2 Peter 3:1-4, A Chronology of Christ’s Return

In 2 Peter 3:10 there is a reference to the day of the Lord in connection with the coming of the Lord.  Because of this connection we are going to post three Biblical timeline charts that concern the return of Christ. 

o   The first concerns the day of the Lord, the day coming when God sets things right with both Israel and the nations and results in the exaltation of Christ.  The timing is based on a Jewish day, of course, beginning with the time of darkness (judgment) and moving then to the dawn (the return of Christ) and the daytime (His exaltation as the King in Zion on David’s throne).

o   The second is based in Daniel’s prophecy of Seventy Weeks.  The chart speaks of the fulfillment of God’s purpose in Israel, a purpose specified in the prophecy in the form of six goals that have to do with Daniel’s people (i.e. Israel).  It includes a parenthesis

for the time of the Church because Daniel’s prophecy only concerns Israel; the age of the Church had not been revealed to Daniel.

     Space limitations mean we will save the third for our next post and will speak as well of another important Old Testament passage that emphasizes God’s sovereignty in the chronology of the future.