"1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult (ragingly insane) times will come.
2 For people will be lovers of self,
lovers of money, (excessive desire to acquire wealth)
boastful, ("showing excessive pride and self-satisfaction in one's achievements, possessions, or abilities.")
arrogant, (exaggerated sense of self importance)
slanderers, (someone who intentionally harms another person's reputation by spreading false and damaging statements about them.)
disobedient to parents, ( intentionally not following what a parent or authority figure says, or what the law or a rule requires.)
ungrateful, (not feeling or showing gratitude.)
unholy, (sinful; wicked)
3 unloving, (not loving or affectionate)
irreconcilable, (incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment)
malicious gossips, (disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people)
without self-control, (being unable to control one's actions or feelings)
brutal, (savagely violent)
haters of good, (people who are cruel, unloving, and unforgiving, and who hate what is good:)
4 treacherous, (guilty of or involving betrayal or deception)
reckless, (irresponsible. reckless)
conceited, (excessively proud of oneself; vain)
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power;
avoid such people as these."
This is the gist of what we face regularly now as we walk through a dying and godless world.
Families are being destroyed by those who have such a high opinion of themselves that no one else matters except their own self-exaltation. This is the very mentality of the devil and it is his thoughts and his way that permeate the minds of those who are perishing.
Nothing can change the way things are when the world becomes like the days of Noah and Lot, the only thing left is for God to destroy it with disaster.
Matthew 24:37-39
37 For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. 38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be."
This final and overwhelming disaster of the world is coming in the tribulation. The first half of the 7 years will be terrible natural disasters when 1/4 (8.2 billion people now on the earth and more if time passes, 1/4 of that number) of the people on the earth will be destroyed. This is when the people will be looking for a man to repair everything for the world, this man will be the antichrist. He will promise amazing things bring horrible persecution to the world.
Some of those who have trusted Christ during this time will be martyred and others will be protected in the rocks. Those who trust in the antichrist will be oppressed and dominated in ways never before experienced on this earth. Those who take his mark seal their fate of hell by their act of worship in taking the mark.
We are walking in times that are being set up for this one-world antichrist system. Those of us who are born again will not see this antichrist, we will be in heaven celebrating the marriage supper of the Lamb while this 7 years of God's wrath is occurring on earth.
At the end of the tribulation, the church will return with Christ to destroy evil in the church, we will be with Him but He will do the job of expunging evil from the earth and set up His kingdom on earth in Jerusalem where He will reign for 1000 years and we will reign with Him.
The born again believer watches the world implode with wickedness now but it does not destroy our faith because we know the end of the matter and that brings great hope and joy.
Luke 21:28
"Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads because your redemption is drawing near.”
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