Back in the late 1990’s many people were very concerned about what would happen when computers began to click over to the year 2000. Many people remember the whole “Y2K” phenomenon. People thought that on January 1, 2000 computers would crash world-wide, aircraft would fall from the sky, power grids would fail, transportation would come to a halt. In short, many people thought that life as we know it would come to an end. However, when we woke up on that first day of the year 2000, nothing had changed. There was no world-wide disaster. Several years later, people became concerned when it became widely known that the Mayan calendar would end on December 21, 2012. Many people considered this to be a prediction about when the world would come to an end or at least it would be an end of the world as we know it. Many people bought emergency supplies and made expensive preparations for the disaster that would come on 12/21/2012. When we woke up on the 22nd day of that December, nothing had changed. The end of the world as we know didn’t come. That is the common thread of man’s predictions of world wide disaster. They never come true. There is one prediction about the end of the world that we do need to take seriously. It’s found in 2 Peter 3. After mentioning that some people choose to believe that since the world hasn’t ended yet, it never will, Peter tells us that the end WILL come. “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.” (vs. 10). Peter says that this day is certain and then asks us the question, “Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness?” (vs. 11). This day is the one for which we MUST be prepared.