“WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION” (2 Timothy 3; 3)
The Second Coming prophecies are graphic, some of them are ominous. There are two glorious Second Advent prophecies that are focussing on both, the Church of Jesus Christ and Israel, but the rest of the “forecasts” are warnings, for turbulent upheavals in the World of Christ-rejecting Nations “Warnings” that are Now today’s Realities!
One such Sign is that there would come a Time where universally the World would embrace or indulge in “unnatural” lifestyles and practices. Moral depravity would be the “norm” even exonerated and sanctioned by Law.
“Same-Sex Marriage” is now the norm for many; enshrined in Law with severity being meted out to any vocal, conscientious critics, this is another evidence of “unnatural affection”
We have a universal disregard for commitment in Marriage so “quickie” divorce is pursued usually because the “affection” for the one we vowed to be faithful until “death parts us” is of no consequence to us any more.
Abhorrent to God and embraced by Man we have a disregard for the “yet to be born” by abortion because we are “lovers of self rather than lovers of God”: Any intrusion or disruption to my life is to be eradicated is the underlying priority.
And what of the emergence of Heinous Crimes against the Innocents: Institutional Abuse within orphanages, schools, the “church”. We claim to be appalled and angered, but how deep is that anger when prison sentences are so lenient and brief: perhaps we have little appetite to condemn the perpetrators when we as a Nation loudly endorse Abortion, weakening our claims to protect the vulnerable.
When the prophet Isaiah foretold a “great darkness” would cover the earth in Isaiah 60 he foresaw that darkness being universal and in particular toward Israel.
We still shudder and quake at the horrors of the Holocaust where the depravities of racism sought to obliterate a People and peoples systematically and totally. RACISM is the despising of peoples we deem to be inferior, of little consequence so they are to be scorned, enslaved or destroyed.
“Without natural affection” … implies the submitting to “unnatural” affection.
We have through the indoctrination of media, the arts, and the love for the indulgence of self and sin yielding to the lower, darker appetites of our depraved nature’s, have become enslaved as Romans 6;16 warns against.
We who are biblically enlightened are to daily commit ourselves to the “narrow” way in spite of the tirade of scorn from our worldly-wise critics, who deem us to be, “narrow-minded”.
Whatever the temptations we have to “unnatural affection” whether morally, materially, legally or even, emotionally we are to focus with a “single eye” on righteousness (Romans 6;11-14)
We are to personally cultivate purity within our hearts and publicly declare the WARNINGS of a day when the Indulgent in “unnatural pursuits” will be enveloped in a Judgment of Eternal consequence.