"Reckless, Swollen With Conceit, Lovers of Pleasure..."

I just posted this verse in another thread. This is from 2 Timothy 3 and is about the Last Days. Has this ever been more true that for the Selfie Generation, in 2018?

God help us all.

"But understand this: that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeaseable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people."--2 Timothy 3:1-5
Keep in mind the letter to Timothy was written two thousand years ago by someone who believed he was living in the last days.
Amazing how many people dismiss audience relevance.

The passage in the OP is future tense, though Paul's missives are almost entirely eschatological. He echoes the imminence of the end that Jesus warned of.

And of course, some time after writing to Timothy, Paul actually did witness the end of the age; that is, if he had not died until the year 67 and after Rome had surrounded Jerusalem with her armies, as Jesus foretold.
 

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