{"id":67374,"date":"2024-04-08T09:28:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T14:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=67374"},"modified":"2024-04-08T09:29:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T14:29:52","slug":"perilous-times-in-the-last-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/perilous-times-in-the-last-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Perilous Times in the Last Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Text: II Timothy 3<\/h2>\n\t\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Perilous-Times-in-the-Last-Days.mp3\" \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-67374-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Perilous-Times-in-the-Last-Days.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Perilous-Times-in-the-Last-Days.mp3\">https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Perilous-Times-in-the-Last-Days.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\t<p>by Don Bunting<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/one-or-two-chapter-lessons\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOne (or Two) Chapter Lessons\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text: II Timothy 3 by Don Bunting One (or Two) Chapter Lessons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[1437,536,451,987],"class_list":["post-67374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","tag-ii-timothy","tag-preaching","tag-teaching","tag-wickedness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":67275,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/one-or-two-chapter-lessons\/","url_meta":{"origin":67374,"position":0},"title":"One (or Two) Chapter Lessons","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 31, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"by Don Bunting April 7-10, 2024 Simple topics presented in a single context Reasons to Believe in Jesus (Matthew 1-2) What Christianity Is All About (Ephesians 1) Perilous Times in the Last Days (II Timothy 3) Two Reasons to Follow Jesus (Hebrews 1-2) Understanding Bible Faith (Hebrews 11) God's People\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Audio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32732,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/are-we-approaching-the-end-times\/","url_meta":{"origin":67374,"position":1},"title":"Are we approaching the end times?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: II Tim 3:1-4; Matthew 24:12; I Corinthians 7:26-27. 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