Perilous time’s

Text:

2 Timothy 3:1–9 Paul writing to Timothy the pastor of the church in Ephesus in 67 AD

Chapter 3

1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

2 Timothy 3:1

1 This know also(emphatic), that in the last days perilous times shall come.

Last days- Es-chat-os-(eschatology) Last port or final destination, Hem-era- NOTICE days,

not seasons

Perilous-(G) Chal-e-pos - Violent and fierce, Wild, difficult, hard to bear, distressing,

Used only one other time in the bible (Demoniac of Gaderah)

Times- (G) kairos- God appointed time

Mark 5 :2

2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him( uncontrolable), no, not with chains:

4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.

5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,

7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God?

I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.

8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.

9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

Legion = 4200 to about 6000 men

Matt. 8:28,29

28 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.

29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?

Luke 8:26-30

26 And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.

27 And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.

28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.

29 (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)

30 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.

I think the Perilous times that Paul was talking about was not so much the natural things of mankind.Like! Being lover’s of our own-selves or covetous or proud or blasphemers. These have always been problems in mankind from the moment Adam fell into temptation in the garden.

This is the natural sinful state of man.

But Christ came to set us free from all of that. That we should have life and life more abundantly

But Paul here is writing to Timothy and the church in Ephesus. So the conditions we see here are not the conditions of merely the world. For they have always been in those conditions but we see the condition of the church in the last moments of time leading up to the rapture of god’s church.

The perilous times that Paul is speaking of: is the effect that these natural things have on the soul of man. It separates us from God presents!

Keep us from his eternal love,mercy and grace.

I see this as the last church age as Jesus spoke to the church in Rev. 3

Rev. 3:14-18

14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. If cold god can bring conviction to the soul and if Hot you are doing all you can to live a holy life for Jesus!

But he say’s they are neither cold nor hot!

16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Paul tells timothy of those days

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous ( more money), boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Isaiah 30:1–2

Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord,

That take counsel, but not of me;

And that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, (deception) the cover up secret sins,

That they may add sin to sin:

That walk to go down into Egypt,(Back to bondage)

And have not asked at my mouth;

To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, (Natural king)

And to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Form- (G) metamorphosis (transformation) changed (place of no return)

Denying- to know someone and refuse to recognize him( Jesus & H.G.)

Power of god- (G) Dunamis- Dynamite

Two ways too move your mountain A Shovel ( mans hand) or Dynamite (Gods hand)

Romans 1:28

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Zechariah 4:6

Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying,

Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit,

Saith the Lord of hosts.

6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

Romans 8:3–8

3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Zech.4:6

5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Keep your love on things above not on the things of the devil!