“…There will be difficult times
in the Last Days!” –2 Timothy 3:1
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The Last Days
Remember that there will be difficult (perilous) times in these Last Days. People will be selfish, greedy, boastful and conceited; they will be insulting, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful and irreligious; they will be unkind, merciless, slanderers, violent and fierce; they will hate the good; they will be treacherous, reckless and swollen with pride; they will love pleasure rather than God; they will hold to the outward form of our religion but reject its real power. Keep away from such people! –2 Timothy 3:1-5
Signs of the End of the Age
When Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately saying, ‘Tell us, when will this be and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?’
Jesus answered them, “Beware that no one leads you astray. For many will come in My Name saying, ‘I am the Messiah.’ They will lead many astray. 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. For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, there will be famines and earthquakes in various places, all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs.”
Persecutions Foretold
Jesus continued, “Then they will hand you over to be tortured and will put you to death, you will be hated by all nations because of My Name. Then many will fall away and they will betray one another and hate one another, many false prophets will arise and lead many astray and because of the increase of lawlessness, the love of many will grow cold but the one who endures to the end will be saved. This Good News of the Kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the world as a testimony to all nations and then the end will come.”
Hear The Truth
St. Paul: “For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires and they will turn away from listening to the Truth and wander away to myths.” –2 Timothy 4:3-4
The Promise of the Lord’s Coming
“…First of all you must understand this, that in the Last Days scoffers will come, scoffing and indulging their own lusts and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since our ancestors died, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation!’
They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the Word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water, through which the world of that time was deluged with water and perished. By the same Word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, being kept until the Day of Judgment and destruction of the godless.
Do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like one day. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some think of slowness but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.
The Day of the Lord will come like a thief and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise and the elements will be dissolved with fire and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.
Since all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what sort of persons ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the Coming of the Day of God, because of which the heavens will be set ablaze and dissolved and the elements will melt with fire? In accordance with His promise (1 Corinthians 1:8; Philippians 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 3:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:23) we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.
Final Exhortation (Appeal) and Doxology
Therefore, beloved, while you are waiting for these things, strive to be found by Him at peace, without spot or blemish and regard the patience of the Lord as salvation. So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, since you are forewarned, beware that you are not carried away with the error of the lawless and lose your own stability but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen!
- Jesus taught, “The time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God has come near; Repent and Believe in The Good News!” –Mark 1:15
If you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and Believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved! For one believes with the heart and so is justified and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved. The Scripture says, “No one who Believes in Him will be put to shame.” (Isaiah 28:16; Psalm 25:1-22) For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and is generous to all who call on Him. For, everyone who calls on the Name of the Lord shall be saved!” –Romans 10:9-13
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