2 Timothy 3 1:-9

Rachel Workman: 3 You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times. 2 For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. 3 They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good. 4 They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God. 5 They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that!

6 They are the kind who work their way into people’s homes and win the confidence of[a] vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires. 7 (Such women are forever following new teachings, but they are never able to understand the truth.) 8 These teachers oppose the truth just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses. They have depraved minds and a counterfeit faith. 9 But they won’t get away with this for long. Someday everyone will recognize what fools they are, just as with Jannes and Jambres.

This all sounds very familiar. However, I can say that today's times are not much different than times when this was written. I dislike verse 5. People who act religious and are not cause the fall of many people.

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John Burnett:  3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. ² For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, ^[a]haters of good, ⁴ treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, ⁵ holding to a form of ^[b]godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. ⁶ For among them are those who ^[c]enter into households and captivate ^[d]weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, ⁷ always learning and never able to come to the ^[e]knowledge of the truth. ⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. ⁹ But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as ^[f]Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.  This passage is like a last days bright neon sign.  1-5 describe many of the men on the planet but this passage is not about ordinary men.  This passage is describing Pastor’s that Timothy and we should avoid.  It should be of great comfort and great sadness when we turn on God TV or Daystar.  Comfort because we know that we are in the last days and sadness because so many are being led astray.

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Allen Michaels:  3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. As Christians in this country it’s difficult to understand how bad our lives are going to be. Here in America we are not persecuted for our religious beliefs so we have never had to worry about dying in the name of Christ. To get an idea of what we WILL face just go to Google and search “ISIS executions.” It doesn’t stop with adults either. Our children will die as well if they deny Christ. We will also be put into positions of watching loved ones die if we refuse to deny Christ. There are hundreds of videos of dead children and children being executed as a result of being Christian, and it’s all in the name of Islam. This is all coming true and we are all going to eventually be part of it. We will soon understand what “terrible times” really means. Paul writes this not to frighten us but to warn us. He wants to prepare us for what is to come.  ² People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, ⁴ treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— ⁵ having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. We can see them all already in the world. But they will spread wider and get far worse in the last days.

⁶ They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, ⁷ always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. ⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. There was a tradition that these two men, Jannes and Jambres, did magic. They were evil men, who were against the truth of God. They opposed Moses and Aaron whom God had sent to free the *Jews from Egypt. Paul says that the false teachers are like those evil men. What they were doing was not the same. But like those men, these are enemies of the truth. They are working against God.

They have believed a lie and there is no truth with them. The evil that they have accepted has ruined them. Their minds have become wicked. They can no longer know what is true or receive it. They have denied the truth of God. ⁹ But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone. These false teachers may seem to succeed. But that success will not last long. The truth will win in the end.