In the last days professing believers will live in a moral abyss.  They will live lives that are completely antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus, and yet they will profess to know Him.  This is a staggering revelation to consider, and a very disturbing theological tension.  They will stand off from Jesus through their godless actions, and yet they love to wear the masks of shallow belief.  They are indeed mere masks with no backs to their heads, and Paul tells us that we must turn away from such persons.