Sunday 3 January 2010

Question on the destruction of the wicked and also the scoffers in 2 Peter 3

The issue of Him coming WITH His saints as it says in 1Thessalonians 3:13 and Creation's groan in Romans 8 for our manifestation rather than His, and Him coming riding the tribe of Judah as His horse in battle, as I believe Zechariah 10:3 says -- that's a separate and distinct issue from the punishment of the ungodly through the proclamation of the Gospel, their reaping what they've sown if we've walked in His character in 1Peter chapters 2 through 5, and the restoration of all of the nations to God through Christ Jesus via the outpouring of Holy Spirit when they've entered into the valley of Decision in Joel chapter 2.  Salvation through the Cross and the Gospel isn't the same issue as the transformation of the world within world history in 2Peter 3, and the scoffing that 2Peter 3 talks about is the scoffing that anything will get better and then it brings up Noah as an antitype that as things did come to a generation that went down the toilet with God's flush thousands of years ago, there will come a critical "omega point" generation when all things will be transformed, in the heavens will dwell righteousness exclusively, etc.  An all things continue as they have since the beginning is talking about things only going from bad to good to bad in cycles, but nothing ever permanently changing, but as catastrophic as sin got in Noah's day, the righteousness that surpasses the fall in Romans 5 must have a much, much more powerful transformative effect upon the present heavens and earth 'til nothing but righteousness ultimately dwells in them. If anything, 2Peter 3 is a direct challenge against reincarnation doctrines rather than anything about whether or not all things and all beings will be restored and will sing the chorus of the redeemed in Revelation 5:13. 

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