When citing Scriptures that describe what people are like in the end time, pastors often quote 2 Timothy: “For people will be Lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power.” They also cite Matthew 24: “For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.”

Certainly these are relevant, but there are other Scriptures just as pertinent to our understanding of the current zeitgeist which are often overlooked.

One of them is 2 Peter 2, a sort of mirror image of 2 Timothy. Peter describes people in the end time as being like “irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant.” This is an even lower state of mind than being driven by the ego, as narcissists are. End time people are driven by the id, the basic instincts…desire for food, sex, and the shallow pleasures of entertainment — the lusts of the flesh, in other words. We can see that most advertisements appeal to these base desires.