“Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.” 2 Peter 3:3
May 11, 2023
The nearer the time approaches for Jesus Christ to come again to this earth expect increased scoffing of the Scriptures. To scoff is to ridicule, deride, poke fun at, laugh at, taunt, revile. The Scriptures will be scoffed at by those who march to the drum-beat of unbelief. So-called political progressives have their own theology regarding the goal of history, and it is not a Christian worldview. Secularism is incurably committed to the better tomorrow fueled by arrogance. The apostle Peter under the direction of the Holy Spirit tells us that there will be those who wish to justify their own moral and spiritual agenda. Behind every denial of a biblical truth is a moral agenda. Those who scoff at the Second Coming of Christ have their “own wants and pleasures, and they justify indulging those desires by raising queries about those points of theology which condemn them” (D. Lucas). It is sin, not scholarship, which is in the driver’s seat. Last days living is not easy but highly rewarding to those who are lovingly loyal to Jesus Christ and have their mind’s eye on the new heavens and a new earth that will come.
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“Lord, teach me how to live so that Christ’s second coming will speak this truth to a skeptical world.