2 Peter 3:1-18 and Mark 13:24-31, point us to the Great Day of God, that is, the second
coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: a)when the kingdoms
of this world will become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ (Revelation
11:15); b)when all that are in the graves will hear His
voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good unto the resurrection of
life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation (John
5:24-29); c)when the creation itself will be delivered from
the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God (Romans
8:21); d)when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with
His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God,
and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who will be punished
with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory
of His power; when he will come to be glorified in His saints (2
Thessalonians 1:7-10); e)when, in a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, at the last trump, for the trumpet will sound, and the dead (in
Christ) will be raised incorruptible, and we (who are alive) will be changed (1
Corinthians 15:52; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) f) when the day
of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass
away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the
earth and the works that are in it will be burned up…nevertheless we, according
to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness
dwells” (2 Peter 3:10,13; Revelation 21:1). Peter, in his epistle,
reminds us of those things we must remind ourselves of. And he warns us
to beware of the scoffers who will twist the Holy Scriptures to lead us into
the error of the wicked causing us to fall away. Christ had warned that, in the
time of the end, even the very elect could be deceived (Matthew 24:24).
And St Paul warned that there would be a great falling away before the second
coming of Jesus Christ (2 Thessalonians 2:3). May these sobering
realities lead us to a life of repentance and perpetual conversion. I have
zeroed in on four truths that will help us to live this life in the light of
the Great Day of God Almighty, which is the glorious revelation of Jesus Christ
from heaven, to judge the living and the dead (2 Timothy 4:1) and create
the new heavens and the new earth.