It is important for you to understand what will happen in the last days. People will laugh \{at you\}. Those people will live following the evil things they want to do.
“You are foolish people. How long will you continue doing foolish things? How long will you make fun of wisdom? How long will you continue to hate knowledge?
People who make fun of God might look for wisdom, but they will never find it. \{People who believe God\} are truly wise. Knowledge comes easy to them.
Those people say, “We wish God would hurry and do the things he plans to do. Then we would know what will happen. We wish the Lord’s plan would happen soon. Then we would know what his plan is.”
On Our King’s Day,\par \{they make the fire hotter\}\par \{they give their drinking parties.\}\par The leaders become sick from the heat of wine.\par So the kings join hands with people\par that laugh at God.\par
There is a judge for the person that refuses to believe in me and does not accept what I say. The message I have taught will judge that person on the last day.
But we have turned away from secret and shameful ways. We don’t use trickery, and we don’t change the teaching of God. No! We teach the truth plainly. This is how we show people who we are. And this is how they can know in their hearts what kind of people we are before God.
And now in these last days God has spoken to us again. God has spoken to us through his Son. God made the whole world through his Son. And God has chosen his Son to have all things.
Most important, you must understand this: No prophecy {\cf2\super [3]} in the Scriptures {\cf2\super [4]} ever comes from a person’s own interpretation.
That punishment is for those people who live by doing the bad things their sinful selves want, and it is for people who hate the Lord’s authority (power).
My dear children, the end is near! You have heard that the Enemy of Christ {\cf2\super [5]} is coming. And now many enemies of Christ are already here. So we know that the end is near.