They will scoff because Christ’s promised return has not yet happened, and the world continues on as if nothing will ever change. 2 Peter 3:113 includes Peter’s dismantling of the arguments of the false teachers. The Lord assures His children that He will not forget them: “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). 2 Peter 3:8, CSB: 'Dear friends, dont overlook this one fact: With the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.' Context Summary. They failed to realize that God is almighty and unchangeable and that His plans will all be fulfilled in due time. The skeptics supposed that God’s plans had been hindered or changed because Christ had not yet returned. But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has Those who accepted his message were. It is simply showing man’s impatience in comparison to God’s patience. But this verse in 2 Peter 3:8 is not speaking of Bible prophecy. There is a Bible rule for interpreting prophetic time in the scriptures called the day-for-a-year principle (Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6). 9 that He is “long-suffering to us-ward.” With God, time is not measured the same way as with humans. Verse 7 deals with the fact that God is patiently awaiting the Day of Judgment, and v. On the other hand, Peter is not here setting up a prophetic yardstick for computing time periods. To those who are patient, Peter is saying that time is relative. These doubted whether God would fulfill His promises connected with the end of the world saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation” (2 Peter 3:4).
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In stating this truth, Peter is challenging the skeptical impatience of the scoffers who were judging God by their own limited standards.
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He has no need for our limited concept of time, and we cannot confine Him or His ideas to our scale of days and years. With Him there is no past, no future all things are eternally present. Peter is sharing this from Psalms 90:4, “For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.” God is eternal ( Deuteronomy 33:27). “But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Peter 3:8).