It is indicated that such shall be the case in the time of the end, hence, that time must be here now. This Scripture will be fulfilled to the letter during the reign of the Antichrist, which will occupy the last days of The Great Tribulation. The point to which I call special attention here is the last phrase quoted, with many ships. Much of the present European war is being enacted on the sea. The nations of the earth are now preparing battleships as never before.
Every civilized nation seems to be preparing for war, and that war to be fought largely on the sea.
Surely all these things are in the world today. Many have already departed from the faith, and are fulfilling the above Scripture to the letter. Such ones are giving heed to doctrines of devils, forbidding to marry, and teaching that those who eat meat are unclean. For that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.