Those of you are following in the series of messages, will remember how at the end of chapter two

and the beginning of chapter three, we literally see the Apostle Paul right before our eyes

makes an extremely sharp turn. You can actually call it a U-turn, but it's a sharp turn.

From what he was saying to Timothy in the first two chapters and to what he's saying here

in this third chapter. In the first two chapters to Timothy, who was pastoring the church in

Ephesus as he's speaking to all of the future leaders of the church of Jesus Christ.

And he's telling about what's going on right now at that moment, in history,

where they are, and to make this sharp turn and says, in the last days. And here he makes a prophetic

word, a prophetic instruction about what will happen in those last days. In the scripture,

generally speaking, the last days

represented any time from the first coming of Christ to his second coming. That was all called

the last days. But 2,000 years into it, we certainly are much closer to the second coming than

we have ever been before. And those characteristics that he

describes here in 2 Timothy chapter 3 verses 1 to 9 have no doubt existed in the time of the

Apostle Paul in the first century. But here's the difference. Here's the difference. We're going to see

these dreadful days, these dreadful

characteristics to be on the increase, to grow in intensity, to experience it almost on a daily

basis. In fact, the best description and the best understanding of this comes from the lips of Jesus in Matthew

Chapter 24. The Lord Jesus Christ said, of course there's always been earthquakes and there's

always been wars, there's always been these environmental catastrophes, always. But the Lord Jesus

Christ explained to us that in the last days, all of these things are going to

increase in frequency.

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