People of the World where are you going? Turn back to God! Back to your faithful principles!
JUDGMENT ON FALSE TEACHERS
. Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I was compelled to write to you [urgently] appealing that you fight strenuously for [the defense of] the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints [the faith that is the sum of Christian belief that was given verbally to believers].
WARNING CONCERNING THE ANTICHRISTS
Children, it is the last hour [the end of this age]; and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming [the one who will oppose Christ and attempt to replace Him], even now many antichrists (false teachers) have appeared, which confirms our belief that it is the last hour.
FALSE PROPHETS AND TEACHERS
Already the early Church was threatened with destructive heresies introduced by men who desired only their self-aggrandizement.
OUTLINE OF THE FIRST EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY
The Epistle was designed to instruct him how to deal with false teachers, how to conduct public worship, and to urge him to cultivate all those qualities which would better equip him for the discharge of his important duties.
DANGER FROM A PERVERTED GOSPEL
The age which preceded the fall of Jerusalem was notoriously corrupt. Speaking of the Jews at that time, Josephus says that they exceeded Sodom.