Watchfulness in the last days:

Introduction:

Today is not a day of teaching or preaching, it is a day of dialogue: we will discuss a scripture that the Holy Spirit placed in my heart. , and 4:1-5

This know also that in the last days perilous time shall come: If I will break this first statement down, it will have 3 simple parts to it:

This know: its a statement of certainty, that these things of surety will certainly happen; in order words the next few words that we will read will have a prophetic undertone to it.

In the Last days: we can say that there is a designated timeline for this prophecy”

Perilous time: This is the clear picture of what to expect - a time of trouble, violence, and distress.

The timeline for the prophecy is the last days: Then: “what is your understanding of the last days?

The baptism of the Holy Spirit , joel 2:28

Acts 2:17 KJV 1900

17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

The ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ signals the count down of last days

Hebrews 1:1–2 KJV 1900

1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

heb 1

— without any doubt we are in the last days: in matthew 24, Jesus gave at least 5 signs of the beginning of the last days,

Hebrews 1:1 KJV 1900

1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

Matthew 24:7–8 KJV 1900

7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

This prophecy predicted some points that worth taking note:

the breakdown of the home and the society:

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2 Timothy 3:1–4:5 KJV 1900

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. 10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, 11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. 12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; 15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. 1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

2 Tim 3:1-4