END TIMES 1 | PERILOUS TIMES

1. End Times: Are We in the Last Days?

a) What are the signs that we are living in the last days before Jesus Christ’s return? Are we in the end times?  Are there signs in the Bible which we can read that tell us that we are living in the days just prior to His coming again?  What Scriptures reveal that we could be living in the very last days before Jesus comes to judge the world?

2. Perilous Times


a) The study of the end times is called Eschatology which basically means a study of the end things. The end things in this case is a study of the end times and deciphering the nearness of Christ’s return based upon Scriptures.  Eschatology is concerned with the end of the present age and events that lead up to Jesus Christ’s return to judge the unsaved world and to reward believers for their good works or the lack thereof.

b) In the first place, we don’t have to look for any prophecy in the Bible to be fulfilled before Jesus can return again.  The sad fact is that for those who choose today to not believe in Jesus Christ, that day will be a terrible one.  For those who are not believers, they will face eternal judgment and have no second chance for salvation and escaping hell.  For those who today have already placed their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, they will receive their rewards.  Today is the day of salvation for the unsaved because He can return at any given moment (2 Corinthians 6:2).

c) In Paul’s last letter to Timothy and having the knowledge that his death was imminent, he warned Timothy by telling him to, “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 such people” (2 Timothy 3:1-5).  Certainly, Paul was right that “evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13).

d) These verses have come to pass into their fullness today.  Read these things written in 2 Timothy and you can see them already prevalent in society:  greed is unbelievable, children are rebelling against parents, people are lovers of themselves, people are full of pride, boastful, abusive, ungrateful, having no natural love, unforgiving, no self-control (with sexual immorality rampant), brutal, and having a hypocritical look of godliness but living in duplicity.  These appear to be more so today than in Paul’s day. 

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