"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 it's power. have nothing to do with them.
they are the kind that 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 acknowledge the truth. just as jannes and jambres opposed moses, so also these men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. but they will not get very far because in the case of those men their folly will be clear to all."
this was written thousands of years ago - does it sound like our world today? the bible is a living, working book everyday, all day. the story begins with creation and still continues to grow. when you read the texts you start to learn about mankind and whom mankind is. the books of daniel and revelations clearly give us prophecy of what will happen to our world, along with so many chapters in other books of the bible.
i did a study on revelations years ago and i have to stay it still scares me. i had nightmares about it, because i truly fear GOD's wrath. choosing to ignore GOD is your choice, but I often wonder why someone would choose that. we have become so self involved that we can longer look at the whole picture and we only choose to hear the verses that make us feel good about who we are. alot of churches have this problem because they would rather stay politically correct (whatever that means) than teach the actual words of the bible in fear of offending their congregations.
i am in no way a biblical scholar, but i know this be true that by ignoring his words we are only destroying ourselves.
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