Summary: A LOOK AT TIME IN ITS PRESENT STATE IN COMPARISON TO THAT WHICH PAUL HAD WITNESSED.

THESE ARE PERILOUS TIMES

THIS IS A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF WHAT JESUS FORKNEW, SPOKEN IN THE ACCOUNT OF SAINT MATTHEW; THAT THERE SHOULD BE TIMES LIKE THOSE THAT PAUL WAS TELLING TIMOTHY ABOUT, THIS DAY WE ARE LIVING IN PERILOUS TIMES.

IT SEEM APPARENT THAT PAUL FELT IT WAS MOST ESSENTIAL THAT TIMOTHY HIS BELOVED SON IN CHRIST KNOW THAT IN THE LAST DAYS THEY WOULD BECOME PERILOUS TIMES, DIFFICULT TIMES; DIFFICULT FOR A MAN TO KEEP A GOOD CONSCIENCE.

THESE ARE PERILOUS TIMES WHEN: MAN SHALL BE WICKED,CORRUPTED,TEMPERED AND SINFUL AGAINST THEIR OWN NATURE.

THE PERILOUS TIMES ARE THE EVIDENCE OF THE TRUTH OF SCRIPTURAL PREDICTIONS.

PAUL TELLS TIMOTHY WHAT WOULD BE THE OCCASION OF MAKING THESE TIMES PERILOUS.

THESE ARE PERILOUS TIMES WHEN: MAN HAS AN UNNATURAL SELF-LOVE, A LOVE THAT ALLOWS HIM TO GRATIFY HIMSELF, HIS OWN LUST, TAKING PLEASURE IN THE PLEASING OF SELF MORE THAN THE PLEASING OF GOD. THE CORE OF THIS IS THAT THEY LOVE THEIR CARNAL SELVES MORE THAN THEIR SPIRITUAL GOD.

THESE ARE PERILOUS TIMES WHEN: MAN WILL BE COVETEOUS, EVERY MAN FOR WHAT HE CAN GET AND KEEPING WHAT HE HAS AVAILING HIMSELF TO THE DANGERS OF MAN.

THESE ARE PERILOUS TIMES WHEN: MEN BECOME BOASTERS AND BLASTPHEMERS, PROUD OF THEMSELVES. BOASTERS BEFORE MEN THEY DESPISE AND LOOK UPON WITH SCORN, AND BLASTPHEMERS OF GOD AND HIS NAME REGARDING NEITHER GOD NOR REGARDING MEN OF GOD OR VISE VERSA.

THESE ARE PERILOUS TIME WHEN: CHILDREN HAVE BECOME DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS, BOTH IN DUTY AND GRATITUDE AND PARENTS ARE WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION TO THEIR CHILDREN DON’T YOU SEE IT IN MODERN SOCIETY IT’S LIKE AVERAGE LIFE FOR THE CHILD TO KILL THE PARENT OR THE PARENT THE CHILD. NEITHER THE PARENT NOR THE CHILD HAVE REVERENCE ONE TO ANOTHER.

CHILDREN ARE BEING TRAINED BY THE PARENT TO KILL,STILL AND DESTROY WHATEVER CHANCE HE HA SIN SOCIETY.

THESE ARE PERILOUS TIMES WHEN: WHEN MEN HAVE BECOME UNTHANKFUL AND UNHOLY. UNTHANKFUL FOR THE GIFTS GOD HAS GIVEN THEM (LIFE-HEALTH AND STRENGTH)AT THE CROSS, UNHOLY BECAUSE HE DOES NOT EXCEPT THE GIFT OF GOD.

HE’S IMPURE,DEFILED,UNTHANKFUL,AND CAUGHT UP IN FLESHLY LUSTS.

THESE ARE PERILOUS TIMES WHEN: MEN WILL NOT BE HELD BY THE BONDS OF NATURE, COMMON HONESTY AND WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION.

THESE ARE PERILOUS TIMES WHEN: MEN ARE FALSE ACCUSERS ONE OF ANOTHER-DEVILS ONE TO ANOTHER, HAVING NO REGARD TO THE GOOD NAME OF OTHERS OR TO THE RELIGIOUS OBLIGATION OR ANY OATH. THINKING THEMSELVES TO BE WITHOUT RESTRAINT, BELIEVING THEY ARE AT LIBERTY TO SAY AND DO WHAT THEY PLEASE.

THEY HAVE:

1) NO GOVERNMENT OVER THEM (ABOVE THE LAW)

2) NO RULE OVER THEIR OWN SPIRIT ( A SOUL SOLD TO THE DEVIL)

THEREFORE THEY ARE LIKE A CITY WITH BROKEN DOWN WALLS, THEY ARE TRECHEROUS,WILFUL,HAUGHTY,HIGH MINDED AND ABOVE ALL THINGS TRAITORS.

JESUS WARNED US AGAINST ALL OF THESE ALLIANCES THEREFORE, THIS SHOULD NOT BE A SURPRISE, OR SHOCK TO YOU. THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN IS IN A DEFINATE STATE OF EMERGENCY. 911 WAS NOTHING IN COMPARISON TO WHAT TO BE SEEN BY THE SINNER AND MANY WHO PROFESS SALVATION, BECAUSE THEY DON’T REALIZE THAT "TALK IS CHEAP" "ACTIONS SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS"

A QUESTION TO YOU

WHO ARE YOU IN THESE PERILOUS TIMES? EXAMINE YOURSELVES. KNOW THAT 99 1/2% WONT DO.