TIME

2 Peter 3:3-10 (KJV)
"3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."
Ecclesiastes 3:1 tells us, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” Time is nothing more than allotted space. For instance, morning is allotted time for breakfast, noon for lunch, and evening for super. When we make appointments it is usually surrounded by time, time we have allotted to meet. Therefore, time is more about purpose than the space it occupies.
This is why one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day to God. His purpose is more important than the space allotted to it. God is patient and He is longsuffering. His purpose can out live our apathy and our lack of concern; in other words, His love for us does not change throughout the tenure of our lives whether we are conscious of it or not.
The day of the LORD is an allotted time; it is an appointment that will take place in a specific space and time. Just as there was a time God created the heavens, a time the world overflowed with water and perished, His day will consume everything in a fervent heat; “…the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”
We must understand this space is not as important as His purpose. God will bring justice to all that has gone wrong. In the center of all this we need to understand His heart. It is not His will that any should perish but that we all come to learn transformation; that we all should come to repentance. “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).
The long and short end of all this is; God’s long patients hastens our repentance. In other words, our allotted time is scheduled for one purpose and that is for us to learn transformation.
Daniel saw fire coming from the throne consuming the Roman Empire (the fourth beast of Daniel 7). Peter lived in the vice of Rome. Daniel’s response to that vision was that the enemy seeks to change time and to wear down the saints; his whole function is to invade our space (time).
Pay him no mind for “the time is at hand;” fulfill the Father’s heart and learn transformation. The condition of this world does not get to choose our condition with God, it did not with Daniel and Peter in their time and it must not with us.