The Day of the Lord Is Coming

2 Peter 3:11-13

11 Since everything around us is going to melt away, what holy, godly lives you should be living! 12 You should look forward to that day and hurry it along — the day when God will set the heavens on fire and the elements will melt away in the flames. 13 But we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world where everyone is right with God. (NLT)

The world is closing in on the end days and we are to be living holy and godly lives. We are to be living, not existing. We are to be looking forward to the day Jesus returns, but in the meantime we are to living life, being in prayer, being in the Spirit and living for the Lord Jesus Christ. Live this life because in the future we will live in a new heaven and a new earth which has been promised.

A world where everyone is right with God

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The Day of the Lord Is Coming

2 Peter 3:8-10

8 But you must not forget, dear friends, that a day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day. 9 The Lord isn't really being slow about his promise to return, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to perish, so he is giving more time for everyone to repent. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and everything in them will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be exposed to judgment.   (NLT)

Do not forget, dear friends, that a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day to the Lord. God is not bound by time as we are, but the Lord wants to give everyone time to repent and turn to Jesus. He will return but only at the proper time. We are to continue sharing the Gospel, the good news or the Mega news. This is what we are to be doing and that is spreading the love and message of Jesus Christ. We are to be living our lives as a reflection of Jesus Christ. Letting Him be our King and surrendering ourselves to Him and His will.

Live each day as though this is the day the Lord Jesus returns.

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The Day of the Lord Is Coming

2 Peter 3:5-7

5 They deliberately forget that God made the heavens by the word of his command, and he brought the earth up from the water and surrounded it with water. 6 Then he used the water to destroy the world with a mighty flood. 7 And God has also commanded that the heavens and the earth will be consumed by fire on the day of judgment, when ungodly people will perish. (NLT)

The end is coming, we do not know when but it is coming all the same. Are you ready? The world thinks things will continue, but God says otherwise. The world has forgotten who made earth and all that is in it, they have forgotten that it is God who sustains their life and it is He who loves them. It is God who is in control of all things.

Seek the Lord and He will let you find Him and show you all that He has for you.

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The Day of the Lord Is Coming

1 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 of the things that the prophets have told us. First they predicted the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and His death, burial and resurrection and those things came true. They came true in God’s timing not human timing. Second the prophets predicted that Jesus would return and the world would be judged. Jesus also told us that He would return and He will, not in the human time frame but in God’s timing.

Also scoffers will come and deny who Jesus is and will try to convince even the believers that Jesus is not who He said He is. They will laugh at the truth because their father is the devil and He was a liar from the beginning. They will make up all kinds of things to try to disprove the truth but their day of judgement is coming.

Stand firm in the faith, put on the full armor of Christ and follow Him wherever He leads you. Be ready in season and out of season. Be the Light of Christ everywhere you go. Love as Jesus loves you, do not fear for He is always with you and He will never leave you or forsake you.

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2 Peter 2:12-22

12 These false teachers are like unthinking animals, creatures of instinct, who are born to be caught and killed. They laugh at the terrifying powers they know so little about, and they will be destroyed along with them. 13 Their destruction is their reward for the harm they have done. They love to indulge in evil pleasures in broad daylight. They are a disgrace and a stain among you. They revel in deceitfulness while they feast with you. 14 They commit adultery with their eyes, and their lust is never satisfied. They make a game of luring unstable people into sin. They train themselves to be greedy; they are doomed and cursed. 15 They have wandered off the right road and followed the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved to earn money by doing wrong. 16 But Balaam was stopped from his mad course when his donkey rebuked him with a human voice.

17 These people are as useless as dried-up springs of water or as clouds blown away by the wind — promising much and delivering nothing. They are doomed to blackest darkness. 18 They brag about themselves with empty, foolish boasting. With lustful desire as their bait, they lure back into sin those who have just escaped from such wicked living. 19 They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves to sin and corruption. For you are a slave to whatever controls you. 20 And when people escape from the wicked ways of the world by learning about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then get tangled up with sin and become its slave again, they are worse off than before. 21 It would be better if they had never known the right way to live than to know it and then reject the holy commandments that were given to them. 22 They make these proverbs come true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and "A washed pig returns to the mud." (NLT)

Peter gives a pretty good description here of what false teachers really are. The issue is what do you do if confronted with a false teacher or someone proclaiming unbiblical truth or worse removing truth for something else? For those who fall into this trap of believing what they say or doing the things they do they may become worse than they were before. For you are a slave to whatever controls you.

This you must do to thwart the false teachers and that is be in the Word, know the Word and live the Word. Abide in Christ as Christ abide in you. Be in the Spirit and let the Spirit guide you and teach you God’s truth. You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

Jesus is the truth.

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2 Peter 2:4-11

4 For God did not spare even the angels when they sinned; he threw them into hell, in gloomy caves and darkness until the judgment day. 5 And God did not spare the ancient world — except for Noah and his family of seven. Noah warned the world of God's righteous judgment. Then God destroyed the whole world of ungodly people with a vast flood. 6 Later, he turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into heaps of ashes and swept them off the face of the earth. He made them an example of what will happen to ungodly people. 7 But at the same time, God rescued Lot out of Sodom because he was a good man who was sick of all the immorality and wickedness around him. 8 Yes, he was a righteous man who was distressed by the wickedness he saw and heard day after day.

9 So you see, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials, even while punishing the wicked right up until the day of judgment. 10 He is especially hard on those who follow their own evil, lustful desires and who despise authority. These people are proud and arrogant, daring even to scoff at the glorious ones without so much as trembling. 11 But the angels, even though they are far greater in power and strength than these false teachers, never speak out disrespectfully against the glorious ones.  (NLT)

God is a Holy and Just God. As God warned Noah God has also warned us in His Word that in the end time things will get worse and worse. But do not fear for God is with you and He watches over you. The Word tells us to stand firm and to be ready. Be in the Word and be in the world but not of the world. God is bringing His judgement and the Lord knows how to rescue His godly people from their trials, even when the ungodly are being punished. So do not fear for God is with you always even to the end of the age. Greater is He that is in you then he that is the world. Jesus has conquered all and the victory has been won.

Jesus has done it all and all has been accomplished.

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