2 Peter 3:1-4

This is my second letter to you, dear friends, and in both of them I have tried to stimulate your wholesome thinking and refresh your memory. 2 I want you to remember and understand what the holy prophets said long ago and what our Lord and Savior commanded through your apostles.

3 First, I want to remind you that in the last days there will be scoffers who will laugh at the truth and do every evil thing they desire. 4 This will be their argument: "Jesus promised to come back, did he? Then where is he? Why, as far back as anyone can remember, everything has remained exactly the same since the world was first created." (NLT)

 

Peter wants to remind us that Jesus is coming. He is not slow about what He is doing but it is all planned out ahead of time. Remember it is not your plan, it is God the Father's plan and it will come about in His timing.  It may come in our life time, but if it does not we are not to stop sharing the gospel.

Peter also wants to remind us that as time goes on scoffers will come and they always do. But we are not to listen to them but to continue to love as God loves. We are to endure to the end. As chapter two indicated in the end they will receive their reward, but we are to continue to obey what the Lord Jesus Christ has told us and instructed us to do. The harvest is ready and we need to be about the Father's business in sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ.