Thursday, December 1, 2011

Waiting for New Heavens and a New Earth in Which Righteousness Dwells

2 Peter 3:13 But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
While it is true that this place we call our temporary home will be destroyed by fire. God is giving us His promise of a new home where we will spend our eternity.
2 Peter 3:11-12 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!
We have been warned just as in the days of old and yet some still refuse to believe!
2 Peter 3:2-6  that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation." For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.
The Lord God has extreme patience with His creation so that none will perish. But He will come and after that, judgement! It will be unexpected and not even Christ or the angels know!
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
The Lord is good and His mercy is free! Repent from sin and trust Christ for salvation!
Matt.24:36 But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
Are you secure in the things of this world or are you secure in the knowledge of Christ as Savior?

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