You ignored all the points I made. So much for any concept of "not through the lens of any preconception".
Not ignoring....just making the point that you are disconnecting that verse of the "day of God" from the context of the whole passage to try and make it fit your belief, rather than just letting it say what it says. Revelation needs to be understood from a foundation of all the scriptures that came before it, rather than that we work backwards from Revelation to try to make the earlier scrips try to fit how the modern church is seeing Rev from a "dispensationalist" point of view. Try to look at 2 Peter 3 with fresh eyes, without any reference to Rev......Rev hadn't been written yet when 2Peter 3 was written (and 2Peter 3 agrees with the even earlier scrips of the old testament as it even mentions at the beginning of the passage). Though I can't as yet parse (rightly divide) everything that is written in Revelation I'm thoroughly convinced and often see in various places that if/when Revelation is understood properly it reiterates and doesn't contradict the earlier scriptures.
Rev 16:12-16
And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
There above we see another reference to the day of God….and it is tied in with the beast and false prophet and Jesus coming as a thief and the final battle……..those things do not happen at the end of a future literal 1000 year reign, but at the end of this age.
Just think and consider (with fresh objective eyes and putting Rev aside for a moment), in 2 Peter 3, what need have we to look for and haste unto the coming of a future day of God a thousand years after we've already gone to be with the Lord? And why would we need to heed what manner of persons we ought to be if the world burns up a thousand years after we have died and been resurrected or raptured to be with the Lord? Are we being told to heed what manner of persons ought we to be after we've gone to be with the Lord, or in this life and this age now?
2Pe 3:10-12
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.
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
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