The Rise of Unbelief!

The Apostle Peter issued similar prophetic warnings, “there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies… and many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed” (2 Peter 2:1–2). Peter predicted that “false teachers” [teachers of falsehoods] would “speak evil of [scoff and sneer at] the things they do not understand,” and they would “speak great swelling works of emptiness [arrogant nonsense] as they appeal to the sensual desires of people (2 Peter 2:12, 18). Peter clearly placed these warnings in an end-time context, “knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts” (2 Peter 3:3). Jude, the brother of Jesus wrote, “remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; how they told you that there would be mockers [scoffers] in the end-time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts (Jude 17–18).

The Expositor’s Bible Commentary states that Peter is predicting, “the appearance of scoffers in the last days, who deny biblical truths and live in an ungodly way… who deny a future eschatology [an end-time fulfillment of these prophecies],” and “Mocking the faith of Christians, they support their own position” by ignoring events have any prophetic significance (see comments on 2 Peter 3:3–4, pp. 284–285). However, the remarkable changes that have occurred in recent decades and are occurring today are significant and definitely in line with numerous end-time prophecies recorded in the New Testament.

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