But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
To me, that sounds like our world today.
Throughout history . . . there have occasionally been what--3-4--no more than 5-7
factors in the direction of prophetically predicted events or conditions.
AS NEVER BEFORE IN HISTORY, THERE ARE NOT DOZENS.
ISRAEL AGAIN AS A NATION IN A DAY HAS NEVER BEEN THE LAST 2000 YEARS UNTIL 1948.
THAT'S JUST A FACT.
A LOT of other facts follow accordingly. One can deny them. One can ignore them. One can rationalize them away to sleep better. But it doesn't actually remove them.
THE FACTS ARE STILL THERE.
HISTORY AS WE HAVE KNOWN IT IS STILL RACING TO THE BIBLICALLY PREDICTED CLOSE.
Pretend otherwise, if you wish.
God is usually not that impressed by such notions.
Nor will you be when you are finally forced to realize you calculated wrong.
Very true, yet there are some empirical differences. Legalized abortion. Homosexual marriage. 50% divorce rates. Gang violence. Living together outside of marriage as a common and accepted practice. Nudity in "family" films. Explicit content and nudity at public sports events.
These are all events which did not exist 50 years ago.
Consider. The St. Valentines Day Massacre was considered truly horrible because 7 people were gunned down in cold blood in Chicago. Seven people! That would barely make the evening news these days, yet then it was a national story for months and became infamous enough to make it into history books.