God’s people pay attention to the environment they are living in and clearly discern what is happening around them - 2 Timothy 3:1-5 - “But understand (ginosko: know) this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant,(conceited) abusive,(blasphemer) disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,(wicked) 3 heartless,(loveless) unappeasable,(unwilling to reconcile) slanderous, without self-control, brutal,(savage) not loving good, 4 treacherous,(traitor, betrayer) ...