The first statement II Peter makes regarding the finality of history 3:3-7: unbelievers in every age deny it. An easy decision since they reject the Biblical concept of catastrophism—God’s violent interruption of history in Noah’s Flood. The various flood legends recorded in world cultures do not rival the historic flood of Noah. It records the loss of all but 8 humans kept alive in an ocean-liner sized Ark. It also serves as a symbol of God’s greater destruction of the entire cosmos by FIRE!
The second statement 3:8. God’s delay in finalizing history reminds us that he is as timeless as we are time-bound. He gave us a time frame for historical records, providing the days, months, years and centuries that make history so boring to some and, to others who tolerate the dates to study their significance, so essential. What it all means is that God makes decisions by a different perspective: the sin that ripens society for judgment Genesis 15:16. Which leads to the third statement 3:9. History—HIS STORY—concerns itself with God working out his will in human lives, the purpose that Paul revealed in II Corinthians 5:1-10. Whatever our career-choice, our life-purpose remains singular: to live eternally in the new body Christ modeled, Revelation 1:12-18, and we inherit. Thus, history is really all about God telling us:
Jesus Returns as Judge.
ETERNAL LIFE in Christ bequeaths a full life of discipleship NOW and HOPE of a dramatic, inimitable life THEN. Fini
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