2Pe 3:3 Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, 2Pe 3:4 and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation." ^Some say this refers to the times we currently live in...as if WE are in "the last days" being referred to in these verses...and yet, if they would but read 4 books later, they would find a reference to the fact that those "last days mockers" had arrived in the first century: Jud 1:12 These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; Jud 1:13 wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever. Jud 1:14 It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, Jud 1:15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him." Jud 1:16 These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage. Jud 1:17 But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, ****Jud 1:18 that they were saying to you, "In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts." **** Jud 1:19 These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.
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