2nd Book of Peter, chapter 3, verses 1-13.
1 This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, 2 that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, 3 knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. 4 They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5 For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, 6 and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. 7 But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
8 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! 13 But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
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Peter reminds us that this world is going to burn someday, and it won’t be “global warming.” There will not be a gradual melting of the polar ice caps that brings a deadly flood. It will be sudden and a clear sign that judgment is coming for the ungodly. Just as it was in the days of Noah, people will be eating and drinking, buying and selling, getting married and planning their future, and the end will come. (Luke 17:26-35).
Today we are sold a false apocalypse, one that mankind can control. They say we are bringing on the end by sinning against the planet. We must arrest human freedom and human flourishing and human reproduction to save the remnant that will inherit a socialist workers paradise. There is no God in their gospel. And to those who claim that there is, he is a weak spectator, scolding us for having prosperity.
The false gospel of the climate alarmist and the social justice warrior exists because the church was satisfied with compromise. We opted out of the public square, keeping the word of God inside the church, and sending our children out to be reprogrammed by the culture of the unbelievers. Now we have a generation that does not know the Lord, and we are being overrun by the wicked. We must challenge the culture, not hide from it. We must speak to it, not just complain about it. The fire of God will come eventually, whether we are ready or not.