2 Timothy 3:1-5 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

These days, just when you think it can’t get any worse, someone in society does something so evil it shocks you. Your mind can’t process the evil that abounds among us, within us. Your mind can’t understand the ability to commit seemingly senseless acts of murder, taking another life, holding no value on life whatsoever. Yet we kill thousands of unborn children each day, but try to push those stories underground, for they are committed under the ruse of choice, and dare I say free will. Can we here in a land of freedom begin to grasp we may be suffering the judgement of God as he loosens Satan’s leash upon us? Can we begin to grasp we must be judged for our immoral behavior and blasphemies upon God’s Law when we go directly against God’s design of marriage? Can we begin to understand that Satan is peaking, before his ultimate fall?

I cannot stress the urgency of your faith, or lack of it, in the days in which we live. I cannot stress that I feel we are entering the last days before Christ’s return. I feel this Christian persecution is going to continue to rise, evil will continue to shock, and God is using all of this to show you the need for him. He is using Satan’s tactics against Satan, and this evil that shocks shows us our need for a Savior from it. You must understand that man is evil at heart; we were forever lost in sin through the Fall of Man as descendants of Adam in the Garden of Eden. Everyone is lost, doomed to hell, until they hear their need for the Gospel, and simply repent and believe. Today is the day to live your life for the next one. Today may be your last day; it may be your last day to share with someone you love the Gospel. Today may be your last day to make an eternal difference in someone’s life.

Matthew 24:31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 32 “Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near–at the doors! 34 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away. 36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. 37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.

Do not be shocked at the evil that abounds. Do recognize the signs in the evil of your need for a Savior, and the call to live your life as a disciple of his, shedding his light on a very dark world.