What does it mean that God is not willing for any to perish, but that all should come to repentance?

In today's video I'll answer your question, what does it mean that God is not willing for any to perish

but that all should come to repentance?

Then afterward, as always, I'll share some helpful resources, so stick around until the.

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It is always important to study Bible verses in context, and it is especially true with 2 Peter

3 verse 9 which reads, The Lord is not slack concerning His promise as some men count

slackness, but is longsuffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all

should come to repentance.

The second half of the verse, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance, is frequently

used to argue against the doctrine of election.

The context of 2 Peter 3 verse 9 is a description of scoffers who doubt that

Jesus is going to return to judge the world with fire, 2 Peter 3 verses 3 -7.

The scoffers mock, where is this coming?

Verse 4.

In verses 5 -6, Peter reminds his readers that God previously destroyed the world with the flood

in Noah's time.

In verse 7, Peter informs his readers that the present heavens and earth will be

destroyed with fire.

Peter then responds to a question he knew was on his readers' minds, namely, what is taking God

so long?

In verse 8, Peter tells his readers that God is above and beyond the concept of time.

It may seem like we have been waiting a long time, but to God it has been a blink of an.

Eye.

Then in verse 9, Peter explains why God has waited so long in our view of time.

It is God's mercy that delays His judgment.

God is waiting to give more people the opportunity to repent.

Then in the verses following verse 9, Peter encourages his readers to live holy lives in anticipation of the

fact that Jesus will one day return.

In context, 2 Peter 3 verse 9 says that God is delaying His coming in judgment in

order to give people further opportunities to repent.

Some of the confusion regarding the meaning of 2 Peter 3 verse 9 is the wording of the KJV

translation, not willing that any should perish.

Not willing makes it sound as if God does not allow any to perish.

However, in 17th -century English, willing carried more of an idea of desire than of.

Volition.

The modern English translations of 2 Peter 3 verse 9 render the same phrase not wanting in

the NIV and CSB, not wishing in the ESV and NASB, and does not

want in the NLT.

In no sense does 2 Peter 3 verse 9 contradict the idea that God elects certain

people to.

Salvation.

First, in context, election is not at all what the verse is talking about.

Second, to interpret not willing that any should perish as does not allow any to perish results in the

false doctrine of universalism.

But God can not desire anyone to perish and still only elect some to salvation.

There is nothing incongruous about that.

God did not desire for sin to enter the world through the fall of Adam and Eve, yet He allowed.

It.

In fact, it was part of His sovereign plan.

God did not desire His only begotten Son to be betrayed, brutally tortured, and murdered, yet He

allowed it.

This too was part of God's sovereign plan.

In the same way, God does not desire anyone to perish.

He desires all to come to repentance.

At the same time, God recognizes that not everyone will come to repentance.

It is undeniable that many will perish.

Matthew 7 verses 13 -14.

Rather than being a contradiction to 2 Peter 3 verse 9, God's electing and drawing of some

to salvation is evidence that He truly does not desire people to perish.

Were it not for election and the effectual calling of God, everyone would perish.

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