An Invitation to the New Church #33
33. Title: THE CONSUMMATION OF THE AGE, AND THE ABOMINATION OF THE DESOLATION THEN.
There is to be adduced what the Lord says,
1. Concerning the "abomination of desolation;"
2. What He says [concerning vastation];
3. What the Lord says concerning the "affliction;"
4. That "no flesh can be saved;"
5. Concerning the "darkening of the sun and of the moon;"
6. The things which are declared in the (Apocalypse 1:18),
Behold, I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am He that liveth unto the ages of the ages (see, also, Revelation 2:8, 5:6).
And again, the Lord says:
The night cometh when no man can work (John 9:4);
In that night, there shall be two men in one bed (Luke 17:34).
Further, what the Lord says concerning Peter in John 21:18; also, what Paul says concerning the last times, in 1 Timothy 4:1-3; 2 Timothy 3:1-7; 4:3-4.
(What the Lord says in Matthew 24:27, that this should take place in the day of the Last Judgment, must be explained; also, what He says in Matthew 24:30-31. That this actually has thus taken place, see THE TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 791.)
2 Timothy 3:1-7
1
But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
2
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
4
traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
5
holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
6
For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
7
always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
