2017 saw a marked rise in another hallmark of the last days. 2 Timothy 3 says, “In the last days… men will be… brutal.”
Radical Islamic terrorists continued to brutalize the world with hundreds of terror attacks. But in October, here in America, Stephen Paddock killed 58 and wounded 546 when he shot up a Las Vegas music festival. The next month, Devin Patrick Kelley walked into the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, and killed 26 and wounded 20.
In 2017, many people considered it entertaining to present fantasies of President Trump’s assassination. Even his beheading. It was a year in which human beings became increasingly — and overtly — brutal.