In 2 Peter 3:8-10, Apostle Peter points to Christ's future "thousand years" Millennial reign of Revelation 20, showing that future "thousand years" period will be a LITERAL period of Christ's reign over all nations on earth. Peter also explains why... God is allowing that future literal "thousand years" period of literal reign by Jesus on earth over all nations that begins at His future 2nd coming.
2 Peter 3:8-10
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
That above statement by Peter is simple. To God a 'day' is like a thousand years. What 'day' might Peter be pointing to there? Keep reading to find out...
9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Mind you, that thousand years pointer from the previous verse is still in application here in this next verse. Peter is pointing to the future reign by Lord Jesus on earth with His elect over the unsaved nations. The Old Testament Scriptures point to it with Christ on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, so Peter knew about it, and what that future reign over the unsaved is for.
It is because in that future time, after Jesus has returned to this earth to take reign, God does not wish for any soul to perish, but to come to repentance and be saved. In that future "thousand years" reign by Christ and His elect over the unsaved nations, Satan will be locked in his pit prison. He won't be allowed to deceive the nations in that time. The unsaved nations will then have their first opportunity to actually hear and believe The Gospel with eyes to see, and ears to hear, and be saved. Then Satan will be loosed after that "thousand years" to test those.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
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To get details of what that future "day of the Lord" will involve, one must... study the Old Testament prophets, because that is where Apostle Peter got that from. That is the 'day' Peter was pointing to in verse 8 that one 'day' to God is like a thousand years. The "day of the Lord" simply begins... on the day of Christ's future return to this earth. And that is when Jesus' future reign over the unsaved nations begins, and lasts for one thousand years, as written in Revelation 20. His future reign goes past that thousand years of course, but the unbelievers do not, and that's the actual point of that literal period, those who perish at the end of it.
So do not allow Satan's host who push doctrines of men take the above Bible understanding away from you. Satan and his children of darkness don't like any ideas about Christ's future literal "thousand years" reign over the unsaved starting at His future return to earth.
Satan's host don't even like the idea of Lord Jesus' future RETURN TO THIS EARTH, to Jerusalem on earth, where He will reign from, as written in God's Word (Psalms 2; Zechariah 14). Satan and his children want this earth for themselves. That is why Satan even creates doctrines of men that moves Christ's elect Church off this earth, when God's Word shows we in Christ do NOT rapture to Heaven, but to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem on earth, WITH Lord Jesus, when His feet descend to earth and touch down at that Mount of Olives where He ascended to Heaven from.
2 Peter 3:8-10
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
That above statement by Peter is simple. To God a 'day' is like a thousand years. What 'day' might Peter be pointing to there? Keep reading to find out...
9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Mind you, that thousand years pointer from the previous verse is still in application here in this next verse. Peter is pointing to the future reign by Lord Jesus on earth with His elect over the unsaved nations. The Old Testament Scriptures point to it with Christ on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, so Peter knew about it, and what that future reign over the unsaved is for.
It is because in that future time, after Jesus has returned to this earth to take reign, God does not wish for any soul to perish, but to come to repentance and be saved. In that future "thousand years" reign by Christ and His elect over the unsaved nations, Satan will be locked in his pit prison. He won't be allowed to deceive the nations in that time. The unsaved nations will then have their first opportunity to actually hear and believe The Gospel with eyes to see, and ears to hear, and be saved. Then Satan will be loosed after that "thousand years" to test those.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
KJV
To get details of what that future "day of the Lord" will involve, one must... study the Old Testament prophets, because that is where Apostle Peter got that from. That is the 'day' Peter was pointing to in verse 8 that one 'day' to God is like a thousand years. The "day of the Lord" simply begins... on the day of Christ's future return to this earth. And that is when Jesus' future reign over the unsaved nations begins, and lasts for one thousand years, as written in Revelation 20. His future reign goes past that thousand years of course, but the unbelievers do not, and that's the actual point of that literal period, those who perish at the end of it.
So do not allow Satan's host who push doctrines of men take the above Bible understanding away from you. Satan and his children of darkness don't like any ideas about Christ's future literal "thousand years" reign over the unsaved starting at His future return to earth.
Satan's host don't even like the idea of Lord Jesus' future RETURN TO THIS EARTH, to Jerusalem on earth, where He will reign from, as written in God's Word (Psalms 2; Zechariah 14). Satan and his children want this earth for themselves. That is why Satan even creates doctrines of men that moves Christ's elect Church off this earth, when God's Word shows we in Christ do NOT rapture to Heaven, but to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem on earth, WITH Lord Jesus, when His feet descend to earth and touch down at that Mount of Olives where He ascended to Heaven from.