Devastating Ignorance

This overview of the second main section of this chapter finds Peter focusing attention on the certainty that Christ is going to come again, and the equal certainty that the haters of Christ will attack this doctrine unmercifully. They will use their interpretations of the past to argue concerning the present and the future. Their conclusion is that there could not be a cataclysmic judgment in the future because there was not such a judgment at any time in the past. But Peter says that their ignorance is not a matter of lack of awareness. It is a matter of stubborn defiance and hatred of the truth. His point is that there was a world that was destroyed, and that there is a world that will be destroyed when the day of the Lord comes.