Godlessness in the Last Days
2 Timothy 3:
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.
2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
Many lovers of money worldwide, with the richest residing in the US, France, Spain, Mexico, China and Hong Kong.
Proud and arrogant men and women rule companies and financial interests more powerful than countries.
We sense the extreme poverty of so many without knowing the truth of many billionaires like Carlos Slim Helú who dominates more than a country just devastated by yet another earthquake.
Borderless prisons of poverty abuse the starving and obliterate opposition.
Difficulty in these last days
Difficulty in these last daysHow many rulers of this temporary darkness are without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit and more?
Evil rulers of countries and military forces threaten apocalypse, condone persecution and order elimination of those who oppose them. Is the Lord God their God?
Hardly a mention of evil in these trying times. Yet one word describes all – godlessness.
Meanwhile international headline news conglomerates skew our focus toward consumption, power and fleeting fame.
Signs of the End of the Age
Enlightened ones speculate with futily about global warming and disasters of ‘mother nature.’
Earth did not create us, aliens did not plant us and apes did not conceive our ancestors. Yet idolatry abounds in these times of difficulty.
When hurricane approaches or disaster strikes do any dare mention ‘acts of God?’
Matthew 24:
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. 2 But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”
3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
4 And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. 5 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.
6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.
9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. 10 And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.
11 And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.
12 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
No One Knows That Day and Hour
In two millennia since the beginning of these last days, in recent centuries of these last hours, in passing minutes of threatening signs:
Has your love grown cold? Will you endure to the end?
Is your gospel of the kingdom of Christ Jesus a testimony of truth, an anchor of belief and hope of love?
37 For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man…
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44 Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
2 Peter 3:
… scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. 4 They will say,
“Where is the promise of his coming? …”
5 For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, 6 and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.
7 But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
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10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man…
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