Sign 45 - Perilous Times of Wickedness Begins

Year:1965

Scriptures:

2 Timothy 3:1-7

1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

A great increase in the devils power over his own dominion occurred in the 1960’s. This was a transition period. This was a time when the wicked began to be more wicked, and the righteous began to be more righteous.

“It is important to understand what the Sixties turmoil was about, for the youth culture that became manifest then is the modern liberal culture of today.” (Robert H. Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah, [New York City: Regan Books, 1996] 17)

This was the transition period which gave the devil power over his own dominion (D&C 1:35). President Joseph Fielding Smith said in 1967, “Peace has been taken from the earth. The devil has power over his own dominion. The Spirit of the Lord has been withdrawn. Not because the Lord desires to withdraw that Spirit, but because of the wickedness of mankind, it becomes necessary that the Spirit of the Lord be withdrawn." (The Predicted Judgments, BYU Speeches of the Year, March 21, 1967 6) During the 60’s there were numerous talks by general authorities in general conference concerning the rapidly increasing wickedness that was overtaking the world. We know that the transition period to wickedness was during the sixties, and that it had begun by 1967. 1965 as an approximate date for the beginning of the fulfillment of the prophecy that perilous times of wickedness would come in the last days.

The underlying causes of this transition to wickedness include the following:

Killing for convenience: abortion, assisted suicide, and euthanasia

Radical feminism’s assault on American culture

Affirmative action

Multiculturalism

Moral relativism

Political correctness