Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 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 the creation. (KJV)– 2 Peter 3:3-4
OK! The year 2000 has finally arrived. The end of the world did not begin on that fanciful/frightful moment of midnight Millennium Eve. In the light of the morning, all still seems to be the way it was. Business as usual. Nothing new. Nothing different. Right?
Well, not exactly. The scoffers of religion are now going to have a kind of field day against all believers. Judgment seems to be an unreality. Evil seems to still exist all around the world, and now one has pulled the cosmic plug out of the wall of existence. We eat. We drink. We marry. We bury. We continue on. And the scoffers will say ‘See we told you so! We told you that there is no Judgment Day!’
And now the unbelievers will begin to build ‘a new world order’ in more earnest. And now the greedy money-making conquerors will begin to pull the net of global economy together even tighter. And now the doubters and the skeptics will be able to breath a little better when they sleep at night; not that they would admit that they had some troublesome nights as the clock ticked down. And to quote a Christmas song ‘All is calm, all is bright…’ But is it?
God sits on His throne silently watching. He waits. He has His chariots ready, and He has His weapons on board. He has His blessings near the door waiting for the messengers who will deliver them to arrive. He is patient. He is loving waiting with long-suffering of Heart. NOW He will see what mankind will do!
If humanity dives deeply into the gutter of depravity then He will come ‘as a thief in the night’ to them. If the saints draw closer to Him, then He will come as a Father to them.
BUT BE ASSURED, NOTHING IS TRULY CONTINUING ON AS IT WAS BEFORE “Y2K”. The clock of creation, and the Creator, is clicking — and IT is programmed to be ‘Right On Time’. Prophecy will be fulfilled. Wait and Watch AND PRAY.
Original Copyright: © Anthony J. Massotti, Th.M. 1/2/2000