by Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News:
The two statements contained in the title of this article come directly from the Bible, in Paul’s second letter to Timothy.
Here are the words of Paul describing “the last days.”
As you read the text in this letter written over 2000 years ago, see if they describe the culture we are currently living in here in 2023.
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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.
They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth–men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.
But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their foolishness will be clear to everyone. (2 Timothy 3:1-9)
For the people living during the time period that Paul wrote this letter to Timothy, they truly were living in “the last days.”
The time frame from when this was written was just years before the destruction of the city of Jerusalem and the Great Temple in Jerusalem, which completed an “era” of human history.
Today, we are also coming to the end of an “era” of human history, which many are referring to as “The Great Reset.”
It could be the ultimate end of the human race, where the prophecies of Jesus Christ will come true where he will return to earth and destroy the heavens and the earth with fire. (2 Peter chapter 3)
Or it could be the beginning of a new “era” with a significantly reduced human population that survives and remains on earth.
We don’t need to know which “era” awaits us to take action NOW to prepare for what is coming, because that preparation is the same, no matter which “end” is coming.
Truth vs. Deception
Living in the “last days” of this current, fading “era” of human history, it is becoming harder and harder to distinguish “truth” from deceptions based on lies.
Jesus made it very clear, when he walked this earth in human form, that there were only 2 classes of human beings on the earth.
Those who followed God and accepted Jesus as the savior of the world, the prophesied Messiah, and those who served Satan, who controls the world system, which includes, finances, politics, and religion.
All other ways of classifying human beings, such as by race, nationality, religion, gender, social/economic status, or any other way of classifying human beings, is wrong, and is not part of the “truth.”
For a more comprehensive treatment of this subject, please see:
One in Christ: Abolishing Discrimination and Class Warfare in the Messianic New World Order
Jesus claimed to be the ONLY way to God, and he claimed to not only reveal truth, but that he actually was the very definition of “truth”.
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)
What does it mean to say “I am the truth”?
It means that everything he says, all of the words that come out of his mouth, are true.
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