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Maranatha!
“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.”
- Matthew 24:36-39
“Paul, in his epistles to the Corinthians and the Thessalonians, had more than once spoken as if the coming of our Lord Jesus was very near”
Yes, it WAS near, in 70 AD. Jesus promised that the generation listening to Him in 30 AD would see Him in glory.
We know from Josephus that the people in besieged Jerusalem saw the signs of a heavenly host and we know that the temple was utterly destroyed, not one stone resting upon another.
We also know that the Jesus movement Jews ie the Christians saw the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD as a fulfilment of Daniel, of the Olivet discourse and of the Revelation of John and that us why Christianity spread further after that.
I love it when scoffers come to an article written about them.
How nice!
Good article brother. Hopefully it encourages all of us to remain true to the faith, no matter how many scoffers we encounter.
Ironic, is it not, that people scoff at Bible prophecy unfolding before their very eyes, and yet believe all the doom and gloom globull warming, green energy, petroleum is destroying the planet, Covid vaxxes are *safe and effective* and any other MSM promoted hysteria that comes across the screen.
Perhaps today, perhaps Tish'a B'Av =)
Maranatha!
“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago, and an earth formed out of water and by means of water, through which the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist have been stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men
But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow about his promise as some count slowness, but is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.”
In context, Peter here is not talking about a rapture that will snatch believers from the earth before some tribulation and earthly millennial reign of Christ, but about his Second Coming at the end of time. The scoffers of his time were trying to discount the fact that Christ would come at all and so feel free to continue their depraved lives. When Christ comes for his Church, he will only come once, at which time the dead will rise, those believers still on earth taken up, and then immediately the judgement and eternity.
I should add that Peter is quoting Psalm 90, specifically verse 4: "For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night." The whole Psalm is about the eternalness of God compared to the frailty and passing nature of man. If Peter was applying this to a future millennial reign, he would be guilty of severe out of context proof-texting.
You do not have to hold to the novel and convoluted rapturist End Times schema to benefit from Peter's warning. Christ can come at any time, and it behooves us to be ready at all times.
Christ has died.
Christ is risen.
Christ will come again. Amen. Alleluia.
[Surely at some point, as a modern-day watchman on the wall, you have experienced that sharp smirk or the raising of unbelieving eyebrows as you attempt to explain to a lost friend or family member that the world we now see unfolding before our very eyes is exactly as the Bible said it would be at the end of the age and that the long-awaited return of Jesus to this earth is finally upon us! Perhaps your warnings have even evoked laughter or biting sarcasm, scoffing of a more contentious nature?]
I’ve been trying to explain to someone that life on this planet is about to change dramatically.
She just rolls her eyes and kinda laughs.
She has generally been pretty nice to me, so I take it without much offense.
But the good part is, while she doesn’t believe me right now, she will later.