2 Peter 3.10

v 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.

God’s Grace comes in a prophecy of wrath, in the revelation by which his righteous are taken away to be spared from evil (Isaiah 57.1), and will be spared from the fire. The prophecy of scripture is that this second death of fire is for the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars (Revelation 21.8). For those with hope in the salvation worked by the Son of God in fulfillment of the will and Word of God, we are confident that to the thirsty he will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life (Revelation 22.6), but that this moment of judgement by which man will stand before the judging Word of God will come like a thief. Those who have the most to hope from the day of the Lord are yet those who are in most anxious anticipation of it, who most live by the commands of Jesus Christ to be ready, to internalize the wisdom that he provided of this day, that if the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into (Matthew 24.43). Yet those who most stand to gain from understanding this, are those who would not repent at the many mighty miracles in the finals days and hours, and who do not receive the faith that miraculous comes from God by his trusted Son, and so along with the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare and destroyed by fire.