We may disagree on certain details concerning His Second Advent (pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation, post-tribulation, post-millennial) but we must not deny His literal second coming. Now obviously, the four views ((pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation, post-tribulation, post-millennial) cannot all be right. Only one can be the correct interpretation and we clearly hold to a pre-tribulation rapture and a post-tribulation second advent. Satan wants us to deny the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ is coming again! His false teachers go around seeking to sow seeds of discord among believers and get them to fight over the absolute truths of the Word of God. The devil gains a tactical victory over a believer when he enters into a denial of the soon coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He forfeits the “hope” of Christ’s coming!

“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” II Peter 3:8

Peter answers the false teachings of these men who are ruled by evil desires and make sport of spiritual issues. He informs us that the Lord does not consider time in the same way in which we do. Moses had previously revealed this truth to us.  Peter takes Moses (cf. Ps. 90:4) quote and changes it slightly (by the inspiration of the Spirit) to explain that a thousand years is no more than a day by the divine timetable.

The rule of hermeneutics, which applies to all modifications of previous Old Testaments quotes by New Testament writers, is that the Divine Author of both testaments is perfectly free to recast the mere literary form of the earlier statement to give its deeper meaning.

Peter explained that the Father’s timetable looks at a 1,000 year period as being no more than a day within His eternal plan. The Lord’s work is being done on the Father’s established timetable and not on any human timetable. Forty days after Christ’s resurrection, He ascended into the presence of the Father to await His second advent (cf. Acts 1:1-9 with Heb. 1:1-14). At the moment of His ascension, two angels brought the prophetic promise of Christ’s Second Advent (cf. Acts 1:10-11). This reconfirmed Jesus promise to the eleven disciples in the upper room on the night before His crucifixion, that He was going to the Father but that He was coming again for them at the rapture (cf. John 14:1-6).