Summary
Yet, once again, and so we start scouting to see if there are any other shorter lines, so we don't have to wait quite so long. Mark the gospel that Jesus would come again because he had not shown himself again. In verse 8 of our reading today, he writes, Do not ignore this one fact beloved that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like one day. We're going to calculate how many days have been happening and then we're going to time that by the thousand and that's how many days until Jesus returns. With the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like one day. When we read of the coming of Jesus in glory for judgment, gathering the nations before him, when we read that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night that is not for us to fear that the Lord is just waiting, to catch us in the act of sinning, hoping, hoping that he will get to gather us to himself in order to dam us that is not what he is saying here.
Video citations
- “Longsuffering” 9-4-22 — If you would please open your Bibles to second Peter, the third chapter, second Peter, the third chapter. Waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting. It's such a big, long part of life. We wait and we wait…