2 Peter 3:3-7

v3: In these last days, this time between Christ’s first and second coming, we must expect there to be scoffers, “those who will make fun of sin and salvation.” The way in which God saves “sinners through Jesus Christ is something people will laugh at.” Don’t be surprised when this happens. **

v4: Those who believes in Jesus, “not only desire that Christ come, but, having a promise that he will come - a promise that he himself has made and often repeated, a promise received and reported by faithful witnesses and left on faithful record - they are also firmly and fully persuaded that he will come.” Those who do not believe in Jesus and who try to shake and unsettle us in our belief in Christ’s second coming, “wish him never to come,” which is why they “do all they can to deceive themselves and others into being convinced he will never come. If they cannot deny there is a promise, they will laugh at the promise itself.”

v5-6: The scoffers, Peter described, chose to take no notice of, to act “as if they had never heard or known anything about,” and to refuse to remember a time when the world changed from what it was like at the beginning of creation. They claimed that the world has gone on the same way right from the beginning, but that is not true. It was dramatically altered by the flood in the days of Noah, when God acted according to his word of promise, “that he would destroy all humanity… and that he would do it by bringing a flood of waters on the earth.” It will alter again when God acts according to his word of promise by sending His Son a second time to judge.

v7: The judgment coming when Christ returns, “is still to come, and will definitely come, even though we do not know when… We cannot be sure that it will not happen in our own time.” Unlike the Flood, where a few found safety and escaped God’s judgment in the sanctuary of an ark, there will not be “a single place in the whole world where anyone can be safe,” when this coming judgement arrives. “Those who now scoff at a future judgment will find it a day of vengeance and total destruction.” Therefore, you need to “make sure you are found in Christ, so that a day that will be of indignation and wrath for the ungodly world may be a time of refreshment and a day of redemption for you.”