Read Isaiah 40:1-11; Mark 1:1-8; 2 Peter 3:8-18

To understand our New Testament reading from 2 Peter 3:10–14 and to understand the season of Advent and all things apocalyptic, we need to realize that there are false teachers that saturate their false teaching through the media, academia, and once-trusted institutions, and they all in lockstep 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” (2 Peter 3:4)

Therefore, the false teachers of this age reject the reality of the second coming. They deny that with the coming of the Lord, there will be a world-transforming upheaval. They reject it as unbelievable and unimaginable. Because for thousands and thousands of years, the world has gone on just the way it did from the beginning. They tell us that nature is steady and constant. And this thought of an inbreaking of the Son of God and a transformation of this created order is out of the question.