#The_Promise_of_His_Coming
#AD70_Judgment
2Peter
3
2That ye may be mindful of the words which
were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the
apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
3
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking
after their own lusts,
4.
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming?...
Questions:
1.
What were the words spoken before by the holy prophets?
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the fearsome judgment upon earthly theocratic Israel?
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the great judgment day at the end of the world?
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something else?
2.
There shall come in the last days scoffers:
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last days of earthly and geriatric theocratic Israel, or
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last days of what? Last days of the present world?
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something else?
3.
Who were the scoffers, and what were they scoffing at?
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at the fearsome judgment upon earthly theocratic Israel?
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at the great judgment day at the end of the world?
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something else?
4.
The promise of which/what coming?
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the Lord's coming in AD70 to judge earthly theocratic Israel?
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the Lord's coming at the end of the present world?
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something else?
Remember
the solemn warnings of the Lord Jesus Christ about the destruction and the end
of earthly theocratic Israel in Matthew 24 and the called to preparedness for
His promised coming in judgment.
Consider
the words spoken before by some holy prophets:
Malachi
4:1
"For,
behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and
all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them
up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor
branch."
Joel
2
1
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all
the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is
nigh at hand;
2 A
day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as
the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath
not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years
of many generations...
30
And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and
pillars of smoke.
31
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the
great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
The
chapter begins with the prophecy of the promised coming "of the day of the
LORD" and ends with the coming of "the great and terrible day of the
LORD." Apostle Peter on the day of Pentecost quoted from Joel. Christ's in
His warning concerning the destruction of Israel in Mt 24 quoted from Joel.
Apostle Paul quoted Joel in Romans 10.
Gill commented on verse 31 thus: "-- before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come; not the fall of Gog and Magog, as Kimchi; not the day of the last judgment, but of the destruction of Jerusalem; not by the Chaldeans, but by the Romans; their last destruction, which was very great and terrible indeed, and in which there was a manifest appearance of the hand and power of God; see Malachi 4:1."
Zephaniah
1
14
The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the
voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
15
That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness
and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick
darkness...
Multitudes
of Jews were scoffing at the promised coming of "the great and terrible
day of the LORD" in 70 AD.
Compare
Joel 2:2 with Mt 24:21.
Apostle
Peter wrote, about AD66?, to warn the Jewish believers against those scoffers
lest they are turned away from the truth of the promised coming of the LORD's
vengeance upon Israel in AD70.
