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Professor Meyer explained: Very few will believe the message that there is a God and he is returning in judgment, just as no one believed the preaching of Noah until it was too late. Along those lines, Peter encourages Christians not to succumb to the conventional wisdom of the world and give up on the hope that Christ will return, possibly in your lifetime.
Peter also describes a divine intervention by God that will manifest on a global scale after the Second Coming.
This intervention will be on the scale of Noah s flood, bringing terrible devastation to the world.
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Persia in this context has been interpreted as the modern-day nation of Iran.
The mighty Persian empire, also called the Achaemenid Empire, once stretched across the Middle East, parts of North Africa and venture as far as southeast Europe and India.
Founded in 550 BC by Cyrus the Great, the Iranian empire declined about 200 years later.
But what about Beth Togarmah and Gomer? According to Signposts of the Times, these may be a reference to modern-day Turkey.
The blog s author said: Cush and Put are the present-day regions of Libya and Sudan/Ethiopia.
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Bible prophecy is clear about one thing: It will only get worse before it gets any better. The Bible warns of natural cataclysms, wars and rumours of wars, and wanton destruction in the days before Jesus Christ s Second Coming. Some niche groups of Christians believe these times have already begun, calling the coronavirus pandemic a plague of Biblical proportions.