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You know this is exactly the attitude that was predicted would foster.
2 Peter 3:3First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4“Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything continues as it has from the beginning of creation.”
Of course at the same time I cannot say I am innocent as I too have had this kind of attitude from time to time fulfilling prophecy in itself. But that is funny thing about it isn't it? Jesus himself said how he would come as a thief in the night and sudden destruction was prophesied to happen and all in a time when people would have this train of thought unaware the prophecy they were fulfilling when suddenly in the blink of an eye it will happen regardless if we think it will or not.
As much as I wish and hope for his return any day now I also keep my heart ready for the future, it does no good to pin your hopes on the rapture and not have your heart ready for the rest of your life. For all. I know I may very well live to be 60 years old before I get to go home but while I do not make any predictions of when the rapture will happen my heart still is more than prepared and even excitedly anticipates it. But only because almost 7 months ago God spoke to me to not give up on the rapture because it's closer than I think. Before that I too would have this kind of attitude, I would even say this to God in my daily walks and the rapture was little more than a topic to me not an actual thing to hope for.
But I do have to say something stirred inside me this Christmas eve, I don't know why or what it is but as I was walking to the store Christmas eve I felt something inside me move or maybe stir or awaken I don't really know what to call it but the words something is coming blurted out of my mouth without my consent kind of like how when pressure builds up and bursts through a soda can.
Honestly I don't even what this (something) is but the words that burst out of me was something is coming and it's going to be a game changer like the turning of the wind.
2 Peter 3:3First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4“Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything continues as it has from the beginning of creation.”
Of course at the same time I cannot say I am innocent as I too have had this kind of attitude from time to time fulfilling prophecy in itself. But that is funny thing about it isn't it? Jesus himself said how he would come as a thief in the night and sudden destruction was prophesied to happen and all in a time when people would have this train of thought unaware the prophecy they were fulfilling when suddenly in the blink of an eye it will happen regardless if we think it will or not.
As much as I wish and hope for his return any day now I also keep my heart ready for the future, it does no good to pin your hopes on the rapture and not have your heart ready for the rest of your life. For all. I know I may very well live to be 60 years old before I get to go home but while I do not make any predictions of when the rapture will happen my heart still is more than prepared and even excitedly anticipates it. But only because almost 7 months ago God spoke to me to not give up on the rapture because it's closer than I think. Before that I too would have this kind of attitude, I would even say this to God in my daily walks and the rapture was little more than a topic to me not an actual thing to hope for.
But I do have to say something stirred inside me this Christmas eve, I don't know why or what it is but as I was walking to the store Christmas eve I felt something inside me move or maybe stir or awaken I don't really know what to call it but the words something is coming blurted out of my mouth without my consent kind of like how when pressure builds up and bursts through a soda can.
Honestly I don't even what this (something) is but the words that burst out of me was something is coming and it's going to be a game changer like the turning of the wind.
No it's not the "attitude" - note that Peter is speaking to his contemporaries not generations hundreds of years in the future - he is speaking of "our fathers" not mine or your fathers.
And you mis-dispensationalists ignore or gloss over the fact that he'd previously written to them that:
1 Pet 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Do you think Peter had Alzheimer's?
Heb 10:37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Rom 9:28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
What Peter is speaking of is of bible prophecy and something that is important to understand about bible prophecy is that it is almost always speaking to and about present and future generations. Peter and the apostles spoke as the holy spirit lead them it was never their own words they spoke and they themselves expected Jesus to return at any moment but the fact he didn't means they didn't fully understand the prophecy being spoken out of them as is the case most times when prophecy is spoken from the lips of who God chooses to speak from.
God's words transcend time and are meant for all generations not just the one it was written in and especially so when it comes to bible prophecy for bible prophecy being the meat of all meats in the bible is not to be taken at face value. To understand the way bible prophecy functions you need to actually study bible prophecy itself not just talk about it or read about it. For instance bible prophecy tends to foreshadow a lot, have you ever noticed the similarity of the plagues brought upon Pharaoh and Egypt when he would not let Moses and his people go compared to the plagues that revelation speaks of? Or the fact that only those with the blood of a lamb on their door were protected from death when God's final judgment came on Egypt? Does that sound oddly similar to us who are coated with the blood of the lamb and will not face God's upcoming final judgment on the world?