Third, the delay causes more time for sinners to be saved and enter the kingdom. 2 Peter 3:3-9 speaks of the time in which we live, wherein “scoffers” will say “where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” In other words, “you Christians say Christ is going to return soon, yet year after year goes by and all things continue just the same, so you must be wrong, for what you say seems ridiculous.” But then Peter reminds us in verse 9 why the seeming failure on the part of God to fulfill what Christians keep heralding as a promise of Jesus’ return: “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” The Lord, in His mercy, delays, that more people might be reached with “saving news” of His glorious gospel and receive life unending.
Continued on next posting. . .
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