A Glimpse Of the End Of Times

Title: A Glimpse of The End Times

Text: 2 Timothy 3:1-9

Introduction

Striving to be a noble man in the eyes of the Lord is indeed hard to achieve. This chapter will tell us how hard it is especially in the end times.

Paul gave a brief picture of what will it be in the end times. A picture of hard headed people who have turned their backs against the Lord of Hosts. He is warning Timothy of the great apostasy that is about to come. But as for him, Timothy should be following the ways of Paul and things that he learned from him.

The People In The End Times

Lovers of themselves – The Greek word used here “philautos” φίλαυτος literally means lovers of himself or evidently selfish. This is a picture of people who begin to think only for themselves. They are interested in enriching themselves without thinking of helping others. The central focus of these people is themselves. They do things to benefit themselves even at the expense of others.

The word itself does not identify a social status; it is either rich or poor. Some become rich in doing illegal things. Other rich people do not even have a time to neither look back nor help the poor. And sometimes when they help, they would like that their names would be recognized. They want their names to appear on public walls, bridges, roads, waiting sheds, and some even in the plastics that they use in packaging.

The poor always look at themselves as poor, having “over” self-pity. How many times that the poor depended on help instead of working hard to improve their lives? Many of them have been narrow minded accepting a lie that they are poor and they can do nothing. But looking around, how many people who are poor yet because of tears, sweat, hardships, faith, and striving was able to reap a good harvest?

Lovers of money – In connection to lovers of themselves, most often people will be lovers of money. All they see is that they should earn money so that they can buy things that they want and desires. While others dream that they can buy of something they need, they continuously dream to add something to what they want.

Some businessman tries to enrich themselves at the expense of others. Many will desire easy money. Women try to break the moral code to satisfy them with thing that they want. So as to young men who are willing to sell themselves to homosexuals just to have a new “Nokia” or “Sony Ericson”, or “Laptop”.

All that they desire is to earn more and more money. While forgetting to enjoy God’s gifts.

Boastful – These are the people who claim to themselves what they do not possess. This is in connection with pride and conceit. Many of these people fall on claiming to be a relative of someone who is high in the government. Others claim that they have done something but the truth is that they cannot do anything without the help of others.

Proud – Is also well known as “Pride”. It is unreasonable conceit. A person may be boastful of his talent, beauty, wealth etc. Some people even see pride as one the essentialities of their inner beings.

Some famous people died early because of “pride”. God destroys and punishes who desires to be more like Him and much more than Him.

Abusive – These are the person who takes advantage of things that they do not own at the expense of others. These people are brutal and always want more than what they have and what they can.

Some of these abusive people are violent some are not. But beware of them, for they will really tear you into pieces.

Disobedient to their parents – These are the people usually composed of younger generations. Many of them are rebellious to their parents, while they also have a broken and dysfunctional family. Here we can see that it is really important that we up bring our children in Christian way.

Looking at our world, cases of broken families and dysfunctional families is continuously rising. I would say that most of the violence and abuse to children are the result of family disintegration.

This scene does not end there, it results further to children being so hard headed because of the trauma that they are experiencing with their parents plus bad influences from other children who has the same problem.

...To Be Continued

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