Please do not watch this Video if you are a Mocker or Scoffer of the Pretribulation Rapture. This will encourage my Brethren.
I want to Introduce you to Dr. Zola Levitt, whom the LORD called him HOME, via a Video that still is on the computer. This was a Program that I used to watch every week. It had a major influence on my Pre-Trib views. Just Click on the white Arrow on the Video.
A graveyard on Mount Zion is the setting for Zola’s teaching on the “catching up” of believers, the first End Times event on the prophetic calendar. From the studio, Zola and Dr. Tom McCall talk about the amazing surprise and the timing of the Rapture of the Church.
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Below are some of my Commentaries on 2 Pet 3:2-4
may be they too will encourage you.
14:2 The
Father's house refers to heaven, where there are many dwelling places. There is room there for all the redeemed.
If it were not so, the Lord
would have told them; He would not have them build on false hopes.
"I go to prepare a place for you" may have two meanings. The Lord Jesus went to Calvary to prepare a place for His own. It is through His atoning death that believers are assured a place there. But also the Lord went back to heaven to prepare a place. We do not know very much about this place, but we know that provision is being made for every child of God—"a prepared place for a prepared people!"
14:3 Verse
3 refers to the time when the Lord
will come back
again into the air, when those who have died in faith will be raised, when the living will be changed, and when all the blood-bought throng will be taken home to heaven (
1 Thess. 4:13-18;
1 Cor. 15:51-58). This is a personal, literal coming of Christ. As surely as He went away, He
will come again. His desire is to have His own with Him for all eternity.
Believer's Bible Commentary: A Thorough, Yet Easy-to-Read Bible Commentary That Turns Complicated Theology Into Practical Understanding.
14:2 mansions. Lit. dwelling places, rooms, or even apartments (in modern terms). All are in the large “Father’s house.”
14:2, 3 I go to prepare. Jesus’ departure would be for their advantage since He was going away to prepare a heavenly home for them and would return to take them so that they might be with Him. This is one of the passages that refers to the Rapture of the saints at the end of the age when Christ returns. The features in this description do not describe Christ coming to earth with His saints to establish His kingdom (
Rev. 19:11-15), but rather taking believers from earth to live in heaven. Since no judgment on the unsaved is described here, this is not the event of His return in glory and power to destroy the wicked (cf.
Matt. 13:36-43,
47-50). Rather, this describes His coming to gather His own who are alive and to raise the bodies of those who have died to take them all to heaven. This rapture event is also described in
1 Corinthians 15:51-54;
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. After being raptured, the church will celebrate the marriage supper (
Rev. 19:7-10), be rewarded (
1 Cor. 3:10-15;
4:5;
2 Cor. 5:9, 10), and later return to earth with Christ when He comes again to set up His kingdom (
Rev. 19:11-20:6).
The MacArthur Bible Commentary.
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts [
2Pet. 3:3].
"Knowing this first" -- this was something they were to know first of all.
"There shall come in the last days" -- these are the days in which you and I live, and they will continue on into the Great Tribulation period after the church is gone from the earth.
"Scoffers" will be the apostates whom he described so vividly back in chapter 2. These scoffers evidently will be members of churches, and many of them pastors, who will be "walking after their own lusts," their own desires, not attempting to follow the Word of God. You see, it is this type of person who attacks the truths of the Bible. If a man is willing to forsake his sins and is willing to receive Christ, God will make His Word real to him. Paul, writing in
2Corinthians 3, said that a veil is over their minds; but if their hearts will turn to God, the veil will be removed. Their problem is not intellectual; their problem is heart trouble. And so they put forward a false argument
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation [
2Pet. 3:4].
"Where is the promise of his coming?" In other words, they will say something like this, "Some of you premillennial folk have been saying for years that the Lord Jesus is going to come back and take the church out of the world, and then after a seven-year period of tribulation, He will come to the earth to establish His Kingdom. Well, where is He? Why hasn't He come?" They are going to scoff at it. The second coming of Christ will be denied -- not only by the atheist or Communist standing out yonder on a soap box, but it will also be denied by those who stand in the pulpit and profess to be believers.
Now what did the Old Testament prophets write about? They wrote about the coming of Christ to the earth to establish His Kingdom. What did the New Testament apostles write about? They wrote about Christ's coming to take the church out of the world and then, after the Great Tribulation, about His coming to the earth to establish His Kingdom. Notice that the Old Testament prophets did not write about the church -- not one of them did. They wrote only about His coming to earth to establish His Kingdom.
It was the Lord Jesus Himself who first revealed that He would be coming for His own. He said, as recorded in John, "...I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself..." (
John 14:2-3). The place He was going to prepare was not down here. It was not on the other side of the Mount of Olives -- if you doubt that, go look at it; it is a desolate place. Our Lord went back to heaven, and that is where He is preparing a place for us. And He promised to come back for us. In
1Thessalonians 4:17, we are told that we will meet Him in the air.
Let me repeat: The prophecy in the Old Testament of Christ's coming was to establish His Kingdom upon the earth; the prophecy in the New Testament of His coming was first to take His church out of the world and then to come to establish His Kingdom upon the earth
"For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." This is the "proof" which the scoffers will offer, and, by the way, it is the most prevalent argument given in our day. "The fathers" would refer all the way back to father Adam.
The scoffers adopt the doctrine of laissez faire or let's continue with the status quo. Nothing unusual has happened in the past. Things have just progressed along. Man has evolved, and things have come along gently and nicely in the past. Peter is going to say, "That's where you are absolutely wrong. If you think nothing has happened in the past, let me tell you about it!"
Thru The Bible with J. Vernon McGee.
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