End Times Scoffers Q. I have a question about the scoffers in 2 Peter 3:2-4. Are these scoffers the folks now who tend to frown on the idea of the Rapture of the Church (just kind of generically rolling their eyes at those who are pre-trib, I guess), or are they specific to the time just before the 2nd coming, scoffing in earnest? A. Peter said this will be specific to the end times. These scoffers will deny the possibility of the Lord’s return based on their belief that life has always gone on without intervention and will always continue to do so. He said these people deliberately ignore the fact that it was God’s intervention that caused the creation in the first place and it was His intervention that caused the flood that destroyed it. The truth is that God has periodically intervened in the affairs of man and will do so again, regardless of what these people think. So he wasn’t speaking about people who disagree with the pre-trib rapture, but about those who deny the second coming altogether, and expect the world to just go on and on forever. Some of them will still be around to mourn when they see the sign of the Son of Man appear in the sky (Matt. 24:30) because they’ll finally realize they’ve been wrong and now it’s too late.
Posted on: Thu, 30 May 2013 23:02:41 +0000
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