This morning when I stretched out this list from 2 Timothy 3:1-5 of how people will be "in the last days", it made quite an impression on me. Take a look.
Paul warns Timothy: But mark this:
There will be terrible times in the last days.
People will be:
- Lovers of themselves
- Lovers of money
- Boastful
- Proud
- Abusive
- Disobedient to their parents
- Ungrateful
- Unholy
- Without love
- Unforgiving
- Slanderous
- Without self-control
- Brutal
- Not lovers of the good
- Treacherous
- Rash
- Conceited
- Lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God
- Having a form of godliness - but denying its power.
Have nothing to do with them.
It is important to note that when Paul speaks of "the last days", he doesn't have in mind a handful of years or even decades immediately preceding the second coming of Christ.
The fact that he is warning Timothy - 2,000 years ago - to have nothing to do with these sorts of people should disabuse us of that notion.
From Paul's perspective, any of the years between Christ's ascension to heaven and his second coming qualify as "the last days".
This is how some people are right now. We are living in the last days.
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