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FOUR END-TIME ETHICS

1 Peter 4:7-11 7  Now the end of all things is near; therefore, be serious and disciplined for prayer .  8  Above all, maintain an intense love for each other , since love covers a multitude of sins.  9  Be hospitable  to one another without complaining.  10  Based on the gift each one has received, use it to serve others, as good managers of the varied grace of God.  11  If anyone speaks, it should be as one who speaks God’s words; if anyone serves, it should be from the strength God provides, so that God may be glorified through Jesus Christ in everything. To Him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen. (HCSB) Background: Date – (62-64 AD) – Nero’s time AD 70 - Destruction of Jerusalem temple. Also, it was a time of severe persecution. “…‘ the end of all things’ here is the entire end of the Jewish economy in the destruction of the city and temple of Jerusalem, and the dispersion of the holy people … It is quite plain that in our Lord's prediction the e