2 Timothy 3: 1-7 Prophecy

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prophecy is constantly explaining how wicked the world is becoming, found in, 2 Timothy 3:1-7, “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! 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth”. Also …show more content…
For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with …show more content…
“But after these things he must be released for a little while.” (NKJV). When he is turned loose, he will be able to fool the nations all over the world again. Why is he being allowed to come out of his prison? We know that the “dead in Christ rose first”, and in verse 5 of Revelation 20, it says that the rest of those who are dead will not be able to rise again until after the 1000 years were completed, so really it doesn’t seem like Satan would have anyone here to tempt or deceive. In Revelation 20:7-8, it says, “7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.”

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