Last Days Difficulties 2
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But know this: Hard times will come in the last days.
How do we understand this list? Why were these items included (specifically) and others not (or under a more broad category)?
These questions are important since we are told to “avoid these people” (v. 5).
This list closely mirrors Romans 1.29-32.
Romans 1:29–32 “They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, senseless, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful. Although they know God’s just sentence—that those who practice such things deserve to die—they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.”
This context = “Throughout Time.”
Soooo, why “Know this: Hard times will come in the last days.”
[[How do Romans 1 & 2 Timothy 3 compare/contrast??]]
Romans 1…more skewed (exclusively) toward the external culture
2 Timothy 3…has an intentionally forward (future) focus
Rom/2 Tim…have different vices listed with 3 similarities
2 Timothy 3…very intentionally includes these vices present within churches (communities of faith)
The Difficult Times List:
The Difficult Times List:
Lovers of Self [philautos: phileo + autos = Self-Lovers; Selfish]
Lovers of Money [philargyros: phileo + argyros = Silver-Lovers; Avaricious]
Boastful [alazones (alazon): Braggarts; ‘One whose mouth is too big for his body’] ((Rom 1.30))
"Empty Pretender”; “Swaggerers”; “Snake Oil Salesman”
Proud [hyperephanos: Haughty; Arrogant (Contemptuous)] ((Rom 1.30))
“Stuck Up”; “Nose in the Air”;
Demeaning [blasphemos: Insulting; blasphemous]
"Stupid, Injurious Speech”; “Reviler”; “Abuser”; “Speak Evil of Another”
Disobedient to Parents ((Rom 1.30))
Ungrateful
Unholy
Unloving
Irreconcilable
Slanderers
Without Self-Control
Brutal
Without Love for What is Good
Traitors
Reckless
Conceited
Lovers of Pleasure Rather than Lovers of God
Holding to the Form of Godliness but Denying Its Power