Study 2 Does Jesus have any promise pertain to His coming?
@Livingwater Study 2 THE PROMISE OF THE COMING OF CHRIST All unfulfilled prophecy in the Word of God is bound up with the personal, bodily and visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in this study we shall consider the urgent question asked in 2 Peter 3:3-4. This is the question of the scoffer, but we shall ask it earnestly and reverently, and as we do so we shall be impressed with the weight of testimony which scripture gives to the certainty of our Lord’s second coming. It will be well, however, for us to look at the context in which this question is found. In 2 Peter 3:3-4, we read of something we are to know and be sure about, and it is something which relates particularly to the last days, the closing days of the dispensation of grace, the period immediately prior to the Lord’s return. We are to expect that there will be scoffers in the last days. Why? Because everyone who scoffs at the glorious truth of the return of Christ is fulfilling this prophecy! Peter tells us