![]() ![]() As a bleak snow falls, he sees the last remnants of life awaiting extinction. The protagonist travels millions of years into the future. Yet in Wells' book, this science-fiction story does not have a happy ending. Like many scientists, he believes "progress" will enable the human race to build. ![]() The time traveler is preoccupied with the future, not the past. WELLS published a book titled The Time Machine, an imaginative tale of a scientist who builds a machine that can transport someone through time. The man then asked, "God, can I have a penny?” God responded, “Sure! Just give Me a minute.” The man asked, “God how much Is a million dollars?” God answered, “In My frame of reference, it’s about a minute.” "God," he said, "HOW LONG is a million years?" He was identifying shapes when he decided to talk to God. In fact time only seems long because of man’s finite perspective.Ī man was taking it easy, lying on the grass and looking up at the clouds. So we are asked not to forget that “with the Lord one day is as a thousand years.” People see time against time but God sees time against eternity. A hundred years, a thousand years, a thousand millenniums are all the same for the Creator of time and space. However, this can never be true of the eternal God Who has no beginning and no ending. His creation is confined to the continuing cycle of birth and death. There is one simple reality that the ungodly forget and that believers should never forget: time does not constrain to the one Who created time. ![]() We who are called the beloved of God are to grab hold of this concept. In verse 8 he does just that by referring to the teaching of Psalm 90:4, “For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.” The psalmist has declared it and Peter believed it. He has encouraged his readers to heed the Word of God which has come from the prophets and the apostles. Peter practices what he has been preaching. “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.” God does not count time in the same way that we do. In verse 8 God’s eternal perspective on history is contrasted with the short-term expectations of human beings. The second reason the Lord’s return seems to be so long in coming is that God is giving time for as many people as possible to come to repentance so that they can be saved. First, God completely transcends time so the Lord counts time differently than does man since time is of no consequence to Him. Therefore Peter gives us two factors which explain why God is delaying the intervention of His coming for as long as He likes. Since God promised another intervention of His physical presence in human affairs, the Second Coming must take place. There is no doubt concerning the certainty of the second Coming of Jesus Christ. God’s is holding back the establishment of His kingdom so that the multiplied billions may have a longer, and hopefully better, opportunity to hear the gospel, and come to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. Non-Calvinists try to destroy a wonderful message of assurance, in order to insert a meaningless assertion of God's omnibenevolence which He knows will NEVER come to fruition.After addressing the lost people mocking of God’s Word and the Lord Jesus’ seeming delay in returning to correct mankind in the previous verses (1–7), Peter goes on to speak about the restraint of the Lord in verses 8–9. 3:9 is an amazingly wonderful ASSURANCE that God will NEVER lose any of His elect sheep.īut non-Calvinists are too busy trying to "defend" God (who needs no "defending"), and trying to claim that God is so Uber-loving that He wants EVERYONE to be saved ("unlimited atonement"), even though God KNOWS that not everyone will be saved. IGNORING the fact that "not willing that any should perish" is referring to this latter "beloved" group.Ģ Pet. IGNORING that 2 Pet 3:9 is concerning the "beloved", and "us-ward" (a particular group) IGNORING the fact that Peter is contrasting two different groups ("scoffers" vs. IGNORING that these books were written to "the elect" Mind that He is "not will that ANY should Reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and With water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the Shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their 3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you ![]()
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