Critics and skeptics have ridiculed and scoffed at the idea of Christ’s return for 2000 years. The Bible says this would be the prevailing view prior to the Second Coming of the LORD Jesus Christ:
2 PETER 3:3-4
3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation."
They point out that Jesus said He would return “quickly” (REV 3:11; 22:7,12,20) but it’s been two thousand years already! What they fail to realize is that He was referring to the manner of His arrival, not a time duration.
“Quickly” as in “suddenly, without warning” (“like a thief in the night”; 1 THESS 5:2; 2 PET 3:10), or with the speed of lightning:
MATTHEW 24:27
For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. (See also LUKE 17:24).
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2 PETER 3:3-4
3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation."
They point out that Jesus said He would return “quickly” (REV 3:11; 22:7,12,20) but it’s been two thousand years already! What they fail to realize is that He was referring to the manner of His arrival, not a time duration.
“Quickly” as in “suddenly, without warning” (“like a thief in the night”; 1 THESS 5:2; 2 PET 3:10), or with the speed of lightning:
MATTHEW 24:27
For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. (See also LUKE 17:24).
