2 Peter 3:12
“Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Believers are to look for and hasten the coming day of God, when the heavens will be dissolved in fire.
What Does 2 Peter 3:12 Mean?
Peter describes the believer's posture toward that day: "looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God." They are to watch eagerly and even to hasten it — to live in such a way that they long for and welcome its arrival. He repeats the imagery: the heavens "on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat."
The believer does not dread the day of God but longs for it. To be "looking for" it is to live with expectant hope; to be "hasting unto" it is to yearn for its coming and to live ready. The dissolving of the heavens, fearful to the scoffer, is for the faithful the threshold of something better (verse 13). This reorients the whole of life. Rather than clinging to a world destined for fire, the believer leans forward toward the day God has promised. Hope, not fear, defines the heart that belongs to Christ. The end of this order is, for the redeemed, the doorway to the new.