2 Peter 3:10
Greek Text— 2 Peter 3:10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
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The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says Yahweh, “so your offspring and your name shall remain.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:
I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!
Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.
But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.
Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.
The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a garment does.
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”
Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.
Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”
For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.
“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”
All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.
But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.
For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.
The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.
Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand:
The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.
“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.
The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.
“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
for as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part under the sky, shines to another part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day.
each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.
are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
All of Mount Sinai smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice and the earth melted.
“Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says Yahweh, “which destroys all the earth. I will stretch out my hand on you, roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain.
You have not gone up into the gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in Yahweh’s day.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.
“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.
But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’
“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.
Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.