The Terrible Times Of The Last Days

Understand this, that in the Last Days

There will set in PERILOUS TIMES of great stress and trouble--

Hard to deal with and hard to bear.

For people will be lovers of self and [utterly] self-centered,

Lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate (greedy) desire for wealth,

Proud and arrogant and contemptuous boasters.

They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffers),

Disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane.

[They will be] without natural (human) affection (callous and inhuman),

Relentless—admitting of no truce of appeasement.

[They will be] slanderers—false accusers, trouble makers;

Intemperate and loose in morals and conduct,

Uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good.

[They will be] treacherous (betrayers), rash [and] inflated with self-conceit.

[They will be] lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements

More than and rather than lovers of God.

They hold a form of piety (true religion),

They deny and reject and are strangers to the Power of it--

Their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession.

Avoid [all] such people--turn away from them.

For among them are those who worm their way into homes

And captivate silly and weak-natured and spiritually dwarfed women,

Loaded down with [the burden of their] SINS,

[And easily] swayed and led away by various EVIL desires

And seductive impulses.

[These weak women will listen to anybody who will teach them];

They are forever inquiring and getting information,

But are never able to arrive at a recognition and knowledge of the Truth.

Now just as Jannes and Jambres were hostile to and resisted Moses,

So these men also are hostile to and oppose the Truth.

They have depraved and distorted minds, and are reprobate and counterfeit

And to be rejected as far as the Faith is concerned. [Exod. 7:11.]

But they will not get very far,

For their rash folly will become obvious to everybody,

As was that of those [magicians mentioned].

Now you have closely observed and diligently followed my teaching,

Conduct, purpose in life, Faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

Persecutions, sufferings, such as occurred to me

At Antioch, at Iconium, and Lystra,

Persecutions I endured, but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

Indeed ALL who delight in piety

And are determined to live a devoted and godly life in Christ Jesus

Will meet with PERSECUTION--

That is, will be made to SUFFER because of their religious stand.

But wicked men and imposters will go on from bad to worse,

Deceiving and leading astray others

And being deceived and lead astray themselves.

But as for you, continue to hold to the things that you have learned

And of which you are convinced, knowing from whom you learned [them],

And how from your childhood you have had a knowledge of

And been acquainted with the Sacred Writings

Which are able to instruct you and give you the understanding for Salvation

Which comes through Faith in Christ Jesus

[That is, through the leaning of the entire human personality

On God in Christ Jesus in absolute Trust and confidence

In His Power, Wisdom and Goodness].

Every Scripture is God-breathed—given by His inspiration--

And profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of SIN,

For correction of error and discipline in obedience,

And training in RIGHTEOUSNESS [that is, in Holy Living,

In conformity to God's will in thought, purpose and action],

So that the man of God may be complete and proficient,

Well-fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3, AMP)

We are living in the last of the Last Days,

The last two thousand years of Time.

There will set in PERILOUS TIMES of great stress and trouble--

Hard to deal with and hard to bear.

In order to OVERCOME these times one will have to believe the Word of God,

And hear the voice of God as He speaks specifically to us.

Because of the increase in wickedness the love of most will grow cold,

But he who STANDS FIRM to the END will be Saved. (Matthew 24:12-13)

I pray that those who read this message will Stand Firm to the End.

Today, the world is raging against God, rushing toward oblivion. (Psalm 2)

America is being ground to powder because of her SIN against God.

Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation! (Acts 2:40)

As God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!

Father, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as in Heaven!