2 Timothy 3:1-8 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
Black Friday brought a wave of violence across the United States.
In Romeoville, Illinois, a driver believed to be part of a shoplifting scheme was shot by police after he dragged a police officer with his car while trying to escape in the parking lot of a Kohl’s department store. The suspected shoplifter and two accomplices were arrested. The officer’s injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
A witness at the store told the Chicago Tribute the sight of a shirtless officer being bandaged by emergency personnel and a car with the window shot out did nothing to slow down shoppers heading into the store.
A police officer in Rialto, California was wounded when he tried to break up a fight after a store manager decided to open early. The fight that wounded the officer was one of three at the store. All the people involved in the fighting were taken into custody.
A man who had purchased a big screen TV at a Target store in Las Vegas was shot as he walked home. The man was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
At least two people at a Utah Wal-Mart were injured after being thrown to the ground in a stampede of people attempting to get $49 tablet computers.
