Bible Discussion Thread

It should be understood by all and sundry that this was Paul's admonition to Timothy, he was trying to prepare the understanding of Timothy towards the event that must surely come to pass. And he tends to describe it as a perilous time which means a dangerous time. Here he talked about lovers of themselves than lovers of God. This simply means in such time the love of many will be selfish and their obedience to God will be narrow and shallow because one cannot obey whom he does not love. He went as far as making the immoral and promiscuous engagement and commitment of many shall abound. Then after that phase, he then talked about those who will really want to serve God as that they will suffer persecutions and tribulation.