I’ve been confronted quite a bit as of late regarding the idea that this world is going to pot. I would expect such non-sense from the secular world, but why in the world am I hearing it from other Christian brothers and sisters. In fact, why has a section of the Church subscribed to such an eschatology? I’m not sure how this belief will bring glory to God on earth as it is in heaven, but I came across this FaceBook entry by P. Andrew Sandlin that ought to give good and thinking Christians insight to the matter.
In the Bible, the conflict is never between physical and non-physical; it’s between righteousness and sin. Sin is the problem; materiality is not the problem. The most evil being in the world is pure spirit, and the godliest man who ever lived (Jesus Christ) lived and died and rose again in a body. If you don’t care about the material world, you don't care much about the Gospel, because the Gospel is about reversing the evils that sin introduced into the material, created world.
-P. Andrew Sandlin
The root of the matter is gnosticism, and it must be rooted out. Gnosticism has lowered the defenses of Christian institutions and churches which has allowed other ideologies such as cultural Marxism to creep in. It’s clear, more now than ever, Christians need hermeneutics and worldview training.