God Warns. Sin Will Destroy You. Repent While There Is Time.

Oh where, oh where have the warnings gone
Oh where, oh where can they be?

How can so many teachers be silent
Are they simply unable to see?

How can they preach and tickle the ears
And not warn sinners to flee?

What will the teachers hear on that day
Will they be told depart from me?

Brothers and sisters, Peter warns us. God warns us. Do not look to man. Countless teachers are tickling the ears of their hearers. Why? Mostly, the fault lies with the hearers as they raise up such teachers. Just look at Joel Osteen, the poster child for "make them feel good on their way to hell".

• "For the time will come when people will not tolerate healthy doctrine, but with itching ears will surround themselves with teachers who cater to their people's own desires." 2 Timothy 4:3 ISV

2 Peter 3 ISV 

Be Ready for the Day of the Lord

1Dear friends, this is now the second of two lettersa I am writing to you, in which I have been trying to stimulate your pure minds by reminding you 2to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the commandment of our Lord and Savior spokenb through your apostles.

3First of all you must understand this: In the last days mockers will come and, following their own desires, will ridicule usc 4by saying, “What happened to the Messiah’sd promise to return? Ever since our ancestors died,e everything continues as it did from the beginning of creation.” 5But they deliberately ignore the fact that long ago the heavens existed and the earth was formed by God’s word out of water and with water, 6by which the world at that time was deluged with water and destroyed. 7Now by that same word, the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire and are being kept for the day when ungodly people will be judged and destroyed.

8Don’t forget this fact, dear friends: With the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day. 9The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some people understand slowness, but is being patient with you. He does not want anyone to perish, but wantsf everyone to repent. 10But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that dayg the heavens will disappear with a roaring sound, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done on it will be exposed.

11Since everything will be destroyed in this way, think of the kind of holy and godly people you ought to be 12as you look forward to and hasten the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will be set ablaze and dissolved and the elements will melt with fire. 13But in keeping with his promise, we are looking forward to new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.

14So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to have the Lordh find you at peace and without spot or fault. 15Think of our Lord’s patience as facilitating salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him. 16He speaks about this subject in all his letters. Some things in them are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, leading to their own destruction, as they do the rest of the Scriptures.

17And so, dear friends, since you already know these things, continuously be on your guard not to be carried away by the deception of lawless people. Otherwise, you mayi fall from your secure position. 18Instead, continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah.j Glory belongs to him both now and on that eternal day! Amen.k