Need to Have Jehovah's View

We need to have Jehovah's view of time, as Peter now reminds us:  "However, let his one fact not be escaping your notice, beloved ones, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day."  How short by comparison is our life span of 70 or 80 years!  (2 Peter 3:8; Psalm 90:4, 10) So if the fulfillment of God's promises seems to delay, we need to accept the admonition of God's prophet:  "Even if [appointed time] should delay, keep in expectation of it; for it will without fail come true.  It will not be late. -Habakkuk 2:3.

Why have the last days of this system continued longer than many expected?  For a fine reason, as Peter next explains:  "Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with you because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9) Jehovah takes into considerations what is in the best interest of all humankind. His concern is with the lives of people, as he says:  "I take delight, not in the death of the wicked one, but in that someone wicked turns back from his way and actually keeps living." (Ezekiel 33:11) So we can be confident that the end will come at just the right time to fulfill the purpose of our all-wise loving Creator!

Next time: What Will Pass Away?  

From the Watchtower magazine, 1997