2700 years ago… Isaiah 8:12 – “Do not call conspiracy everything this people calls a conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it.”

2000 years ago… 1 Timothy 6:4-5 – “[False teachers] have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.”

Verses 1-2: Don’t be unsettled or alarmed.
Verses 3-4: This is why. You haven’t missed Christ’s return.
Verses 5-12: Let me say more about that.
Verses 13-17: Be so encouraged. You’re good because God’s got you.