Read 2 Peter 3:1-8
Before Jesus came to earth the first time, the people had waited for centuries for the prophecies of a Messiah coming to earth, to come to pass. Many had given up of it ever happening. Each generation thought it would happen in their generation and when it didn’t they lost hope. When it DID happen, many missed it because it didn’t happen the way they thought it would. There will always be people the Bible calls, scoffers who will make fun of our faith. They will laugh at our belief that Jesus is coming back again through the skies to fight a battle with men and demons and set up a millennial reign on earth for a thousand years. It sounds like fairy tale foolishness to them. Their minds haven’t been renewed in Jesus so they are blinded to anything but the here and now. They don’t understand or believe that once the earth was destroyed by water because of its wickedness and next it will be destroyed by fire for the same reason. God judged it once and he will judge it again. God doesn’t look at time like we do. He calls a thousand years a day. Time is not measurable in eternity, only on earth. But he created the earth in 6 days and on the 7th, he rested. The earth will endure for 6,000 years and on the 7,000th it will rest in millennium. That is God’s plan. The Jewish calendar says that we are somewhere in the 5,700th year. That leaves a few hundred more years. Who, but God knows if that calendar is right. He has a calendar that is right and he is going by that one. Our job is to be ready when he comes.
Lord, help us to live with eternity on our minds. Give us the big picture and a heart to bring your salvation to a sinful world.
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