Where Is The Promise Of His Coming?

WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING? (2 PETER 3)

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The future Queen of England, Princess Elizabeth, then just 19, and her sister Princess Margaret, 14, did an unthinkable thing when they joined thousands of revellers to gather in front of the royal residence on May 8 1945. The princesses did the hokey cokey and the Lambeth Walk, and took part in chants of "We want the King" at the Palace railings. They also danced the conga through the Ritz Hotel in nearby Piccadilly. As part of the official celebrations in 1945, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth made eight appearances on the Palace balcony in ten hours - on one occasion accompanied by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Elizabeth and Margaret themselves appeared six times with their parents throughout the day and evening.

Huge crowds gather at Trafalgar Square celebrate VE (Victory in Europe) Day in London, marking the end of the Second World War in Europe. In an unprecedented and spontaneous breach of royal protocol, they also hurried out of the Palace after dinner to join the crowds, accompanied by a group of Guards officers, who were friends of the princesses. It was Margaret's idea and the King and Queen agreed to the excursion, with the monarch writing in his diary that day of his daughters' lack of social life: "Poor darlings, they have never had any fun yet."

https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/royals/queen-elizabeth-sneaked-crowds-danced-to-celebrate-ve-day-a4435671.html

The shorter phrase “the day of the Lord” (v 10), instead of the longer version of “the day of the Lord Jesus,” aptly appears in the last chapter of 2 Peter, just as it appears the only time in Paul’s epistle in the last chapter of 1 Thessalonians 5, both epistles comparing the day of the Lord to a thief in the night (1 Thess 5:2). The last day is always singular in the Gospels (John 6:39, 40, 44, 54, 7:38, 11:24, 12:48), but plural from Acts on (Acts 2:17, 2 Tim 3:1, Heb 1:2, James 5:3, 2 Peter 3:3). The prophets describes the day of the Lord as the day of the Lord’s vengeance (Isa 34:8), great and very terrible (Joel 2:11), the day of the Lord's wrath and anger (Zeph 1:18-2:3), and the great and dreadful day of the Lord (Mal 4:5). Scoffers, however, asked the only question in 2 Peter 3, "Where is the promise of His coming?” (vv 3-4) All things continue as they are (v 4), as far back as creation. Al things are unchanged, unwelcome and unbearable for some.

What are we to beware of and watch for? How is the Lord coming? Is His coming a good day or a gloomy day for you? Why is the Lord’s coming slow and steady instead swift and speedy? How are we to prepare for His coming?

Be Sure and Strong

1 Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. 2 I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles. 3 First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation." 5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

The deadliest fires in Hong Kong since 2001 occurred last year (December 2020) when at least seven people from 8 to 48 were killed and 11 injured in a fire at an apartment building in Yau Ma Tei’s Nepalese community who were celebrating a Hindu festival as well as a birthday. The building lacked a sprinkler system.

https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-fires-carrie-lam-1f24e04baf8d99326e63c44b10d14d4d

On the night of the fire, one of the decorative festival lights set the wall near the door alight. The fire spread rapidly because of the sound-proof material that was used to line the wall of the dining area. The unlicensed restaurant did not have a fire extinguisher, and no emergency exits and no fire insurance.

The owner’s wife, a club manager and two employees were also among the dead. “As soon as the fire started, they told the women and children to go to the kitchen and storeroom, and tried to put out the flames themselves,” a relative of one of the dead said. Those who escaped jumped out of the windows to the street below, and some broke their legs. https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/7-nepalis-killed-in-hong-kong-fire/