2 Peter 3:4
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4 They will say, “What happened to the promise that Jesus is coming again? From before the times of our ancestors, everything has remained the same since the world was first created.”
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Jeremiah 17:15
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15 People scoff at me and say,
“What is this ‘message from the Lord’ you talk about?
Why don’t your predictions come true?”
Malachi 2:17
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17 You have wearied the Lord with your words.
“How have we wearied him?” you ask.
You have wearied him by saying that all who do evil are good in the Lord’s sight, and he is pleased with them. You have wearied him by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”
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Jeremiah 5:12-13
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12 “They have lied about the Lord
and said, ‘He won’t bother us!
No disasters will come upon us.
There will be no war or famine.
13 God’s prophets are all windbags
who don’t really speak for him.
Let their predictions of disaster fall on themselves!’”
Luke 12:45
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45 But what if the servant thinks, ‘My master won’t be back for a while,’ and he begins beating the other servants, partying, and getting drunk?
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Isaiah 5:18-19
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18 What sorrow for those who drag their sins behind them
with ropes made of lies,
who drag wickedness behind them like a cart!
19 They even mock God and say,
“Hurry up and do something!
We want to see what you can do.
Let the Holy One of Israel carry out his plan,
for we want to know what it is.”
Ecclesiastes 8:11
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11 When a crime is not punished quickly, people feel it is safe to do wrong.
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Matthew 24:48
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48 But what if the servant is evil and thinks, ‘My master won’t be back for a while,’
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Ezekiel 12:22-27
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22 “Son of man, you’ve heard that proverb they quote in Israel: ‘Time passes, and prophecies come to nothing.’ 23 Tell the people, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will put an end to this proverb, and you will soon stop quoting it.’ Now give them this new proverb to replace the old one: ‘The time has come for every prophecy to be fulfilled!’
24 “There will be no more false visions and flattering predictions in Israel. 25 For I am the Lord! If I say it, it will happen. There will be no more delays, you rebels of Israel. I will fulfill my threat of destruction in your own lifetime. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”
26 Then this message came to me from the Lord: 27 “Son of man, the people of Israel are saying, ‘He’s talking about the distant future. His visions won’t come true for a long, long time.’
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1 Thessalonians 2:19
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19 After all, what gives us hope and joy, and what will be our proud reward and crown as we stand before our Lord Jesus when he returns? It is you!
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Genesis 19:14
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14 So Lot rushed out to tell his daughters’ fiancés, “Quick, get out of the city! The Lord is about to destroy it.” But the young men thought he was only joking.
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Mark 13:19
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19 For there will be greater anguish in those days than at any time since God created the world. And it will never be so great again.
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Ecclesiastes 1:9
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9 History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new.
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Revelation 3:14
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The Message to the Church in Laodicea
14 “Write this letter to the angel of the church in Laodicea. This is the message from the one who is the Amen—the faithful and true witness, the beginning[a] of God’s new creation:
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- 3:14 Or the ruler, or the source.
Ezekiel 11:3
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3 They say to the people, ‘Is it not a good time to build houses? This city is like an iron pot. We are safe inside it like meat in a pot.[a]’
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- 11:3 Hebrew This city is the pot, and we are the meat.
Mark 10:6
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6 But ‘God made them male and female’[a] from the beginning of creation.
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Matthew 24:28
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28 Just as the gathering of vultures shows there is a carcass nearby, so these signs indicate that the end is near.[a]
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- 24:28 Greek Wherever the carcass is, the vultures gather.
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