{"id":2323,"date":"2023-01-22T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:13","slug":"last-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2323","title":{"rendered":"LAST DAYS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This morning when I stretched out this list from 2 Timothy 3:1-5 of how people will be &#8220;in the last days&#8221;, it made quite an impression on me. Take a look.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul warns Timothy:<i> But mark this:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>There will be terrible times in the last days.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>People will be:<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><i>Lovers of themselves<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Lovers of money<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Boastful<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Proud<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Abusive\u00a0<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Disobedient to their parents<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Ungrateful<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Unholy<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Without love<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Unforgiving<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Slanderous<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Without self-control<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Brutal<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Not lovers of the good<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Treacherous<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Rash<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Conceited<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Having a form of godliness &#8211; but denying its power.<\/i><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Have nothing to do with them.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is important to note that when Paul speaks of &#8220;the last days&#8221;, he doesn&#8217;t have in mind a handful of years or even decades immediately preceding the second coming of Christ.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fact that he is warning Timothy &#8211; 2,000 years ago &#8211; to have nothing to do with these sorts of people should disabuse us of that notion.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Paul&#8217;s perspective, any of the years between Christ&#8217;s ascension to heaven and his second coming qualify as &#8220;the last days&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is how some people are right now. We are living in the last days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning when I stretched out this list from 2 Timothy 3:1-5 of how people will be &#8220;in the last days&#8221;, it made quite an impression on me. Take a look. Paul warns Timothy: But mark this:\u00a0 There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be: Have nothing to do with them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}