SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
05/14/2004
My Worship Time Focus: PT-5 God’s
Will Is Merciful
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Peter
3:8-10
Message of the
verses: 8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that
with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one
day. 9 The Lord is not slow about His
promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any
to perish but for all to come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will
come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the
elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will
be burned up.”
We have talked about repentance and also we have seen
that Peter has refuted their false claims, and so Peter then reaffirmed the
certainty of the coming of the Day of the Lord.
Now we will have to ask the question “When will it come?” Of course the answer to that question is that
no human knows the answer to it. Jesus
stated when He was on earth, before He went back to heaven that only the Father
knew the answer to that question. Now of
course since Jesus returned to the glory that He had before He came to planet
earth we can rest assured that He too knows the answer to this question. The Bible tells us about many things that
will happen when the Lord Jesus Christ will return to planet earth as described
in the 19th chapter of the book of Revelation. We know that there will be a one world
government headed up by the antichrist, and we know that Israel will be back in
their land, which they have been since 1948, and we know that the antichrist
will be head of a ten nation government as ten nations will merge under his
control. We know that Russia will be an
enemy against Israel, and that they will be aligned with Iran. We know that there will be a large army in
the East of 200 million soldiers. My
point in writing all of this is that we may not know the exact day, but we can
know from things that are going on in the world when the time is nearer. I have never been a date setter, but I do
look for “birth pangs” that Jesus spoke about in Matthew 24-25.
Now Peter is this section is actually talking about what
will happen at the end of the Millennial kingdom. Dr. Wiersbe quotes Kenneth Wuest with these
words “In which the heavens with a rushing noise will be dissolved, and the
elements being scorched will be dissolved, and the earth also and the works in
it will be burned up (2 Peter 3:10).”
I will now write what I think this verse is talking about
as I have learned over the years of studying prophecy. First of all I believe, as stated, that this
speaks of the total end of the world, along with all that God created, and that
it will happen after the millennial kingdom ends, which ends by the way with a
short battle between Satan who has by this time been let out of his prison
where he has been there for 1000 years.
He gathers those who are alive that are not believers and are against
God and they do battle. This battle will
not last long as the Lord will defeat Satan and those who are aligned with him. Next event I believe will be the “White
Throne Judgment” in which only unbelievers will be judged which is spoken of in
Revelation 20:11-15. After this event we
see in Revelation 21 John speaks of the new heavens and the new earth along
with the New Jerusalem. Now because of
this I believe that the old heavens and earth will be what I like to say as “un-created.” Let me explain: When we look at the word “elements” in 2
Peter 3:10 we see that the Greek word is “stoicheion stoy-khi’-on.” I have learned that this word can mean “basic
building blocks,” in other words it speaks of firth things. The basic building blocks of all the universe
is “atoms.” We know a lot more about
atoms since the end of World War II as two atom bombs were dropped in
Japan. No one knows how the atoms are held
together. I have explained this by
talking about magnets. If you take the
north end of a magnet and hold it against the south end of a magnet it will
stick together. If you take the north
end of a magnet and put it up against the north end of another magnet they will
repel. Inside of an atom you have two
north ends and they are not repelling against each other and no one knows how
they stay together. Jesus Christ holds
the atoms together and one day at the end of the millennial kingdom, after the
great white throne judgments He will let all the atoms in the universe go and
there will be the largest atom bomb ever as all that God created will explode
in great fire and after that the things in Revelation 21-22 will take place.
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