What Does the Bible Say About the End of the World?

We reach the end of our Top 10 Series by looking at the end— the final day, the Day of the Lord. Our question for the final sermon is, What does the Bible teach about the end of the world? Honestly, it didn’t take long for the first generation of believers to start wondering about this. They knew the Old Testament and Jesus both predicted an end to the world: a final judgment and the new heaven and earth. Just 30 years in, people were already questioning why it had taken so long and wondering how they would know when the Second Coming would happen. They thought God had been slow, so Peter reminds them that slow in our eyes is different from slow in Christ’s eyes. While they wanted a calendar with specific dates, Peter reminds them that the most important thing about belief in the final day is to know it will happen, so they should live each day with perseverance and expectation. He will come like a thief, so we should live ready and do all we can each day to make sure others will join us on that day.