2 Peter 3:14-18

2. By the true interpretation of time in the prophecies of the second advent believers may be preserved from apostasy, and attain salvation, 2 Peter 3:14-18.

Whilst others wrest the apparent non-fulfilment of the immediateness of the second advent to their own apostasy, (especially as predicted in Paul’s epistles,) you, being aware of the true interpretation, will rightly understand God’s long-suffering, and may persevere unto salvation. Commentators seem not generally to have observed that Peter’s intimation of difficulties of interpretation is really limited to this one point, namely, his using terms of immediacy in regard to the possibly very distant second advent.