The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

2 Timothy 3:1-7, “But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to
parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; and avoid such men as
these.
6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed
down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

I was 18 years of age before I heard of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Whether my pastors did not
understand the teaching or simply did not believe it, I am not certain. I myself had been preaching for a year or more before I ever heard or read of the teaching. Yet, the LORD had scheduled me to learn it from the girl I later married. Her pastor had taught her; she, then taught me; and I have been learning and teaching the Second
Coming of Christ ever since.

The Apostle Paul is exceedingly clear as he passes this doctrine to young Timothy. At the same time, it is
reserved in Scripture for us. The email and text messages I receive from friends are replete with notations
about our living in “difficult times” (a violent, hard-to-bear era). Paul emphasizes the last days as “unloving,” meaning “without natural affection”; “irreconcilable,” not accepting a truce; “malicious gossips,” slanderous;
“treacherous,” betrayers, traitors; “various impulses,” passionate longings, lust; and “always learning and
never able to come to the the knowledge of the truth”; meaning, educated, but never grasping true knowledge.

Does that not cover just about everything in our era of life? I think it does! Nevertheless, these are attitudes that
ought never to captivate the mind or life of a true believer. It is indeed time for us to Wake Up! Examine your life!
Do you truly know Jesus Christ? Is He your Savior and LORD? If He is not, you need to trust Him today. Pray
and acknowledge your sins to Him. Ask His forgiveness. Then, trust and believe that He has forgiven you and
accepted you as His own. Then pray for others who do not know Him, that they might be saved before it is too
late! You can come to the “knowledge of the truth.” Get into the Bible and bathe in God’s Eternal Truths.

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom