There is no shortage of tribulation and trouble in the world around us. There are movies, TV, and books filled with speculation about an apocalypse. And if that’s not enough, there are preachers filling the airwaves and churches with plenty of preaching about the “end times.”
It’s no wonder that it’s so easy to get bogged down in the harshness of life and scared about the end. BUT… God is no deadbeat father. He doesn’t give up on or abandon His Creation. He is our good Father.
If you look at the Bible, starting in 2 Peter 3:10, it addresses the coming of “the Day of the Lord.” God’s Word tells us that everything evil—everything that is anti-God, unrighteous, and wicked—will be destroyed.
Although that may sound scary, we are His children and He gives us assurance and hope. In verse 13 it says, “in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.”
In other words, you are born again in Christ. REMADE, not destroyed. You can look forward to the changes that will be made at the end to bring about the new heaven and new earth. All you have to do is “make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace” with God, living “holy and godly lives” (verses 12-13).
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.
11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives
12 as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat.
13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
14 So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him.
15 Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
04:44There’ll be trouble, but our God always comes and restores. He never gives up on Creation. He’s not a deadbeat dad who abandons His House or what He created.
08:55If you’re born again, God didn’t destroy you to get your born again. He didn’t destroy all the sinners and get some new people. God didn’t destroy you. He remade you.
12:05The more I walk with Jesus, the more I read the Word, the less I need a rapture, the more I just need to walk with Him.
12:33I look forward to the day when all the elements of evil are burned up in heat, and we have a new heaven and a new earth and righteous reigns. Now that’s revival.
