, Romans 8:28, tells us that God is working all things out for the good of those who love Him and place their faith in Jesus. If we keep reading past verse 28, we discover that the "good" of verse 28 is that Christians are being made more like Jesus for God's glory. Called sanctification, God is blessing His people in the here and now by making them more like His son.

Here;  https://pjmedia.com/faith/69-percent-of-churchgoers-believe-god-wants-them-to-prosper-financially/

That's really sad to read. 

Jesus calls ALL OF US to become disciples of His who then make disciples who then make disciples!!  And we know that all of Jesus' disciples died mostly horrendous deaths and were persecuted most of their lives!  They didn't have big houses, big savings accounts, big chariots, big boats or big cabins on a lake.  They didn't concern themselves with the things of this earth because they realized that the important part of their life would be found after death!

So WHY in the world would 70% of folks who go to church start to believe these false teachings?

Because they Bible said they would.

1 Timothy 6
False Teachers and the Love of Money
These are the things you are to teach and insist on. 3 If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, 4 they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions 5 and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.