A friend relayed a question that someone in his church asked him. The questioner had read an article I wrote suggesting that repentance is turning from sins, even in 2 Pet 3:9, which reads, “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any

Peter wrote, “The Lord is…not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Pet 3:9). But what did he mean? The first nine verses of the last chapter of 2 Peter, chapter 3, deal with Christ’s promise to come again and set up His kingdom. The coming false teachers will