2 Peter 3:10

The day of the Lord will come unexpectedly like a thief, when the heavens pass away, the elements dissolve, and the earth and its works are laid bare. It matters because Christ's return and final judgment are certain and sudden.

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• Rev 21:1I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
• Matt 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
• 2 Pet 3:7But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
• Rev 16:15“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”
• Isa 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment; and its inhabitants will die in the same way: but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
• 1 Th 5:2For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
• 2 Pet 3:12looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
• Mark 13:31Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
• Isa 34:4All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
• Rev 3:3Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
• Ps 102:26They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
• Luke 12:39But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.
• Nah 1:5The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.
• Matt 24:42–43Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
• Rev 20:11I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
• Joel 2:31The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
• Heb 1:11–12They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a garment does.
• Amos 9:5For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.
• 1 Cor 5:5are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
• Isa 24:19The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.
• Ps 97:5The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
• Mic 1:4The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.
• Joel 2:1Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand:
• Amos 9:13“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.
• Joel 1:15Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
• Isa 2:12For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:
• Joel 3:14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.
• Ps 46:6The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.
• Mal 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
• Rom 8:20For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
• Jude 1:6Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
• 2 Cor 1:14as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

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