The Future
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. 16 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
17 Therefore, dear friends, since you already know this, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your secure position. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.
2 Peter 3:15-18

After Jesus left the Disciples, they expected Him to return soon. But as time passed, people began to doubt. In 2 Peter 3, Peter writes about the Last Days and warns us to be on our guard. The Lord is patient, but the promises in the Bible will happen.
Christians, therefore, need to be aware of both the past and the future. Each of us exists between a past before we knew Christ and then came to Christ, and a future in which we become like Christ. The world also exists between the past and the future. The past has the creation, in which God created the world; the Fall, in which people sinned and turned away from God; the Old Testament times, in which God chose a race of people to be His; and the first coming of Christ.
We now live in the church age, but there is a future described the Bible. The future contains the rapture described in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, and the tribulation described in Matthew 24:21, a time of “great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now – and never to be equaled again.” Christ will come again to bind Satan for 1,000 years after which Satan will be set free for a time of final rebellion before his final defeat and the final judgment. The last enemy to be destroyed is death (1 Corinthians 15:25-26).
Some people look at the wars, pollution and climate change in the world today and think that the Last Days must be coming soon with. Perhaps, but people have thought this before. As the year 1,000 AD approached, many people did not want to work or plant crops because they expected Jesus to come soon. In the 14th century, the Black Death in Europe convinced many people that the end must be near. But still the Lord’s Coming was delayed.
Peter tells us that the Lord’s patience in coming is an opportunity for salvation to many and he calls us to be wise and wary of false teaching. Because the Lord will come.
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Prayer:
• Are you prepared for the coming of our Lord?
• Are you growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ?
Pray that God will God will give you Wisdom to stay true to our Lord.