Looking for an End Times Sign

LOOKING FOR AN END TIMES SIGN
LOOKING FOR AN END TIMES SIGN

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”
—2 Timothy 3:1-5

There are a great many people who are looking for signs of the end times. These people are fortunate: the Bible gives a complete list of end times signs.

Unfortunately, most people do not believe the Bible.

IF one is looking for end times signs, one of the most comprehensive list of signs can be found in 2 Timothy 3:1-5. Paul lists a number of characteristics men will exhibit in the end times.

  • Lovers of their own selves
  • Covetous
  • Boasters
  • Proud
  • Blasphemers
  • Disobedient to parents
  • Unthankful
  • Unholy
  • Without natural affection
  • Trucebreakers
  • False accusers
  • Incontinent (lacking self-restraint; uncontrolled)
  • Fierce
  • Despisers of those that are good
  • Traitors
  • Heady (willful, rash)
  • Highminded (pretentious)
  • Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God
  • Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof

 

“Pride” is a regular topic here and we’ve expounded on a few others on the list (such as ‘having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof“),  but each of these end times characteristics could easily merit an article of their own.

HOWEVER, most of the people looking for signs of the end times dismiss Paul list of signs in 2 Timothy 3:1-5.

“I know people like that!”

“There’s always been unholy people!”

“Those aren’t signs. I’m looking for REAL signs!”

It is this last group of people to which the Modern American Prophecy Industry caters.

For a price (of their latest book or DVD or a ticket to their most recent conference), the prophecy-mongers are only too happy to supply their readers with false, non-biblical, dragon-approved ‘signs of the end times.’

Rebuilt Jewish temples, a totally evil super-villain wearing a scary Anti-Christ uniform, seven-year peace treaties, fake end times wars, seven-year Great Tribulations, magic ‘raptures’ which transport pew-sitters to heaven before they’re required to stand up for Jesus: IF one hungers for flesh-pleasing, sight-walking signs of the end times, the Prophecy Industry has no shortage of man-manufactured signs–for a price.

But back to 2 Timothy.

IF one is under 30, one might think “People have always been this way.”

But if one is older than 30, then one has memories of a time when (most) men were (publicly) better.

Paul was writing about how MOST MEN will be in the end times, not the occasional churl. These are the qualities which will be TAUGHT and ADMIRED in the media and entertainment.

These are the qualities our LEADERS will exhibit.

These qualities will be so ‘normalized’ people will have a hard time even recognizing them as not normal.

All of the many people who hunger for ‘awesome’ end times signs will get their wish: they will see end times signs and lying wonders.

However, when the more obvious ‘spectacular’ signs of the end times begin, the deceived masses will not see them for what they are. They will see them as ‘proof’ that Man Has Ushered In a New Age.

A golden age: ‘heaven on earth’ some will say.

The lost and deceived will see no big road sign saying “End Times Straight Ahead.”

However, believers will know the times.

“For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.”
—1 Thessalonians 5:2-4

IF one does not take seriously the many signs the Bible offers in 2 Timothy 3:1-5, then one will not recognize any of the other REAL biblical signs when they appear.

Because almost everyone will be sent a strong delusion from God Himself.

“And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
—2 Thessalonians 2:11-12

Even the lost, the deceived and the heathen knows that ‘things are not right.’

Recognizing that the times are ready to change is no proof that one is ready to face them.

Time is growing short.

Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation

THE GOSPEL

“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. ”
–1 Corinthians 15:1-8

“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”
-—1 Corinthians 1:18-19

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