But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

We are in these times about 1930 years after it was written by Paul to Timothy.

This is unquestionably a treacherous time!

2 Tim 3

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,