The Media Would Like To Dismiss It But End Times Beliefs Have Gone Mainstream
As end-times belief spreads among ordinary Americans, elite media voices respond with dismissal and condescension — a pattern Scripture identifies as a sign of the last days, when scoffers will mock those who watch for Christ's return.
2 Peter 3:3-4
Prophetic Fulfillment“knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, 'Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.'”
Why this passage
Peter writes to a church already enduring mockery over the delay of the Parousia, but his warning is explicitly eschatological — 'in the last days' — indicating a pattern that intensifies as the age closes. The scoffers' argument is uniformitarian: 'Nothing has changed; the world hums along as always.' This is not merely ancient skepticism; it is a described posture that Peter says will characterize the last days.
The grammatical-historical sense is plain: Peter identifies organized intellectual contempt for prophetic expectation as itself a fulfillment-marker. The elite media's systematic condescension toward end-times believers — framing prophetic watchfulness as superstition, backwardness, or danger — matches this pattern with uncommon precision.
Peter warned the Church that 'scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires' and asking, 'Where is the promise of his coming?' — and here, with striking precision, is that scoffing rendered in print and broadcast by those who consider prophetic watchfulness a mark of ignorance.
The mockery is not evidence that the watchers are wrong; it is itself one of the signs they are watching for. Take heart: the herald who is laughed off the wall has not failed his post.
Today's Prayer
Pray that Christians who hold fast to the blessed hope of Christ's return would not be shamed into silence by cultural derision, but would speak with calm confidence, knowing that Scripture foretold this very contempt.
Further Scripture
Additional passages that illuminate this event, each grounded in a distinct interpretive lens.
“They said to you, 'In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.' It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.”
Why this passage
Jude quotes the apostolic tradition — almost certainly echoing Peter — to identify scoffers as 'worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.' The Greek psuchikos ('natural, soulish') stands in deliberate contrast to pneumatikos ('spiritual'): these are people operating entirely within the horizon of the present age, incapable of perceiving realities belonging to the age to come.
The pairing with 'following their own ungodly passions' is significant: the scoffing is not neutral intellectualism but is rooted in a commitment to an ungoverned present — precisely the posture of a media culture that finds prophetic accountability inconvenient.
How it applies
That end-times belief has 'gone mainstream' among ordinary Americans while elite commentators dismiss it with condescension fits Jude's anatomy exactly: the spiritually discerning many versus the 'worldly people, devoid of the Spirit' who hold cultural authority.
The Christian is warned not to be overawed by the credentials of the scoffer. Institutional prestige does not confer spiritual perception.
“For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God,”
Why this passage
Peter diagnoses the scoffers' error not as honest ignorance but as willful suppression — 'they deliberately overlook.' The Greek lanthano here carries the sense of active, chosen blindness rather than simple unawareness. The uniformitarian assumption ('all things continue as they were') requires ignoring the Flood, a global discontinuity God already imposed.
This deliberate overlooking is the intellectual structure of dismissing prophetic belief: it requires setting aside the biblical pattern of God's decisive interventions in history, treating secular continuity as the only rational framework.
How it applies
Elite media dismissal of end-times belief is not simply uninformed — it involves a deliberate choice to treat naturalistic assumptions as self-evident while ruling the biblical-historical framework out of court before the evidence is weighed.
The Christian herald can name this clearly: it is not superior reason that drives the scoffing, but the willful suppression Peter identified — a suppression that itself confirms the age.
“Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!”
Why this passage
Isaiah's sixth woe in this oracle addresses the self-sufficient intelligentsia of Judah — those whose confidence in their own analytical frameworks made them impervious to prophetic warning. The force of 'wise in their own eyes' is not merely arrogance in general but specifically the refusal to submit one's reasoning to a higher revelatory standard.
This is a recurring human pattern that Proverbs also identifies (Prov 3:7; 26:12): intellectual self-sufficiency becomes its own form of blindness, and the prophetic word is the first casualty.
How it applies
Media voices who dismiss end-times belief as the credulity of the unsophisticated are exhibiting precisely what Isaiah named — wisdom in their own eyes, shrewdness in their own sight, with no aperture left open for the word that comes from outside their framework.
The woe is a pastoral warning, not a curse: this posture closes the very channel through which correction could arrive.
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