1. INSTRUMENT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

In the last days scoffers will come
Following their own evil desires

Listening to what their itching ears
Want to hear
Turning their ears away
From the truth

In the last days there will be terrible times
People will be lovers of themselves, not lovers of the good

Swayed by all kinds of
Evil desires
Always learning but never able to
Acknowledge the truth

Be on your guard
And do not fall
Be prepared
All the time
Be an instrument
Of righteousness

Men of depraved minds
Acting for the sake of dishonest gain

Deceivers who must be
Silenced
Who have wandered away
From the truth

Be on your guard
And do not fall
Be prepared
All the time
Be an instrument
Of righteousness
Compete according
To the rules


2. TWICE DEAD

Dreamers, polluting their own bodies
Shepherds who feed only themselves

Clouds without rain, blown along by the wind
Autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted
Twice dead

Wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame
Wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved
For ever

Woe to them!


3. C.O.D.

Sin!


4. AN ACCURSED BROOD

False prophets who
Secretly introduce
Destructive heresies
Bringing swift destruction
On themselves

Do not follow their shameful ways
Don’t bring the way of truth
Into disrepute

Greedy teachers
Their condemnation
Has been long
Hanging over them
Their destruction
Has not been sleeping
Blackest darkness
Is reserved for them

They are like brute beasts,
Creatures of instinct
Experts in greed
An accursed brood
Springs without water
Mists driven by a storm

Greedy teachers
Their condemnation
Has been long
Hanging over them
Their destruction
Has not been sleeping
Blackest darkness
Is reserved for them