These are the Last Days

Sex club orgies for the rich and godless

How bad will the world become in the end times directly preceding the return of Jesus Christ? According to the apostle Paul, it will become this bad:

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the 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. (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

But why? What's the cause of such moral decadence? The world's rejection of God and His transcendent moral laws. Again, Paul provides a brilliant explanation:

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. (Romans 1:21-25)

According to Paul, the world's rejection of God inevitably leads its rebels down a dark path to sexual immorality and perversion:

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. (Romans 1:26-27)

And Paul described what becomes of godless rebels:

Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. (Romans 1:28-32)

Skeptics will argue that such depravity has existed in every generation since the beginning of time. And they're correct. But there have been times when the world has become exceedingly wicked. And God has raised his hand against that wickedness. He judged the ancient world of Noah with a global flood that destroyed all life except Noah, his family and two members of every animal and bird group. (Genesis 6)

The Lord destroyed the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by fire after the residents of those towns refused to repent of their sexual immorality. And he's going to destroy the world yet again in the future--this time by fire--directly preceding the return of Jesus Christ. Paul wrote:

Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. (1 Thessalonians 5:1-3)

Christ likened the days directly preceding His return to the ancient days of Noah. (Matthew 24:36-41) The world was monstrously wicked in those ancient days. And it's approaching that level of evil again in these last days.

To illustrate that point, the online version of the Independent, a UK tabloid, recently published an article detailing the rising popularity of sex parties (orgies) among godless hipsters in the UK. Here's a sample of that article:

Guests wander the luxury Mayfair apartment in formal attire, chit-chatting, lounging on sofas and sipping champagne. At midnight a bell is rung and everyone gets naked. Around half an hour later, after the initial awkwardness has worn off, the flat is a sea of writhing bodies...If you're going to have sex with a total stranger, you're probably going to want them to be attractive, so Heaven Circle (sex club) vets its guests, even operating a tier system with extra special parties for the sexual elite. A "Sex Olympics" is currently being planned, where the best performers from parties around the world will come together for a sort of fantasy team orgy. The mix at the parties tends to be mostly swinging couples, with a few single men and women thrown in too.  

Sexual immorality is a barometer of evil. When it increases exponentially in the world, then judgment is near. No generation that's embraced sexual sin has managed to escape God's judgment. And this one won't either.