After describing in graphic detail how society will fall apart in the end times, Paul adds that the basic reason will be due to people “holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power” (2 Timothy 3:5). One of those clues can be found in 2 Timothy 4:3-4 which says that “the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths.”Īnother clue is located in Paul’s famous prophecy about end time society, the one in 2 Timothy 3. Paul supplies us with some strong clues as to why the end times Church will be weak, vacillating, and full of apostasy. The Lord is so dissatisfied with this church that He declares, “Because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth” (Revelation 3:16). Jesus also pictures it as a worldly church enamored with its wealth (Revelation 3:17). In short, it is a church that is apathetic. It is pictured as a church that is neither hot (healing) nor cold (refreshing), but rather is lukewarm or tepid (Revelation 3:15-16).

The last of the churches mentioned, the one that represents the Church of the end times, is the church at Laodicea. Among other things, these letters present a panoramic prophetic survey of the Church in history. In the book of Revelation, chapters 2 and 3, the Apostle John records seven letters of Jesus to seven churches in the area of modern day Turkey.

Jesus prophesied that “many will fall away” and “most people’s love will grow cold” (Matthew 24:10, 12). Paul said that the Antichrist will not be revealed until “the apostasy comes first” (2 Thessalonians 2:3). The Bible clearly prophesies that the Church of the end times will be characterized by apostasy. David Reagan’s new book, Living for Christ in the End Times.) (Note: This article is a highly abridged version of a chapter from Dr.

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