PT-3 “The Assurance of Divine Judgment” (2 Peter 3:10)

 

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/22/2026 8:35 PM

My Worship Time                                           Focus:  PT-3 “The Assurance of Divine Judgment”

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                                    Reference:  2 Peter 3:10

            Message of the verse: “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.”

            I want you to remember that this verse, first of all, is a very important verse in the Word of God, and also I remind you that I am quoting from John MacArthur’s commentary, and also adding my thoughts, along with looking up most of the verse references he has in his commentary, and because of the importance of this verse he has many, many verse references, in fact I will begin this SD with some more verse references.

“And distant eschatological judgments (Joel 2:30-32; 3:14; Zech. 14:1; Mal. 4:1, 5).”

(Joel 2:30-32; 3:14; Zech. 14:1; Mal. 4:1, 5)

“30  "And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. 31  The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. 32  And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls.”

“14  Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.”

“1 ¶  Behold, a day is coming for the LORD, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst.”

“  1 ¶  "For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.”

“5  "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.”

Six times they call it ‘the day of doom’ and four times ‘the day of vengeance.’  The New Testament writers name it a day of ‘wrath,’ ‘visitation,’ and ‘the great day of God, the Almighty.’ (Rev. 6:14).”

(Rev. 6:14)

“14  The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.”

“These are horrifying judgments from God (cf. Joel 2:30-31; 2 Thess. 1:7-10) rendered because of the world’s overwhelming sinfulness.”

(cf. Joel 2:30-31; 2 Thess. 1:7-10)

“30  "And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. 31  The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.”

“7  and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels 8  in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9  They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10  when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.”

            “Peter described the day of the Lord as arriving like a thief, meaning that it will be unexpected, without warning, and disastrous for the unprepared.  The apostle Paul used the same comparison when he wrote to the Thessalonians:  ‘For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night’ (1 Thess. 5:2).

            “With the culmination of the final phrase of the day of the Lord, the heavens will pass away with a roar—a universal upheaval that Jesus Himself predicted in the Olivet Discourse:  ‘Heaven and earth will pass away’ (Matt. 24:35).  Heavens refer to the visible, physical universe of interstellar and intergalactic space.  Like Christ, Peter foresaw the disintegration of the entire universe in an instant ‘uncreation,’ not by any naturalistic scenario, but solely by God’s omnipotent intervention.”

            It looks like in tomorrow evening’s SD that I will be able to finish this section on 2 Peter 3:10, and it is my hope that all who read these SD’s on this great verse will have a good understand of how the universe will be destroyed, and remember this includes the heaven that God is in right now.  Some may wonder why that will be destroyed, and the answer is that Satan and some of his unholy angels have been there.

1/22/2026 9:46 PM