This year is going fast. The last great summer holiday, Labor Day, is only weeks away. Fall and winter are just around the bend. After the exceptionally long hot summer, I am hoping for an early fall and more comfortable temperatures (also an end to this horrific fire season).
I was reading in 2 Peter this morning. Chapter 3 is about the coming of the Day of the Lord. Peter writes “Most importantly, I want to remind you that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking the truth and following their own desires. They will say, ‘What happened to the promise that Jesus is coming again? From before the times of our ancestors, everything has remained the same since the world was first created.’” [Verses 3-4 NLT]
God gave a promise that the Lord would return. The prophets of old spoke that promise. Jesus foretold the promise of His return. The angels on the mount when Jesus ascended into heaven reiterated that promise. The Lord will come again.
If the people of Peter’s day were wondering why it was taking so long to realize the promise, how much more are we wondering the same 2000 years later? Our world is filled today with scoffers who follow their own evils desires, who say nothing ever changes.
Peter goes on though and reminds us that the scoffers who mock the coming of the Lord are deliberately forgetting things. They “deliberately forget that God made the heavens long ago by the word of his command, and he brought the earth out from the water and surrounded it with water. Then he used the water to destroy the ancient world with a mighty flood.” [vs 5-6 NLT]
These scoffers said that everything goes on as it has from the beginning of creation; nothing ever changes. But they are forgetting that things do change and change dramatically in an instant by the word of God. The world as it was from creation to Noah was suddenly changed when God caused a great flood to cover the face of the earth in judgment. And God has promised by His same word, that this present heaven and earth are being kept for a Day of Judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
Change is coming.
