2 Peter 3:3-4 The Message (MSG)
First off, you need to know that in the last days, mockers are going to have a heyday.
Reducing everything to the level of their petty feelings, they’ll mock, “So what’s happened to the promise of his Coming?
Our ancestors are dead and buried, and everything’s going on just as it has from the first day of creation. Nothing’s changed.”
8-9 Don’t overlook the obvious here, friends.
With God, one day is as good as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day.
God isn’t late with his promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself on account of you, holding back the End because he doesn’t want anyone lost.
He’s giving everyone space and time to change.
10 But when the Day of God’s Judgment does come, it will be unannounced, like a thief.
The sky will collapse with a thunderous bang, everything disintegrating in a raging inferno, earth and all its works exposed to the scrutiny of Judgment.
11-13 Since everything here today might well be gone tomorrow, do you see how essential it is to live a holy life? Daily expect the Day of God, eager for its arrival.
First off, you need to know that in the last days, mockers are going to have a heyday.
Reducing everything to the level of their petty feelings, they’ll mock, “So what’s happened to the promise of his Coming?
Our ancestors are dead and buried, and everything’s going on just as it has from the first day of creation. Nothing’s changed.”
8-9 Don’t overlook the obvious here, friends.
With God, one day is as good as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day.
God isn’t late with his promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself on account of you, holding back the End because he doesn’t want anyone lost.
He’s giving everyone space and time to change.
10 But when the Day of God’s Judgment does come, it will be unannounced, like a thief.
The sky will collapse with a thunderous bang, everything disintegrating in a raging inferno, earth and all its works exposed to the scrutiny of Judgment.
11-13 Since everything here today might well be gone tomorrow, do you see how essential it is to live a holy life? Daily expect the Day of God, eager for its arrival.