That's happening all over the world, and it's just another sign of the season. Nations are now looking to start to build their own identity, have their own culture, their own language, and start to establish themselves. It's a messy thing, very messy. It’s been a reaction to colonialism, a reaction to all kinds of things, and people are trying to find their identity, and stand up. It's a global phenomenon.
9) 2 Timothy 3:1-3 – “There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good...”
In the last days, perilous, or incredibly dangerous times will come; and then he lists a whole lot of signs. This is what the cultural condition will be, and he says it's perilous. It's fierce. It's difficult, hard to handle; drains away your energy. This is what will be the widespread cultural condition…
Narcissistic people, self-obsessed people. People will be lovers of themselves, self-centred - it's all about me. Lovers of money - greed will take over, exploitation of people. There will be boasters - empty pretenders, proud, appearing better than others, abusive, disobedient to parents; unthankful or ungrateful (meaning entitled). Abusive. Disobedient to parents; unthankful, unholy, unloving.
That word ‘unloving’ means literally, to be devoid of natural family bonds. No natural family love, families full of a lack of love for one another. They will be unforgiving. They will be truce-breakers; unwilling to enter into covenant, or literally, unwilling to commit into covenantal relationship (like marriage).
They will be unforgiving. They will be slanderous. They gossip; no self-control; savage, cruel; despisers of good, and despisers of those that are good; traitors, or treacherous - betraying one another; headstrong or rash; arrogant; lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God, having (in the religious area), a form of godliness, but resisting, or denying the power. A church which is lukewarm - without the power of God but proclaiming itself to be the true church. So that's one of the signs – do you recognise any of it?
10) Cosmic upheaval, and global fear.
Luke 21:25 – “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.”
There will be signs in the heavens, and signs in the sun, moon and stars. The earth in distress of the nations, perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring. Men's hearts failing them for fear, and the expectation of things coming on the earth, for there will be a shaking of the powers of heaven. Then they will see the Son of Man coming in glory. Across the globe, there will be widespread fear, because of global catastrophe - things that are happening, possibly a reaction to a shift, where the devil is cast out of the realm of the second heaven, and then you start to see widespread demonic manifestations in the earth, including disruption of natural conditions.
I don't think we've seen all this yet. It will be global fear, because it's so unpredictable. Have a look what the movies are all doing - the earth coming through catastrophe, and then the Rock comes and saves them… saves Los Angeles… saves the people! They've got all sorts of those stories - near misses with asteroids… earthquakes… tidal waves. They carry a message of global catastrophe, widespread fear and chaos - everything breaking down.
Hollywood’s gift is to be creative, but it's been distorted, so it's often polluted; but notice the interest in superheroes. Superheroes have become the latest big thing – love or hate them! It's just a matter of personal opinion, but I think that it's all a signal for what God is planning to do - when the Sons of God manifest in the earth. Ooh, how exciting!
11) Daniel 12:4 – “But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to increase knowledge."