2 Peter 3:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

The heavens

Against

And perdition

Revelation 17:8

General references

Psalm 114:4

Psalm 136:6

Proverbs 27:12

Bible References

The heavens

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.

May our God come and not keep silence;

Fire devours before Him,

And it is very tempestuous around Him.

“Even they will perish, but You endure;
And all of them will wear out like a garment;
Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed.

“Lift up your eyes to the sky,
Then look to the earth beneath;
For the sky will vanish like smoke,
And the earth will wear out like a garment
And its inhabitants will die in like manner;
But My salvation will be forever,
And My righteousness will not wane.

“Therefore wait for Me,” declares the Lord,
“For the day when I rise up as a witness.
Indeed, My decision is to gather nations,
To assemble kingdoms,
To pour out on them My indignation,
All My burning anger;
For all the earth will be devoured
By the fire of My zeal.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

“Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;

dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea.

Against

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.

But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment.

Any place that does not receive you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake the dust off the soles of your feet for a testimony against them.”

By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.

And perdition

But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

in no way alarmed by your opponents—which is a sign of destruction for them, but of salvation for you, and that too, from God.

Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the

apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

“The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and

go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come.

General references

The mountains skipped like rams,
The hills, like lambs.

To Him who spread out the earth above the waters,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting;

A prudent man sees evil and hides himself,
The naive proceed and pay the penalty.