1. What is the main thrust of 2 Peter 3?
2. In 2 Peter 3, Peter presents a single motivation for Christians to remain faithful to God. What is that motivation?
3. What did Peter mean when he said that some scoffers and mockers were “willfully” ignorant?
4. Of what were the scoffers (mentioned in 2 Peter 3:3) ignorant?
5. What did God, or Christ, have to say about the specific time that Christ would return?
6. The context of 2 Peter 3:8 is not placed within the Genesis account of creation, but in the context of something else. What is that “something else”?
7. What was Peter’s point in 2 Peter 3:8 (“Beloved,
do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as one day”)?
8. What is one good reason why
God has delayed Christ’s return to Earth?
9. What is the connection
between Luke 19:10 and 1 Timothy 1:15?
10. What is the connection
between 1 Thessalonians 5:2 and 2 Peter 3:10?
11. According to 2 Peter 3, when
the Lord’s Second Coming takes place, what will be the fate of the Earth?
12. What is the connection between
the messages of 2 Peter 3 and Mark 13:35?
13. According to 2 Peter 3, the
Earth has already undergone one destruction (of its people). What was that
destruction?
14. In Genesis 9:13-15, God made
a promise that He never would destroy the Earth again in the same way that He
had destroyed it then. What was the sign of that promise?
15. According to 1 Thessalonians
4:16-18, what will happen to the Christians who are alive when Christ returns?
16. Where is the Christian’s
“real” citizenship? Support your answer with Scripture.
17. In John 14:1-4, Jesus spoke
of “going to prepare a place” for faithful Christians. To what was the Lord
referring?
18. What did Peter mean when he
said, “The longsuffering of our Lord is salvation”?
19. In 2 Peter 3:17-18, Peter warned those to whom he wrote about something. What was that “something”?
THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST,