THE man of lawlessness will be destroyed and God’s kingdom and rulership declared. Christians will be gathered up to be with God and resurrected from the dead to receive an eternal reward. The elements will melt with  heat and the universe as we know it will perish.

2 Peter 3:10-12: But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 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?

This is the only day that matters for the Christian-- it is the day for which we are keeping ourselves holy, pure and blameless. It is the end of the race when we receive the prize. If we abide in Christ we will have no reason to be ashamed on that day.

1 John 2:28: And now, little children, abide in him, that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Like a farmer waiting for his crop to mature, we are mandated to work for the glorious manifestation of the Parousia. We are not to be like the mockers who deride the second coming as due to God being tardy or non-existent. Rather we are to’’’hasten the day”. That is why Joel says in Joel 2:1: Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; that is the challenge of Parousia.
Are you ready? Are you focused? Not on your circumstance but on the coming King of kings and Lord of lords. Be prepared.