Perilous Times are Here: Fierce People

Theology and Politics from a Conservative, Biblical Perspective

Continuing with our series on 2 Timothy 3:1-5, we’re going to move into verse 3 in this article.

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. (KJV)

Are we seeing this in society today? Absolutely, one hundred percent.

Before we go any further, let’s note that this entire section of Scripture (even including up to verse 7), really speaks to the evidence of absolute faithlessness that permeates our society today. This is not simply in America, but is all over the world. Faithlessness (in God and His truth), is the hallmark of global society today.

I’m reminded of just how faithless people were in Israel time and time again. If we simply take a few chapters of Jeremiah chapters 35, 36, 37, we see faithlessness on display. There, the prophet Jeremiah was put in a dungeon by King Zedekiah. Why? The king only wanted to hear “good” things. It’s really that simple.

We know that severely corrupt people often gain control of government reins. Because of this, their corruption and internal evil leads them to begin to limit freedoms in any society. This limiting often leads to a form of “suffocation” that is generally placed over the entire society. This is self-preservation for the leaders because they know if they do not control society, they will be controlled and ousted (or worse).

California has a statewide mask mandate. When we were there a few weeks ago, we avoided wearing masks as much as possible. I was amazed to see people outside at Lake Huntington wearing masks! The fear, brainwashing and propaganda has done its work.

Recently, I read that several people who refused to wear masks in California while at Mother’s Market & Grocery store in Costa Mesa, CA, were locked in the store by the manager, who also called the police. The police came and arrested and fined the people inside the store. Why didn’t the manager just ask them to leave? Why did he feel the need to literally and illegally detain them? Moreover, why wasn’t the store manager cited for such action?

What the manager did was borne of a desire to please the “masters” or “overlords” of California so that it will be well with them. He wanted to be seen as a dutiful person and hopefully heralded as a hero.

My wife and I went to a big box hardware store yesterday with our dog and without masks, as is usual for us. The store “requests” that you wear a mask and since our state does not have a statewide mask mandate, it would be difficult for them to enforce it. At any rate, I noticed a few people in the store not wearing masks. As we were in an aisle looking for an extension cord, a man came into the aisle with his mask on. He noticed us without masks and removed his. People are slowly waking up to the reality that they have been conned but too many are still asleep, unwilling or unable to see the problems associated with wearing masks for long periods of time.

Not only does wearing a mask keep herd immunity from developing and doing its job, but wearing masks can create a plethora of problems as I’ve noted here before, quoting numerous medical professionals. People tend to follow whatever peer pressure has dictated. People who think critically through these problems tend to make their own decisions and are often ridiculed or vilified because of it.

Jeremiah, the prophet, was a human being who even doubted God’s Word at times. Yet, he was faithful in doing all that God asked him to do. It caused a great deal of angst between family members and friends. He was vilified, beaten and some wanted him to die because he dared to speak what they believed was against Jerusalem. They failed to acknowledge what their lives and evil had brought Jerusalem and Israel to the point of God needing to judge it. God could not relent and had to carry through with the warnings of judgment. Later, God promised to restore Jerusalem and Israel (ultimately, in the coming Millennial Kingdom ruled over by the physical Presence of Jesus Himself after His second coming).

In the meantime, we have this ever widening description by the apostle Paul in his second letter to Timothy about how bad things will become in the “last days,” the days in which we are living.

In verse 3, Paul starts out by stating that people of this particular time in history will have “unnatural affection.” The meaning is probably obvious to most. It simply means having abnormal relations. In its final and lowest form, this is referencing homosexuality as Paul discussed in Romans 1, one of the best chapters in the Bible on how society sinks downward and ultimately comes to accepting homosexuality as “normal.” This is not that God hates homosexuals because He does NOT. What He hates is the sin of homosexuality because it goes against His natural, created order. It seems obvious doesn’t it? If God had created two men or two women, there would have been no procreation. Clearly, Satan is the creator of this “altered” order.

Being a “trucebreaker” or “false accuser” derives from the same thing. Both indicate a willingness and even obsessiveness to lie and break agreements, usually all for personal gain. It was the same story in the Bible that God highlights so often. Israel was supposed to be the light on the hill, shining truth into the world. Instead, they often became part of the same problem hosted by the world and in many cases, became even worse than the world.

For instance, Jews were not supposed to loan money to other Jews at interest. They could do this to non-Jews, but not to other Jews. But it quickly became routine that Jews would loan money to other Jews at very high interest rates, termed “usury.” God had a problem with that and rightly so. He allowed it to continue not because He turned a blind eye to that evil, but because He wanted to give Israelites as much times as needed to turn to Him in repentance and do what was right. They never did so eventually, God had to deal with it and did. This is merely one example.

Another example is every seven years, Jews were supposed to release any Jewish servants they had (normally, because a Jew could not pay a debt, so they had to work it off). At the end of seven years, they were supposed to be cut loose, period. However, it became the practice to NOT release any servants but to simply keep them working. This was against the gracious system God had set up.

On one occasion in Jeremiah, God reminds the Israelites through Jeremiah that they came together, released their servants and made a great show of doing what God wanted them to do. Then, they immediately turned around and took those same servants they had just released and enslaved them again! You can read about it in Jeremiah 34, starting with verse 8. The Israelites were legalists in the sense that they did what God wanted but with every intention of going back to what they had before. They had become trucebreakers.

To be “incontinent” means unable to keep one’s self in check. This usually happens to people who are guided by their emotions. Those people do not think clearly because their emotions are too loud. In essence, those people are without control. Emotions control them and we see this a great deal in society today. People say and do the most outlandish things because instead of relying on critical thinking skills (if they have any), they simply allow themselves to be guided by whatever emotions come to the fore. It makes for a very volatile society. This was not the way it was years ago. You rarely heard swearing in public, for instance. You rarely saw people get angry beyond control.

Now, decades later, we have people who use the most foul language imagined and it is accepted as “normal.” In fact, the more bereft people are, the more they are praised.

“Fierce” perfectly describes what we are seeing in society today. BLM, AntiFa and other Marxist groups are leading the charge to intimidate and beat senseless those who stand in their way. Recently, at a Sturgis motorcycle gathering, AntiFa decided to try to infiltrate. It was a small group of AntiFa protesters and they were surrounded by police officers for their protection because they were severely outnumbered. At one point, an alleged AntiFa leader started to go berserk, railing against those at the Sturgis event. Because he started to get violent, the police took him down and arrested him. I’m under the impression the leader did that because he knew police would take him out of there and not allow anyone at Sturgis to get to him. That’s my opinion. But the reality is that there are many videos uploaded by citizen journalists who are confronting, beating and robbing innocent people in areas like Portland and Seattle.

The fierceness of their demeanor and attacks on innocent people speaks to the fact that they are literally the fulfillment of Paul’s words to Timothy. These fierce individuals are literally haters of good and those who attempt to do good.

I read one article showing a group of AntiFa/BLM rioters surrounding a man who had tried to rescue a (transgender) woman from being beaten. The AntiFa/BLM people turned on him, chased him to his truck and as he tried to get away, crashed his truck into a tree. The crowd got him out of his truck, forced him to sit in the street as they searched and robbed him. At this point and guy identified as Keese Love came up and kicked him viciously in the head putting him unconscious. The group then robbed his truck.

This kind of fierceness and hatred of good is symptomatic of satanic evil. That is the origin of it and as we see the trouble that is being promoted all over society today throughout the world, we know that Satan is behind it. Since people, by and large, are not interested in repenting and turning to God, all of this will lead to its likely conclusion: judgment by God. Without global repentance, there is no other option, I’m sorry to say.

Society today is being overcome by brutish behavior. Don’t kid yourselves into thinking that there is no plan connected to it. The goal is to overcome and destroy, in order to make way for the final empire of Daniel 2. What these brutes do not realize of course, is that they will be the first ones to suffer under the NWO so that there will be no chance of them rising up against that order.

Theology and Politics from a Conservative, Biblical Perspective