"Jesus Is Coming!" Series

As Christians, if we have been in the Word as we should and submitting ourselves to sound Biblical teaching, we know these things Peter has reiterated throughout this letter.

But we need to be stirred up. We need to be awakened by having the truth of God’s Word concerning our eternal security, holy living and staying alert against the enemy’s attacks paraded before our eyes and our minds and taken to our hearts, often.

A MATTER OF PRIORITY

Not all false teachers deny the second coming of Christ. There are those who even teach the coming rapture and the Great Tribulation, but so much of their doctrine is demonic it makes one wonder why they are not trembling in dread of having to face Him.

Others teach that He has already returned. The practitioners of the Baha’i cult even teach that not only has He returned, but He has returned numerous times. He just pops in for a visit once in a while.

Just surfing the web a little bit I discovered that some guy named Harold Camping has been teaching since 2004 that Jesus has already returned, invisibly, and is judging the churches. Another couple with their own heretical website is teaching the following:

“The return of Christ with its complete destruction of the world, so widely speculated on, is not true. Rather, the return of Christ is to the hearts of individual believers who have prepared the way for him to return to them.”

www.hallvworthington.com HERESY ALERT! Reader beware.

They obviously do not read the Bible, since the declaration of Christ’s Apostles can hardly be called ‘speculation’.

However there are many false teachers who deny the imminent return of Christ, and that should come as no surprise. If He is not coming back then that frees them to continue their lifestyle of sensuality, greed, deceit and self-will with no fear of retribution.

As has already been stated in a previous sermon, not all false teachers are religious. Anyone who, declaring authority to speak on any basis, whether science, medicine, their own intrinsic wisdom or whatever, denies that Christ is coming back, is a false teacher.

Peter here calls them mockers. They come with their mocking, foolishly declaring to be true what is false, and declaring to be false that which is true, simply because in their sinful thinking that is the way they want it to be.

People in secular professional fields such as medicine, law, engineering and so forth would be appalled at the very thought of someone untrained and unlicensed in their field presuming to speak authoritatively and intelligently on the subject. They would challenge that person’s authority to speak and quickly shut them down when they discover the person has no schooling in their field of endeavor.

Yet those same people, knowing nothing of the Bible and unwilling to either read it or be taught about it presume to speak authoritatively in their denial of Jesus, His Deity, His virgin birth, His resurrection and His Second Coming, even rudely and openly mocking the person who believes and has studied these things thoroughly.