Guetapens, have you ever heard that word before? It was the winning word in the 2012 spelling bee, and the average American Christian is in one—a guetapens—a trap or snare.
Let’s first consider what the average American Christian is like and then I will show you how they are in a trap. I ran across a great article the other day that does a good job of summing up what the average American Christian is like. (Note: Post-trib view.)
Here are some snippets from the article showing what he believes the average American Christian is like.
The Western church reports obesity rates
identical to the secular population. Consumer debt among believers averages $96,000
per household. Christian media consumption tracks with mainstream entertainment
metrics. Pharmaceutical dependence for mood management is statistically
equivalent between churchgoers and non-attendees. Traditional disciplines
including fasting, extended prayer, prison visitation, and refugee hospitality
have declined to single-digit participation rates in most denominations.
Meanwhile, church facility spending has increased 340% since 1990. A theology
that interprets these conditions as divine favor addresses a felt need…
The Western church has created a Jesus in its own image: a Jesus who cares about your credit score, your vacation plans, and your retirement portfolio. A Jesus who would never let His people suffer. A Jesus who is essentially a divine butler, delivering comfort on demand and extracting you before the real trouble starts.
Personally, having rubbed shoulders with many American Christians, I agree with his assessment and am very disheartened at what I have seen in the average church attendee. I see way too much worldliness and a glaring lack of discernment about what is right and wrong.
And how has the average American Christian trapped themselves? The have trapped themselves with their worldliness and their false pre-tribulation rapture theory, as the author linked above so eloquently describes.
The rapture doctrine is the perfect theology for a lukewarm church. It requires no repentance. It requires no preparation. It requires no sacrifice. It requires no cross. It tells you that your obesity is “prosperity,” your debt is “blessing,” your apathy is “waiting on the Lord,” and your entertainment addiction is “Christian liberty.”
And how has the modern pre-tribulation theory, which wasn’t invented until the 1800s, trapped the modern Christian? It has trapped them because it has left them totally unprepared for the tribulations that will occur in the end times, including the great tribulation—the persecution of the antichrist—which will include not being able to buy or sell without the biometric I.D.—the mark.
Now think about this; what if someone doesn’t think that they are in the end times, because the rapture has not occurred yet, and they take the biometric I.D., what will happen to them.
9 And the third angel followed them, saying
with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his
mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the
wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his
indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence
of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth
up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the
beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Rev 14
The
average American church member is in a Guetapens. It’s time for the church to
wake up, suffering is coming and the less that a person is spiritually,
mentally, and physically prepared for what is coming the worse off they will
be.
And if we are in the last 7 years now, which I believe that as of 10/13/2025 we are, then the time is very short.
"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." — Luke 21:36
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