for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Here is their logical argument, you look around, don’t see anything that the Bible warns about so therefore they won’t see it. But to make this argument you have to willfully forget Rwanda, Ebola, the Holocaust, Russian Revolution, Cultural revolution, French revolution, etc.
5 For this they wilfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God; 6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
In Geology there was a theory called the principle of uniformitarianism which was a premise that the way the world was is pretty much the way it is now. So, some used that theory with something they falsely called science to claim that Noah’s flood and other cataclysmic events couldn’t take place. Then we discovered that in fact, at the end of the last ice age cataclysmic floods did take place every bit on the scale described in the Bible. We can use the size of ripple marks to determine how deep the water was that was flowing over them. We were able to determine that floods in the US and India were 40 meters deep just as the Bible said and that these floods did indeed flow down from the highest mountains. Since that point we have discovered that extinction events are very important in Earth’s history. They are rare, but they have happened five times prior to the current one and some were as horrific as anything we can even imagine. The last one was sixty five million years ago, so yes, they don’t happen all the time, but they do happen and when they do they are catastrophic. It was a shock to geologists when they discovered that in fact a meteorite was directly related to the extinction of the dinosaurs. After that we pushed for astronomers to track all the potential threats to life on Earth and have since discovered how very difficult that job is. We have had asteroids buzzing close to the Earth this year and according to NASA there is one that has the potential to strike the Earth around election day of this year.
8 But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
The context of this is that the Lord’s return could come on the third day. This age began with the Lord’s resurrection as the firstfruit, and it will end with the resurrection of the saints as the harvest. The age is likened to a year that begins in the Spring with Jesus death and resurrection and ends with Jesus coronation and wedding. Our rapture is likened to the resurrection. What is interesting about this is that this year is the very first Jubilee year of the third millennium. Using this word by Peter this is early on the third day. It is somewhat complicated but the Jewish calendar is not equivalent to the calendar that we use so the number of years is not exactly the same.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
There are some fascinating examples of this. For example, there were many who thought the Lord’s return would take place on the Festival of Trumpets this year. This was based on many different prophecies likening this festival to the Lord’s wedding and coronation, and to the great heavenly sign that appeared on the Festival of Trumpets in 2017, and on the Jewish tradition of the Bride circling the groom three times before the wedding. But the calendar had the festival of Trumpets on September 18th. After that date they discovered that on a Jubilee year the festival of trumpets is on the day of atonement ten days later, September 28th. But then, we learned more about the Biblical calendar. Although it is a lunar calendar (the first day of every month is a new moon) it is also a solar calendar because the first month cannot begin before the Spring equinox. When that happens you have a “leap month” adding a month to the calendar and have 13 months that year. This year the first month began immediately after the equinox. However, there is a second test which is that it must take place during the Barley harvest (so that you can celebrate the feast of firstfruits). This is harder to calculate and there was some dispute about this. The third check is that if you have done this correctly the Festival of Trumpets will occur after the Fall equinox. September 18th was before the Fall equinox, so they made a mistake. This is a year where we add a leap month an extra month giving people that extra little bit of time to repent. Therefore the real start of the month is October 18th which is also a “super new moon” (the new moon that occurs when the moon is closest to the Earth). But since it is also a Jubilee year that gives people another ten days on top of that to repent. Therefore the festival of Trumpets this year will be on October 28th and 29th.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
This is important, the clarification that Peter gives. Yes, the day of the Lord will come as a thief, but not to everybody. If you are raptured, if you are like the wise virgins whose vessels are full of oil, if you are like Noah when he entered the ark, it doesn’t come as a thief for you. That is because you were wise, you heeded the warnings, you repented and you prepared. But for all those mockers and those walking in the lust of their flesh it will certainly come as a thief. Recently there was a vineyard in California that was burned to the ground and the owner was on the news saying everything they had built up over generations was gone. That should be a warning to everyone. Ron Reagan, Ronald Reagan’s son, was a very famous atheist who claimed he was not afraid of the fires of hell. Where is he now? Why isn’t he making those ads now?
11 Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness, 12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
This is why this is a crucial part of the gospel message. When you have a vision of the end of the age it is a controlling vision. You live and walk in light of that vision. Little, petty offences look just like that, small, petty and insignificant.
13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
We are not rejoicing that some people are not repenting or that God’s judgement will fall on some. Instead, our focus is on the new heavens and new earth where righteousness dwells. Let’s consider how incredibly unrighteous the situation is here in October of 2020. We have just learned that the FBI had Hunter Biden’s laptop with thousands of emails completely laying out a corruption scandal between Hunter Biden, business interests in the Ukraine, China, Iraq, and other countries and Joe Biden. Not only so but there were also thousands of pictures that proved Hunter Biden continued to be a drug addict and also child porn. They have had this laptop for a year. Did they bring charges against the Bidens? No. However the story still managed to leak out this month. Facebook whose executive in charge of dealing with the Presidential campaign censored this story. It turns out that this person worked with Biden in Obama’s administration on the Ukraine deals. Twitter also censored the story, locking out the President’s press secretary for tweeting the story and locking the NY Post account. They were caught in an ugly web of hypocrisy which is a whole other story of lies and deceit. But the story is not just of a corrupt politician and his reprobate son, nor is it of an FBI coverup or even of censorship by these giant tech giants. Adam Schiff a prominent leader among the Democrats put out a story saying that the intelligence community had evidence that this laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign. In other words the whole story is false, made up by the Russians to impact our election. So the Director of National Intelligence also went on the news to state publicly and unequivocally that there is absolutely no intelligence suggesting that the laptop is part of a Russian disinformation campaign. He said that 100% of the intelligence that Adam Schiff gets goes through him and he lied when he said this. That makes Adam Schiff guilty of a disinformation campaign to alter the election. CNN and MSNBC both ran with Adam Schiff, using his statements to discredit the story. So CNN, MSNBC and senior members of the democratic party are part of this disinformation campaign to cover up the sins of Joe Biden. But it is even worse than that when you consider the potential security risk of having a president blackmailed by foreign countries clearly aware of his sins would pose. But incredible as this all is there is still more. This puts the entire dossier that Clinton’s camp put together to smear Trump and the three year campaign to investigate and impeach him in an entirely new light of crooks taking a preemptive shot.
