2 Timothy 3:1-7 KJV
[1] This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, [4] traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; [5] having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. [6] For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, [7] ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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Perilous: full of danger or risk
Covetous: Wanting or desiring what others have
Proud: having or showing a high or excessively high opinion of oneself or one’s importance.
Blasphemers: Being disrespectful to God or things related to God.
Unholy: making the sinful nature of this world common to us that we no longer contest it and taking on the form of our sinful nature and our lower nature not deeming it important to be different and peculiar. In essence, no longer wanting to be pure.
Incontinent:
Lacking restraint and self control. No longer having self control or self discipline.
This greek word was a word used commonly because of the experience in the ancient world due to political instability, natural disasters, and societal upheaval.
Fierce: aggressiveness
Think about driving in the car and how we have aggressive drivers that are inconsiderate of others on the road
High minded – to be filled with selfish pride, or to be like Satan, lifted up, and inflated with self-conceit.
Our boast should never be in ourselves, it should be in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 10:17-18 ESV
“Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
Unthankful
First let’s talk about what thankfulness is. This is in my book named Travail the Pant of God and the righteous and it is available on amazon.com
Psalms 100:4 – 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
When we speak of the Prayer of Thanksgiving, this implies that there are multiple ways we can give thanks for what we are thankful for. Giving thanks is a response to the grace that God has extended to us.
Thanksgiving can be extended for who God is and for what He has done. It can be a prayer, a song, a dance, an offering (such as a wave offering or a monetary offering), or any other type of offering unto God, including a vow and many more expressions that one or many can give unto the Lord.
Thankfulness is one of the ways we exalt God. It stands as an intersection point between our will and God’s will. Thankfulness begins in the heart and can extend to a deity. It is the expression of love and purity of hope that rests on the altar to produce a byproduct of faith. Thanksgiving is an offering that was offered to the priest. The priest lifted this offering up before the Lord.
Let’s read Nehemiah 12:8:
Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.
The beauty of this Scripture is that it shows how the levites, those who worked in the temple managed the Thanksgiving. Meaning as our bodies are now the temple of the Holy Spirit we manage the offerings of Thanksgiving. This type of offering went through the priest. The importance of this is also seen in the Bible through the passage about the ten lepers.
Luke 17:11-19 KJV
[11] And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. [12] And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off: [13] and they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. [14] And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed. [15] And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, [16] and fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. [17] And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? [18] There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. [19] And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.
So now we offer Thanksgiving to our High Priest, Jesus. Out of the Thanksgiving that we offer to Jesus for what He has done, we are able to receive wholeness from our Thanksgiving offerings unto Him.
When you become unthankful, you have now come to a place where you no longer acknowledge God for what He has done and even what He has allowed to filter through man to you.
Form of Godliness
This is appearing to follow God but we have not allowed the Holy Spirit to do the work of sanctification and purification through the renewing of our mind that we changed into His image and likeness.
ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
SELF EXPLANATORY
Another Scripture about the warnings of the signs of the times, the coming of Christ
Luke 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
