Yes, everyone.
2 Peter 3:10 is just one simple verse.
Which is possible to be a follow-up letter of the first one which was written to
1 Peter 1: 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood:
So you could say it is for us today or for them.
My belief is that it was a letter written to them as a follow-up to the first to keep them encouraged in faith of the Lords Coming,.
You can question that if you would like to it is up to you, for me :
I enjoy context because everything starts from Chapter 1, then has an ending and there is so much in between.
Obviously one day you and me will die and the Lord is going to take us but that doesn't mean the end of the world. Which was my very first question asked. In my case the world is going to go on forever even after we die.
Have you ever heard this before or ever checked to see if it might mean this before?
Someone (My teacher Shawn Mcranney) explained to me
that the message of 1000 years means the owning of all things.
He said
it is like saying God has a 1000 hills, and a 1000 cows, and a 1000 birds - that doesn't mean individually but that
God owns all of the hills, all the cows, all the birds.
If Christ reign 1000 years (by
owning everything : Overcoming death, Overcoming Sin, Overcoming Satan, Overcoming the Grave)
, does the Lord God Almighty own all of the earth in the sense of 'the creation of human beings', though by free will they choose to believe or not? - God will still resurrect everyone.
My question was if this world was going to end, not about the Lords coming. You will die just like me and everyone well have the Lord God Almighty get them.
(Some believe that people lay in the grave for 1000 years then they raise up and go to God which is okay if you believe that.) Just not my view.
Jesus Christ had victory over death, no one is laying in their grave anymore.
My question was if you believe the world was going to end or not. For me, no.
Maybe for you ? It might be a yes, I do not know.
1 Peter 1:1 simply tells everyone WHO Peter was directing his letter to. Jews who had come to Christ.
It has nothing to to with 2 Peter 3:10 my friend.
2 Peter 3:10
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night,"......is a reference to the Coming of Christ, the 2nd Coming.
The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, leave out the phrase, "in the night": and the Alexandrian copy uses the emphatic article, "in the night": and he will come, "as a thief", in the dark, indiscernibly; it is about
SUDDENESS! It will not be known what hour he will come; he will come suddenly, at an unawares, when he is not expected, to the great surprise of men, and especially of the scoffers; when the following awful things will be done.
"in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise;"
Now you are free to believe anything you choose to believe. I on the other hand choose to believe the Word of God which says that there is going to be and end to this Earth we know now!
This Scripture right here is not about the third heaven, the seat of angels and glorified saints, and even of God himself; but the starry and airy heavens, which shall pass away, not as to their matter and substance, but as to some of their accidents and qualities, and the present use of them; and that with a great noise, like that of a violent storm, or tempest; though the Ethiopic version renders it, "without a noise"; and which is more agreeable to his coming as a thief, which is not with noise, but in as still a manner as possible; and some learned men observe, that the word signifies swiftly, as well as with a noise; and, accordingly, the Syriac version renders it "suddenly"; and the Arabic version "presently", immediately; that is, as soon as Christ shall come, immediately, at once, from his face shall the earth and heavens flee away, as John in a vision saw, (
Revelation 20:11 ) ;Source:
https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/2-peter-3-10.html
"and the elements shall melt with fervent heat:"
as the works of the earth are distinguished from the earth in the next clause; and design the firmament, or expanse, with the sun, moon, and stars in it, which will be purged and purified by this liquefaction by fire;
the earth also
will be purged and purified from everything that is noxious, hurtful, unnecessary, and disagreeable; though the matter and substance of it will continue:
and the works that are therein shall be burnt up;
all the works of nature, wicked men, cattle, trees and all the works of men, cities, towns, houses, furniture, utensils, instruments of arts of all sorts, will be burnt by a material fire, breaking out of the earth and descending from heaven, for which the present heavens and earth are reserved: this general conflagration was not only known to the Jews, but to the Heathens, to the poets, and Platonist and Stoic philosophers.