Do you believe we are living in the last days? Born 1895, Arthur E. Bloomfield once said of the future, ““The times will be intense. Everything will be at the maximum. The greatest advances in science. The greatest destructive power, in the hands of wicked people. The greatest war of all time is threatening to break out. The greatest activity in the forces of the heavens, especially in the evil spirit world. The most sensational and unexpected changes will come about. Everything will be expressed in extremes. Exaggeration will be almost impossible, and with it all will come the most marvelous and miraculous prophetic fulfillments.”
The Bible has a great deal to say about the end times, and I am firmly convinced we are living in them. Paul wrote that they would be dangerous and perilous (2 Timothy 3:1). I find it highly interesting how today’s American culture is rejecting law enforcement and embracing lawlessness. I find it so interesting because Paul describes the coming Antichrist as a man of lawlessness in 2 Thessalonians 2:3. For a man of lawlessness to rise to power, will there not have to be a lawless environment? Friends, we are watching this unfold in real time.
Another mark of the last days will be deception. A common thread through the teachings of Jesus, and later the New Testament, is the warning to not be deceived in the last days. Paul calls this deception a strong delusion. “Therefore, God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12).
Do these scriptures not accurately portray the spirit of this age? At the time of this writing, we have a Supreme Court Justice who cannot even define what a woman is. Those who worship science and climate change as their religion reject the natural biology between men and women. This is a day of great deception. So what do Christians do in these dark and difficult days? We encourage one another and hold fast to 1 Thessalonians 5:4-6, “But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.”
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