2 Peter 3:12

Believers are to look for and even hasten the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will be dissolved and the elements melt with fire. It matters because Christians are to eagerly anticipate, not dread, Christ's return.

Cross-references · 12

• 2 Pet 3:10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
• 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.
• 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.
• Titus 2:13looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;
• Isa 64:1–12Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence.
• 1 Cor 1:7–8so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Ps 50:3Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
• 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 6:13–14The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.
• Phil 1:6being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
• Isa 2:1–22This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
• Jude 1:21Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

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