Verse 3
3. Knowing this first The great precaution is here now premised in regard to the judgment-day prophecies. The readers must not suppose that the terms of immediacy of time in the prophetic announcements of the second advent really mean that they are now, humanly, at hand. The same caution given in St. Paul’s first epistle, (2 Thessalonians 2:1,) is repeated in this, Peter’s last.
The last days The very caution defines the phrase. They are the last days before the second advent, however far or near that day may be. That they may be a very distant last days it is the very purpose of the present passage to show, and to explain that the distance of time is not contradictory to the immediacy of the terms. See supplemental note to Matthew 25:0. Also notes on 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8; Revelation 1:1; Revelation 1:3; Revelation 22:20.
Scoffers These words, and the entire passage 3-5, we identify with Revelation 20:7-9, when Satan, released from his millennial imprisonment, “the nations” are once more “deceived,” and an apostasy takes place. Compare notes on Mark 13:24-27; Luke 18:8.
After their own lusts A sceptical spirit and a licentious life.
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