God doesn't wish anyone to be destroyed.

Artfuldodger

Senior Member
Reading in 2 Peter 3, is this warning. It sounds like this destruction will happen when Christ returns. Like maybe it's physical but may be both physical and spiritual.
God doesn't want anyone to perish in this return when the earth will be destroyed.
Peter is telling them to repent and to conduct yourselves in holiness and godliness.
But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
 

Artfuldodger

Senior Member
Therefore, beloved, as you anticipate these things, make every effort to be found at peace—spotless and blameless in His sight.

How can this group that is wanting to escape this event find themselves spotless and blameless?

Consider also that our Lord’s patience brings salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom God gave him.
So we know that Peter is writing to some group or Church that Paul had already written to.
 

Artfuldodger

Senior Member
Therefore, beloved, since you already know these things, be on your guard so that you will not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure standing.

Why all these warnings that sound like the end is gonna come in their lifetime?
These warnings are always about this future event to those people living. They never say much about any of them being dead.

It's sorta in line with Matthew 24;
Those who are in Judea flee to the mountains; let him who is on the housetop not go down to get the things out that are in his house; and let him who is in the field not turn back to get his cloak.

That doesn't sound like a warning to people who will be dead at this future event.
 

Artfuldodger

Senior Member
Peter knew that he would not be living during this 2nd coming and thus why he kept reminding them. Did he figure or think they would be?
Peter also gives them more warnings on what will happen during the end times.
 

Artfuldodger

Senior Member
A lot of these end times warnings from Peter and Paul are about false profits and how to recognize them.
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine"

"But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."

This all sounds like it's written for living people, not dead people.
Also what is "sound doctrine?"If all of of these living people these letter were written to have salvation, why do they need so many warnings on how to act and live right?
 

Artfuldodger

Senior Member
If most of us say, 95% of us alive today and those already dead and gone will be dead, why is scripture so related to warnings for the few that will be alive when Christ returns? I'm not gonna be hiding on a rooftop or fleeing to the mountains. The whole concept seems to be centered around the return of Christ. The warnings, the destruction, the salvation, the resurrection, etc. Those alive during this return.
That's what most scripture is about. Warning those people in those letters how to live righteous and holy and a godliness life for that return. To never loose sight of that way of living by listening to false profits that will be prevalent during that time.
 
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