“It’s all going to burn, anyways.” Nope! But it will be laid bare and purified, as gold through fire. 2 Peter 3:10 actually encourages faithful stewardship of the earth, because the deeds done on earth matter. #DailyOffice #Advent

Quote: “The picture is indeed that of stripping off everything that stands between the eye of God and the earth. When the sky and the heavenly bodies are gone, “the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.” And that is the goal: to expose all that has gone on and is going on on the earth so that all those things that human beings thought that they were getting away with or thought that that God did not see are suddenly exposed to his unblinking eye. Probably our author believes that this process will do damage to the earth and its structures, but the point is the uncovering and exposing and thus the purifying of the earth.”&10;&10;Peter H. Davids, The Letters of 2 Peter and Jude, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2006), 286–287.