Scoffers beware in talking down on the Rapture of the Church!!! 2Pet.3:3-5 says “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lusts. And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? (Peter says) For this they willingly are ignorant of…” Spurgeon says about scoffers “Every time a blasphemer opens his mouth to deny the truth of revelation, he will help to confirm us in our conviction of the very truth which he denies. The Holy Ghost told us, by the pen of Peter, that it would be so; and now we see how truly he wrote.” F. B. Myer wrote on 2Pet.3:1-9 saying “Longsuffering Delay. Apparently, there was a well-grounded fear that the church would relax her attitude of expectancy and gave credence to the materialistic philosophy of the age.”

The scoffers message is “Where is the promise of His coming?” To the carnal thinking mind, Christians have talked about Jesus coming for two thousand years and He still has not come back yet.
With the Lord’s help, may I stir up your pure mind by way of remembrance. It is true, the Lord has not come back yet, and that at the present, all things do continue as they were from the beginning, but this is all because of v.9 his “longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” V.8 says “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. You may scoff if you choose, but the scriptures teach, that God has a week of time. Two days for Adam to Abraham, and two days from Abraham to Christ, and two days allotted to the church age, (Hos.6:1-2).

So, scoffers beware “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise…” he’s coming back for those who have not “relax attitude of expectancy” (Heb.9:28 “…and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” Scoffers beware of being found as the evil servant, Matt.24:48-51 “But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My Lord delayeth his coming: And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and eat and drink with the drunken; The Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him; and in and hour that he is not ware of, And shall cut him asunder (off) and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Did you know that Jesus tells, when He is coming, Matt.24:44 “Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man cometh.” I’m asking you, as Paul asked them in 2Cor.13:5 “to examine yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves…” You may ask what it is you want me to prove, if you are still, “earnestly contending for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” You will be greeting brothers and sisters as they did in the early church. 1Cor.16:22 says “If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, Maranatha. (Let him be accursed, our Lord cometh).

You have a choice, to believe the scoffers, who say “Where is the promise of his coming? Or you can be lazy and not pray and ask the teacher, the Holy Ghost who has come to lead us and guide us into all truth, show you the blessed hope, (1Thess.4:13-18) of Jesus coming for his bride, in the clouds, and then coming back seven years later to set up his millennial kingdom. Yes in spite of the scoffers (who are now confirming this prophecy) Jesus is coming very soon. (2Tim.4:8 says “Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them that love his appearing.”)

Scoffers do you have an ear to hear, what the scripture says, “unto them also that love his appearing.” The distinctive mark of both OT and NT saints were the longing to be in the Lord’s presence. So if I were you, I would not relax in expectancy, in fact, I would be compelling everyone possible, and telling them as the early church, Maranatha (the Lord cometh).