Have you ever heard the term willingly ignorant? A person can’t help it if they are ignorant about something. It is likely that they never heard anything about it or at least not enough. That is common place and is acceptable. But to be willingly ignorant about something is another matter.

Have you been among those who reject the message of the Holy Scriptures saying “Where is the promise of the return of Jesus”? … followed by the reasoning that you have heard that all of your life and your parents did too and their parents, and on and on back thru the generations. Since it hasn’t happened you think it is foolishness. And you are right … it has been nearly 2000 years thus far and He has not returned. But I remind you that in God’s timing He came to earth the first time, He returned to Heaven and He will return when God tells Him to. He has a purpose in His delay and will return when His purpose is realized. Until then there are various things God tells us in His Word which must happen. And we are seeing “those things” happening before our eyes.

Besides it is important that it comes as a surprise. He does not want us to know when His return will happen as most people would choose to live carelessly knowing they can straighten up just before He returns.

As to the scoffers 2 Peter chapter 3 speaks about them. They are very much a part of end time bible prophecy. I will quote it here so you won’t have to look it up …

“The Day of the Lord Will Come – –

1 This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, 2 that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, 3 knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. 4 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.” 5 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, 6 and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. 7 But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
8 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you,^a not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies^b will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.^c
11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! 13 But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Final Words
14 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. 15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. 17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.” ESV

Footnotes:
a 9 Some manuscripts on your account
b 10 Or elements; also verse 12
c 10 Greek found; some manuscripts will be burned up

I shared from the ESV (English Standard Version) but using the KJV (King James Version) verse 5 reads: “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:” Did you catch that … willingly ignorant?

So you see, even the many scoffers are covered. They are part of the fulfillment of end time bible prophecy. Are you among them?If so, you probably did not know that God wrote of you, huh? All of the many scoffers make all of this all the more true.

New Living Translation
You have been taught the holy Scriptures from childhood, and they have given you the wisdom to receive the salvation that comes by trusting in Christ Jesus.

When He returns will He find faith in you or will you be willingly ignorant? Playing ostrich is not going to work. No excuses will be accepted.