2Pe 3:12 | NETfull | STEP | while waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God? Because of this day, the heavens will be burned up and dissolve, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze!

2 Peter 3:12

12 while waiting for and hastening ^{▼▼ Or possibly, “striving for,” but the meaning “hasten” for σπουδάζω (spoudazō) is normative in Jewish apocalyptic literature (in which the coming of the Messiah/the end is anticipated). Such a hastening is not an arm-twisting of the divine volition, but a response by believers that has been decreed by God.} the coming of the day of God? ^{▼▼ The coming of the day of God. Peter elsewhere describes the coming or parousia as the coming of Christ (cf. 2 Pet 1:16; 3:4). The almost casual exchange between “God” and “Christ” in this little book, and elsewhere in the NT, argues strongly for the deity of Christ (see esp. 1:1).} Because of this day, ^{▼▼ Grk “on account of which” (a subordinate relative clause in Greek).} the heavens will be burned up and ^{▼▼ Grk “being burned up, will dissolve.”} dissolve, and the celestial bodies ^{▼▼ See note in v. 10 on “celestial bodies.”} will melt away in a blaze! ^{▼▼ Grk “being burned up” (see v. 10).}