Loss of Sound Doctrine
"But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully, knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for ... for murderers ... for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust." (1 Tim 1:8-11 NKJV)
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables." (2 Tim 4:3-4 NKJV)
Loss of Expediency of Jesus' Return
"...knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, 'Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.'" (2 Peter 3:3-4 NKJV)
"But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day [of the Lord] should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night." (1 Thes 5:4-7 NKJV)
Mass Apostasy
"Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron ..." (1 Tim 4:1-2 NKJV)
"Let no one in any way deceive you, for [that Day] will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction ..." (2 Thes 2:3 NASB)
Proud Self-Sufficiency
The Last Church of Revelation: "'I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. ... So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say, "I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing"—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked...'" (Rev 3:15-17 NKJV)
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