Things to Come

Things are getting hard, aren’t they?   We’ve just come through a pandemic which has lacerated the Church.  So many churches didn’t make it through those hard times.  Many closed their doors.  Many are fractured.  And now…rumors are hitting us that more hard times may be ahead.  

II Timothy 3 talks about things to come in the last days.  The first verse of that chapter says this, “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come.”  Let’s talk about it.  I want to be prepared, don’t you?  God always warns his people to prepare them.  How has he warned us?

First of all, what are the “last days?”  The Blue Letter Bible says this:  Last=Eschatos.  Eschatos is the root of  the word eschatology (last word) which means a study of the last days.  So when II Timothy 3:1 talks about the last days, it’s talking about the days leading up to Jesus’ return. Those days will be perilous (hard to bear, hard to deal with, troublesome, savage, fierce). 

I believe we’ve entered those days.  Satan is trying to divide us, to disqualify us…to conquer God’s people.   He wants to win.  

We can’t effectively lead God’s people if we’re unprepared ourselves.  So let’s begin to look at…the things to come.