Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
Peter gives us the chief thing to watch for: scoffers will arise in these last days, men who deride and ridicule the promise of Christ's return and the end of the world. They will plead clever objections against what Scripture foretells, though it required no special gift to foresee that contempt for God's word would abound among mankind.
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These mockers scoff at sin itself, make light of it, glory in it; they treat all religion as prejudice, state policy, cant, madness. They jeer at the godly, ridicule ministers, burlesque Scripture, and ultimately scoff at God Himself, at His persons, purposes, promises, and the blood and righteousness of Christ, which they trample under foot.
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Scoffers will grow bolder in the last days, not because the gospel is weak but because it cuts against the carnal mind, it demands self-denial and spiritual worship that men naturally despise. You must expect them and not be shaken, for they walk after their own lusts, not reason.
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Commenting on 2 Peter 3:3-7