Peace in Christ.
The world passes away…NOW….as God judges those on the outside world. The people of this world mortally die (perish) from off this earth under the wrath of God that arises (like the sun) upon all people.
But he that does the will of God ABIDES here in this world to the coming age in which the heavens and the earth will be free of His wrath. That person REMAINS here....alive and remaining just as Caleb who remained alive in the desert while the rest passed away.
1Jn 2:17 KJV
(17) And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Young's Literal Translation
and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain -- to the age.
The wrath of God IS REVEALED from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold down (suppress) the Truth in their unrighteousness. The understanding of the gospel of our Lord Jesus is being held down by men who are preaching themselves for their own earthly necessities….handling the Word of God deceitfully for their own gain.
Rom 1:18 KJV
(18) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
The gospel is hid to those “preachers” that are mortally perishing away from this earth under God’s wrath that they are still abiding under. They do not understand the gospel and so they are not preaching it with its true meaning to those that are being led astray by them.
2Co 4:3-5
(3) But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost (PERISHING):
(4) In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
(5) For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
The Lord is not willing that any should perish (mortally die from this earth under His wrath) but that all (His people) should come to repentance.
2Pe 3:9 KJV
(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.
He turns man to destruction and says “return, you children of men”….come to repentance. He is not willing that man should “perish” ( mortally destroyed under His wrath) but to come to repentance and have an age-lasting life ….to be delivered from the wrath to come by crossing from death unto life now in this earth.
His wrath on us (the house of God...the dwelling place) is described in Psalms 90. His wrath cuts down our mortal bodies. We flourish in the morning of our lives and grow up…but in the evening, we are cut down and wither (under the sun of His arising wrath).
Psa 90:3-7 KJV
(3) Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
(4) For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
(5) Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
(6) In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
(7) For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Our days of our years are 70…or maybe 80+. But we are soon cut off (from this earth) and fly away because of His wrath that comes upon us.
Psa 90:10-11 KJV
(10) The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
(11) Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
But this is the promise that He has promised us: an age-lasting life. We are delivered from that wrath to come by Jesus.
1Jn 2:25-26
(25) And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal (AGE-LASTING) life.
(26) These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
Jesus delivers us from the wrath to come….the cutting down of our mortal bodies from this earth. We shall abide here and not be removed.
1Th 1:10 KJV
(10) And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
We are to continue to mortally live here….abiding… until the redemption of our mortal body which happens at the “last trump”….and we enter into the coming age.
But some will hear the Word of Truth….the gospel of our mortal salvation….and will scoff “where is the promise of His coming”? Where is the promise of an age-lasting life for all have mortally died since the beginning of the creation?
Those who will continue to walk after their own lusts will not be able help themselves when they will hear the truth of the gospel of our Lord and Savior.
Their response will be exactly the same among all of them. It will be their default response. You will hear it over and over again from all of them. Where is this age-lasting life as it hasn’t happened yet? It has not been made manifest in this earth because of their unrighteousness which blinds them to the true gospel. They still abide in death…under the wrath of God…and have not passed from death unto life.
2Pe 3:3-4 KJV
(3) Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
(4) 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.
The “day of the Lord” in this context in 2nd Peter 3 speaks of our own personal death…the day the Lord comes to take us away from this earth…the day that we perish from this world. It comes as a thief in the night as we do not know when it will happen.
2Pe 3:9-10
(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.
The KJV is a horrible translation of 2nd Peter.
The heavens COME NEAR (not “pass away” as translated) to us in the day we “fly away” from this earth.
The Greek word is “parerchomai” which means to “come near” or “approach or arrive”. The heavens approach to take us away in the day of our mortal death. They come near with a great noise….that is, a whirring sound (rhoizēdon = a whir, whizzingly).
That “whir” is the sound of whirlwind.
The “elements” (the founding principles) that burn are the works of the church handwritings of ordinances. They do not save us from His wrath as they burn us up with the using up of them. We mortally perish with the using of them. They are “dissolved” from our lives by our departure from this earth. They were meaningless to keep and serve.
The earth burns up because we are removed from it. This is from the perspective of our mortal death. T
This earth remains….it is our mortal bodies that burn up from it under the wrath of God. We wither away and are cut down from it in death. Church works do not keep our mortal bodies here in this earth. They are “dissolved” as we shall no longer keep them when our mortal bodies are removed from here.
(10) But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away (come near) with a great noise (whirring sound =whirlwind), and the elements shall melt (that burn) with fervent heat (shall be dissolved), the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
As the passing by of a hurricane (whirlwind), so the wicked is not. The passing by of the heavens that approaches with a “whirring” sound comes to take the wicked away from this earth in the day of the Lord that comes to remove each of us because of ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold down the gospel of Truth.
But the righteous are left here in this earth until the coming age. The righteous is a “foundation” age-lasting.
Proverbs 10:25
Young's Literal Translation
As the passing by of a hurricane, So the wicked is not, And the righteous is a foundation age-during.
How many wish for the “day of the LORD” for themselves. They think it will be glorious time when they “get to Heaven”…. “what a rejoicing it will be”.
But not so. Why desire that day of the Lord for what end is it for/to you (singular)? It is darkness not light. It is not a day for rejoicing. It is a day of darkness and not light.
Amo 5:18-20 KJV
(18) Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
It comes with a “sting”…the sting of death…a realization we have died without knowing the true gospel of our Lord.
We have been “bit”…that is, STUNG…by the serpent who deceived us and we had mortally perished by believing in the false prophets version of the “gospel”.
(19) As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
(20) Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
We will then have the realization (the “sting” ) that we had been duped by the false prophets into serving the sin which led to our mortal death. The sting of our death is because of the sin we had served. The wages of the sin is the death….the death of the mortal body.
1Co 15:56 KJV
(56) The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
We had been serving IMAGES (idols)….the church handwriting of ordinances …whereby we had judged others (serving the sin unto death).
We must turn from images to serve the living and true God. Jesus delivers us from the wrath to come (our mortal death).
1Th 1:9-10 KJV
(9) For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
(10) And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
So where did 2nd Peter 3:10 come from? Elisha was allowed to see this manner of being removed from this earth as Elijah went up by a whirlwind into Heaven.
The heavens come with the sound of whir….as in a whirlwind…to take us away from this earth. This is the not the way we want to go there. We are “saved”…but only as by fire…by the wrath of God that burns us up so that our spirit is saved.
2Ki 2:11-12 KJV
(11) And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Elisha mourned this sight as he took hold of his clothes and rent them in 2 pieces.
(12) And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
Our works shall be burned up….and our mortal bodies also ((the temple of God is destroyed). We shall suffer loss….our souls and our mortal body…but our spirit shall be saved yet so as by fire.
1Co 3:15-17 KJV
(15) If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
(16) Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
(17) If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Rather it be this way….not seeing death at all and be transferred over in due time…to the vanishing point.
Heb 11:5 KJV
(5) By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
The world passes away…NOW….as God judges those on the outside world. The people of this world mortally die (perish) from off this earth under the wrath of God that arises (like the sun) upon all people.
But he that does the will of God ABIDES here in this world to the coming age in which the heavens and the earth will be free of His wrath. That person REMAINS here....alive and remaining just as Caleb who remained alive in the desert while the rest passed away.
1Jn 2:17 KJV
(17) And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Young's Literal Translation
and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain -- to the age.
The wrath of God IS REVEALED from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold down (suppress) the Truth in their unrighteousness. The understanding of the gospel of our Lord Jesus is being held down by men who are preaching themselves for their own earthly necessities….handling the Word of God deceitfully for their own gain.
Rom 1:18 KJV
(18) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
The gospel is hid to those “preachers” that are mortally perishing away from this earth under God’s wrath that they are still abiding under. They do not understand the gospel and so they are not preaching it with its true meaning to those that are being led astray by them.
2Co 4:3-5
(3) But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost (PERISHING):
(4) In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
(5) For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
The Lord is not willing that any should perish (mortally die from this earth under His wrath) but that all (His people) should come to repentance.
2Pe 3:9 KJV
(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.
He turns man to destruction and says “return, you children of men”….come to repentance. He is not willing that man should “perish” ( mortally destroyed under His wrath) but to come to repentance and have an age-lasting life ….to be delivered from the wrath to come by crossing from death unto life now in this earth.
His wrath on us (the house of God...the dwelling place) is described in Psalms 90. His wrath cuts down our mortal bodies. We flourish in the morning of our lives and grow up…but in the evening, we are cut down and wither (under the sun of His arising wrath).
Psa 90:3-7 KJV
(3) Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
(4) For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
(5) Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
(6) In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
(7) For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Our days of our years are 70…or maybe 80+. But we are soon cut off (from this earth) and fly away because of His wrath that comes upon us.
Psa 90:10-11 KJV
(10) The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
(11) Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
But this is the promise that He has promised us: an age-lasting life. We are delivered from that wrath to come by Jesus.
1Jn 2:25-26
(25) And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal (AGE-LASTING) life.
(26) These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
Jesus delivers us from the wrath to come….the cutting down of our mortal bodies from this earth. We shall abide here and not be removed.
1Th 1:10 KJV
(10) And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
We are to continue to mortally live here….abiding… until the redemption of our mortal body which happens at the “last trump”….and we enter into the coming age.
But some will hear the Word of Truth….the gospel of our mortal salvation….and will scoff “where is the promise of His coming”? Where is the promise of an age-lasting life for all have mortally died since the beginning of the creation?
Those who will continue to walk after their own lusts will not be able help themselves when they will hear the truth of the gospel of our Lord and Savior.
Their response will be exactly the same among all of them. It will be their default response. You will hear it over and over again from all of them. Where is this age-lasting life as it hasn’t happened yet? It has not been made manifest in this earth because of their unrighteousness which blinds them to the true gospel. They still abide in death…under the wrath of God…and have not passed from death unto life.
2Pe 3:3-4 KJV
(3) Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
(4) 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.
The “day of the Lord” in this context in 2nd Peter 3 speaks of our own personal death…the day the Lord comes to take us away from this earth…the day that we perish from this world. It comes as a thief in the night as we do not know when it will happen.
2Pe 3:9-10
(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.
The KJV is a horrible translation of 2nd Peter.
The heavens COME NEAR (not “pass away” as translated) to us in the day we “fly away” from this earth.
The Greek word is “parerchomai” which means to “come near” or “approach or arrive”. The heavens approach to take us away in the day of our mortal death. They come near with a great noise….that is, a whirring sound (rhoizēdon = a whir, whizzingly).
That “whir” is the sound of whirlwind.
The “elements” (the founding principles) that burn are the works of the church handwritings of ordinances. They do not save us from His wrath as they burn us up with the using up of them. We mortally perish with the using of them. They are “dissolved” from our lives by our departure from this earth. They were meaningless to keep and serve.
The earth burns up because we are removed from it. This is from the perspective of our mortal death. T
This earth remains….it is our mortal bodies that burn up from it under the wrath of God. We wither away and are cut down from it in death. Church works do not keep our mortal bodies here in this earth. They are “dissolved” as we shall no longer keep them when our mortal bodies are removed from here.
(10) But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away (come near) with a great noise (whirring sound =whirlwind), and the elements shall melt (that burn) with fervent heat (shall be dissolved), the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
As the passing by of a hurricane (whirlwind), so the wicked is not. The passing by of the heavens that approaches with a “whirring” sound comes to take the wicked away from this earth in the day of the Lord that comes to remove each of us because of ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold down the gospel of Truth.
But the righteous are left here in this earth until the coming age. The righteous is a “foundation” age-lasting.
Proverbs 10:25
Young's Literal Translation
As the passing by of a hurricane, So the wicked is not, And the righteous is a foundation age-during.
How many wish for the “day of the LORD” for themselves. They think it will be glorious time when they “get to Heaven”…. “what a rejoicing it will be”.
But not so. Why desire that day of the Lord for what end is it for/to you (singular)? It is darkness not light. It is not a day for rejoicing. It is a day of darkness and not light.
Amo 5:18-20 KJV
(18) Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
It comes with a “sting”…the sting of death…a realization we have died without knowing the true gospel of our Lord.
We have been “bit”…that is, STUNG…by the serpent who deceived us and we had mortally perished by believing in the false prophets version of the “gospel”.
(19) As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
(20) Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
We will then have the realization (the “sting” ) that we had been duped by the false prophets into serving the sin which led to our mortal death. The sting of our death is because of the sin we had served. The wages of the sin is the death….the death of the mortal body.
1Co 15:56 KJV
(56) The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
We had been serving IMAGES (idols)….the church handwriting of ordinances …whereby we had judged others (serving the sin unto death).
We must turn from images to serve the living and true God. Jesus delivers us from the wrath to come (our mortal death).
1Th 1:9-10 KJV
(9) For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
(10) And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
So where did 2nd Peter 3:10 come from? Elisha was allowed to see this manner of being removed from this earth as Elijah went up by a whirlwind into Heaven.
The heavens come with the sound of whir….as in a whirlwind…to take us away from this earth. This is the not the way we want to go there. We are “saved”…but only as by fire…by the wrath of God that burns us up so that our spirit is saved.
2Ki 2:11-12 KJV
(11) And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Elisha mourned this sight as he took hold of his clothes and rent them in 2 pieces.
(12) And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
Our works shall be burned up….and our mortal bodies also ((the temple of God is destroyed). We shall suffer loss….our souls and our mortal body…but our spirit shall be saved yet so as by fire.
1Co 3:15-17 KJV
(15) If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
(16) Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
(17) If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Rather it be this way….not seeing death at all and be transferred over in due time…to the vanishing point.
Heb 11:5 KJV
(5) By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
