There will be terrible times in the last days.
People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power.
Have nothing to do with such people. -2Timothy3

Argue all you like that these are the last days. But frankly, last days have been with us for millennia since the first days and the signs are nothing new, just more evident and more laden with examples with the passage of time.

‘Having nothing to do with such people’ is a harder route to navigate as these people proliferate and insidiously take down what remaining truth and civility we have left.

The truth becomes increasingly difficult to discern but they are known by the fruit they produce.

Terrible times breed some terrible people, but terrible times also breed increasing discernment and resilience in those whose only end game is to follow Jesus.