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NASB | 2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will vanish with a [mighty and thunderous] roar, and the [material] elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and the works that are on it will be burned up. |
Subject: Why does Jesus come as a thief? |
Bible Note: Greetings Mark, With reference to your pointing out the Lord’s wrath as you stated: “Therefore, they are not equal to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, nor are they equal to the flood. Therefore, this argument does not show a requirment that the trumpet and bowl judgments only following Jesus' second coming.” I think that many try to read more into the verses about Noah and Lot then are actually taught. Luke 17:26-30 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. Now from reading those verses can we “assume” that someone will be building an ark when it happens or gathering feed for all the animals? Maybe everyone will be wearing sandals and there won’t be any cars trucks or planes or if one looks back they could be turned into a pillar of salt, I gest? I believe the emphasis expressed in the previous verses is on the fact that God’s wrath will occur on the “very same day”; the day that God’s believers are delivered to safety and or removed from harm before God strikes, nothing more nothing less. CDBJ |