Why do people scoff at the thought of Jesus coming to Earth the second time?
Well, the Bible says that there will be scoffers in the last days – people who refuse to believe that Jesus Christ will return to Earth as the King of Kings. They disbelieve this truth just as they disbelieve Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. The scoff at the truth that Jesus shed His blood to cover mankind’s sin.
The reason they scoff is found in 2 Peter 3: 3; “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.” They do not want to live for God. They’re interested in fulfilling their own pleasure.
Many say they doubt the Bible but when they probe their hearts they admit that they don’t want their lifestyles disturbed. They would rather feed on things that appeal to the flesh.
This is nothing new. While the Bible tells the world to anticipate Jesus’ return, unbelievers proclaim that the promise was made from the beginning; yet He hasn’t appeared, so they scoff and willfully forget. 2 Peter 3: 5 says; “For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water.” People fail to remember that God flooded the earth in judgement of man’s sin but set a rainbow in the sky as His promise that the e earth would never flood again – and it hasn’t!
The Bible declares in 2 Peter 3: 8 & 9 this; “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us – ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
Christ delays His coming so that many more will receive His salvation. Only a loving God who desires to spare souls from eternal judgement would be so patient with mankind.