The Feast of Trumpets pictures the pivotal changeover between the age of man, of darkness, and of Satan to the age of God, the Millennium and the Kingdom of God as Jesus Christ returns as the conquering King of kings and Lord of lords. It is obvious that Satan has pulled out all stops, preparing for great tribulation, and unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved alive. Doubting that Christ will return has always been problematic for the faithful weak as well as the perennial tool of the heretics denying the second coming of Christ. Scoffers claimed that Christ has delayed His coming so long that it was safe to conclude that it would never occur. Scoffers assume that the world has always been stable and predictable, despite the established record of a worldwide flood and a promise of a deadly holocaust at the end of the age (II Peter 5-6). Peter explains that God's apparent slowness to act is not negligent or lacking, but mercy, giving another opportunity to repent and find salvation (II Peter 3:9). The second coming provides a tremendous motive for God's elect to prepare themselves to meet their God. Peter assures us that things are not governed by rationalistic presumption or chance but divine control from Almighty God, who will usher in a Millennial Sabbath rest and reparation of the 6,000 years of corruption. Sadly, the world has been headed for destruction for thousands of years because of humanity's enmity toward God. We have the individual responsibility to make every effort to submit to God as He makes us ready for our new home.