- False Bible teachers would be money hungry. They would be smooth talkers, have many followers, and slur the Christian faith (2 Peter 2:1-3)
This was already happening in the times of the Acts of the Apostles.
- Homosexuality would be increasingly evident at the end of the age (2 Timothy 3:3)
Here’s 2 Tim 3:3 – “callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good”. I’m not seeing the assertion you’re making here.
- Earthquakes would be in diverse places (Matthew 24:7)
- Stress would be part of living (2 Timothy 3:1)
- Many wars would erupt (Matthew 24:6)
- Deadly diseases would be prevalent (Matthew 24:7).
- There would be an increase in famines (Matthew 24:7)
- The possession of Jerusalem would be at the center of international turmoil (Zechariah 12:3)
- There would be a cry for peace (1 Thessalonians 5:3)
- There would be hypocrites within the Church (Matthew 13:25-30)
- There would be an increase of religious cults/false teachers (Matthew 24:11 & 24)
- The future would seem fearful to many (Luke 21:26)
- Humanity would become materialistic (2 Timothy 3:4)
- Jesus said Christians would be hated “for His name’s sake” (Matthew 24:9)
25: Youth would become rebellious.
These have existed since before the time of Jesus, and continue to exist to today. Their presence is not a sign that the end is here.
- People would forsake the Ten Commandments as a moral code, committing adultery, stealing, lying, and killing (Matthew 24:12)
Umm… you
have read Paul’s epistles, haven’t you? These are precisely the things that he was telling Christians to stop doing … in the 1st century AD!
- Men would substitute fantasy in place of Christian truth (2 Timothy 4:4). This is so evident at Christmas when the birth of the Savior is lost behind the myth of Santa Claus.
Here’s the actual Scripture passage (“For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths.”)
Two thoughts: First, this isn’t an end-times prophecy; this is Paul’s pastoral message to Timothy. Paul is talking to Timothy about the things that Timothy will experience in the course of his (Timothy’s) pastoral ministry.
Second, the ‘myths’ here aren’t garden-variety cultural fables; Paul is warning Timothy that people will forsake the truth of Christ for man-made
religious myths. Again, this is something that’s been going on since the dawn of time.
- The fact that God once flooded the earth (the Noahic flood) would be denied (2 Peter 3:5-6). There is a mass of fossil evidence to prove this fact, yet it is flatly ignored by the scientific world because of its uncanny implication.
Wow, is this a mis-reading of that passage of Scripture! This isn’t about a denial of the flood narrative – this is saying, “those who deny that Christ will return are forgetting that God destroyed the world once, and will do it again at the end of time!”
- The institution of marriage would be forsaken by many (1 Timothy 4:3)
- Increase in vegetarianism would increase (1 Timothy 4:3-4)
No. Whoever is feeding you these things really doesn’t understand Scripture well.
There will be sects that
forbid marriage to their adherents and who require them to maintain a strict dietary code.
- Knowledge would increase (Daniel 12:4)
- There would be many involved in travel (Daniel 12:4)
Really poor exegesis here. Here’s what Daniel 12:4
really says: “As for you, Daniel, keep secret the message and seal the book until the end time; many shall wander aimlessly and evil shall increase.” This is not an indication that “knowledge will increase” (whatever
that’s supposed to mean!).
“Many involved in travel”? Really?
I would recommend, mikekle, that you stick to good solid Catholic sources.
