The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

2 Timothy 3:1-9, “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; 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.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.”

A second sign of the end times is surging apostasy; that is, a departure from the truth, both doctrinally and morally (1 Timothy 4:1-3; Jude 1:1-16).
Writing in 1964, the late Dr. John Walvoord, of Dallas Theological Seminary, said, “The Scriptures predict that there will be a growing apostasy or departure from the LORD as the church age progresses, and its increase can be understood as a general indication that the Rapture itself is near.”
In the period of Church History, known as the “Dark Ages,” men were ignorant of the truth; but never before had there an age when the truth was openly denied and repudiated. This current age is surely marching toward a climax with a monumental falling away, both doctrinally and morally.

Life in this current age might be viewed as somewhat easier, inasmuch as it has yet to completely fall away both doctrinally and morally. Yet, when doctrine begins to fade, the failure of morality is not far behind. And when morality begins to give way, doctrine easily accommodates it by being quickly shoved to the side.
Fifteen times in the New Testament, the word “alert” (???????? gregoreo: to be awake, to watch) shines before us as a beacon of warning. Thus, it behooves us to give heed.

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