My best source for proof of my concept is Peter. It’s interesting how Peter covers the oddities of our faith. Maybe it’s because of all the spiritual warfare directed at him.
One caveat: I do regularly ridicule pre-tribulation
Rapture propaganda; however, I never scoff at our Lord’s soon return. I follow
HaShem’s command found below: You
should lead holy and godly lives, as you wait for the Day of God and work to
hasten its coming. That Day will bring…. II Peter 3:12 (CJB). Please focus on leading holy and godly lives
until the Lord’s Day, like the scriptures state; whereas, if you monitor the
hype coming from the Rapture-people lately, you’ll know why they’re so wrong in
their eschatology. Peter tells us that we should be fervently praying for His
return amidst the mayhem. So do it until the harvest!
(Emphasis added) I am trying to arouse you to
wholesome thinking by means of reminders; so that you will keep in mind the predictions of the holy prophets
and the command given by the Lord and Deliverer through your emissaries. First, understand
this: during the Last Days, scoffers
will come, following their own desires and asking, "Where is this
promised 'coming' of his? For our fathers have died, and everything goes on
just as it has since the beginning of creation." But, wanting so much to
be right about this, they overlook the fact that it was by God's Word that long
ago there were heavens, and there was land which arose out of water and existed
between the waters, and that by means of these things the world of that time
was flooded with water and destroyed. It is by that same Word that the present
heavens and earth, having been preserved, are being kept for fire until the Day of Judgment, when ungodly people
will be destroyed. Moreover, dear friends, do not ignore this: with the
Lord, one day is like a thousand years
and a thousand years like one day The
Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some people think of slowness; on
the contrary, he is patient with you; for it is not his purpose that anyone
should be destroyed, but that everyone should turn from his sins. However,
the Day of the Lord will come "like a thief." On that Day the heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will melt and disintegrate,
and the earth and everything in it will be burned up. Since everything
is going to be destroyed like this, what kind of people should you be? You should lead holy and godly lives, as
you wait for the Day of God and work to hasten its coming. That Day will bring on the destruction of
the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt from the heat; but we,
following along with his promise, wait for new heavens and a new earth, in
which righteousness will be at home. Therefore, dear friends, as you look for
these things, do everything you can to be found by him without spot or defect
and at peace. And think of our Lord's patience as deliverance, just as our dear
brother Sha'ul also wrote you, following the wisdom God gave him. II Peter 3:1-15
(CJB)
If the heavens will roar someday, what will it sound
like?
One opinion…
Roar of the Heavens: Surviving Hurricane Camille by
Stefan Bechtel
“So began the final and most destructive act of
Hurricane Camille, a storm so ferocious that scientists calculated the odds as
once in a thousand years. In 1969, meteorologists were yet to have satellite
and computer technology at their disposal, and the National Hurricane Center’s
director, Dr. Robert Simpson, could only rely on his instincts to predict
Camille’s track.
The Category Five storm, with wind gusts over 200
miles per hour, tore into the Mississippi/Alabama coast, erasing entire towns.
At a hurricane party on a rooftop a few miles from where Camille made landfall,
the nearly three-story tidal storm surge—the highest ever measured—collapsed
the entire building and swept 23 people to their deaths. Incredibly, the worst
was yet to come.”
One other opinion…
Big Bang Background Radiation—Is that
"Roar" of the Heavens Merely Laughter?
by Bert Thompson, Ph.D. & Brad Harrub, Ph.D.
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