#361: Last Days | Perilous Times

With the rapid deterioration of world conditions, Voices from the Dust will feature, each Sunday, a prophetic voice concerning the last days. As you read, count the ways the last days' prophecies are manifesting in daily news and in the many exposés of things once hidden! [Reviving this Voices From the Dust blog begins (propitiously) on this May Day | Mayday! of 2022.]

[Most weekly posts will be taken from Lutes edition of Joseph Smith Translation* showing deletions (strikethroughs) and corrections (bold)].

JST New Testament | 2 Timothy 3: 1-17

Books of Timothy
are credited to Paul, but
his authorship is disputed
by some scholars

1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13 But For evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 And all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

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*Lutes, Kenneth and Lyndell. Joseph Smith Translation (p. 2642; New Testament | 2 Timothy 3:1-17). Lutes Publishing. Kindle Edition.

Paul the Apostle, ... commonly known as Saint Paul and also known by his Hebrew name Saul of Tarsus,[note 2][6] was a Christian apostle (although not one of the Twelve Apostles) who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world.[7] Generally regarded as one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age,[6][8] he founded several Christian communities in Asia Minor and Europe from the mid-30s to the mid-50s AD.[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle

Chuck Swindoll: “Paul wrote 2 Timothy from a dark and damp Roman prison cell, just before his death in AD 67. The Roman emperor Nero had been slowly descending into madness since his ascent to the throne in AD 54, a process exacerbated by the great fire of Rome in AD 64 that burned half the city. With the residents of Rome in an uproar, Christians became a convenient target for Nero, who used believers as scapegoats for his city’s own lack of preparedness. Paul was one of those caught up in this persecution and was beheaded by Roman officials soon after writing this letter.” | https://www.insight.org/resources/bible/the-pauline-epistles/second-timothy