There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power.

Have nothing to do with such people. -2Timothy3

Argue all you like that these are the last days. Frankly, last days have been with us for millennia and these signs are nothing new, just more evident and more laden with examples with the passage of time.

‘Having nothing to do with such people’ is a much harder route to navigate as these people proliferate and meticulously take down what remaining truth and civility we have left.

Insidious and deceptive, the truth becomes increasingly difficult to discern until they can only be known by the fruit they produce.

Terrible times breed terrible people, but terrible times also breed discernment and resilience in those whose only end game is to follow Jesus.