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Mockery of Scripture. Dismissal of Christ’s return. Confidence that everything will continue as it always has.
The Bible said this would happen. Not as a minor detail, but as a defining mark of the last days.
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The Atmosphere of the End Times
2 Timothy 3:1–5 “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self… proud, arrogant… lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God…”
This is the soil where scoffing grows. When self becomes ultimate, truth becomes optional. When pleasure is elevated, accountability becomes offensive.
Scoffing is not merely intellectual doubt, it is moral resistance to a holy God.
Truth Rejected, Myths Embraced
2 Timothy 4:3–4 “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching… and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.”
It is not just rejection, it is replacement. People exchange truth for what feels better, what affirms them, what removes conviction.
And when truth confronts them again, the response is not humility—it is ridicule.
An Ancient Voice Still Speaking
Isaiah 5:18–19 “Let him be quick, let him speed his work that we may see it… let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near…”
Different generation. Same defiance.
“Let Him act now.”
“Prove it.”
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The Root: Willful Blindness
2 Peter 3:5 “They deliberately overlook this fact…”
This is not honest doubt. It is chosen blindness.
Scoffers are not lacking evidence—they are resisting its implications.
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The Pattern They Ignore
God has judged the world before. From Genesis 6–7, the flood stands as a historical warning: judgment delayed is not judgment denied.
Scoffers dismiss the past because it threatens their present.
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The Days of Noah Return
Luke 17:26–30 “Just as it was in the days of Noah… they were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage… until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all…”
This is the deception of the last days: Not chaos, but normalcy. Not panic, but indifference. Life continues… until suddenly, it doesn’t.
Two Witnesses: The Scoffers Foretold
2 Peter 3:3–4 “Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires…”
Jude 18 “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
This is not one voice, it is a confirmed pattern.
Scoffing is prophecy being fulfilled in real time. This is not honest doubt. It is chosen blindness.
As C. S. Lewis observed: “A man cannot be made to see a thing which he does not wish to see.”
Scoffers are not lacking evidence, they are resisting its implications.
The same Word that predicted scoffers also predicted the King’s return.
Prophetic Certainty Scoffers increase. Truth stands. The timeline moves.
Revelation 22:12 “Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me…”
The question is not whether He will come. He has already spoken.
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The Final Word
And Scripture leaves us with this—not speculation, but certainty:
2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”
His delay is not absence. It is mercy.
Every day that passes is not proof that He won’t come— it is proof that He is still calling.
But mercy has a horizon.
