Bible Trivia Quiz | End-Time Lines From Peter, James, John and Jude | Digging Deeper

Question 1. Peter said scoffers would come in the last days. What question would they use to mock?

Answer: “Where is the promise of his coming?” (2 Peter 3:3–4).

Context & Exhortation: Peter wrote his second letter near the end of his life. 

He warned that scoffers would argue that “all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation” (3:4). Peter answered that they willingly forget the flood, when God judged the world before (3:5–6).

Peter explains that the delay is not neglect; it is mercy. The Lord is “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (3:9). 

Family, every passing day is another chance for people to turn to God.

He also reminds us that God does not measure time the way we do: “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (3:8).

When people mock the idea of Christ’s return, don’t be shaken. God keeps His promises in His own time. Our job is to use the time we have been given well. 

As we go through today, let’s think of one person we can pray for, that they too would come to repentance.

Question 2. According to Peter, what will happen to the elements on the day of the Lord?

Answer: They “shall melt with fervent heat,” and the earth and the works in it will be burned up (2 Peter 3:10).

Context & Exhortation: Peter says 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” (3:10). 

He uses the strongest language he can to show that this world as we know it will not last forever.

Everything we own and build here is temporary. Houses, cars, businesses, and possessions will all one day be gone. That truth should change how much weight we give to them.

Peter does not stop with destruction. He points to what comes next: “new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness” (3:13). 

Jesus taught the same priority when He said, “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth” (Matthew 6:19).

Here’s something to think about. Where does most of your time, money, and energy go? 

As we think about that, let us remember to hold this world loosely and God’s promises tightly. We must invest in what will last for eternity: our relationship with God and the people around us.

Question 3. How did John say his readers could know “it is the last time”?

Answer: Because many antichrists had already come (1 John 2:18).

Context & Exhortation: John’s readers had been taught that antichrist would come. 

John told them that many antichrists were already at work. Some had even left the fellowship of believers: “They went out from us, but they were not of us” (2:19).

These were likely early false teachers who denied that Jesus was truly the Christ come in the flesh. John saw that the spirit of antichrist is not only about one future figure. It is anything that denies who Jesus really is.

John gives a clear test: “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?” (2:22). Later he writes, “every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God” (4:2).

Many voices today offer their own version of Jesus. Let us hold firmly to who the Bible says Jesus is, the Christ, the Son of God, who came in the flesh, died, and rose again. Test every teaching by that truth.

Question 4. Jude quotes a prophecy about the Lord coming with ten thousands of His saints. Who first gave that prophecy?

Answer: Enoch, “the seventh from Adam” (Jude 1:14).

Context & Exhortation: Genesis says, “Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him” (Genesis 5:24). 

However, Genesis does not record the prophecy that Jude quotes about the Lord coming with ten thousands of His saints. Scholars note similar wording in the Book of Enoch, an ancient writing that is not part of the Bible.

Enoch lived only seven generations after Adam, long before the flood. 

Even then, God’s people were already looking for the Lord to come and set things right.

Jude uses this prophecy to warn of judgment on the ungodly (1:15). 

Hebrews says that before Enoch was taken, he “had this testimony, that he pleased God” (Hebrews 11:5). Enoch’s life was marked by a close walk with God, and his message looked forward to the Lord’s coming. 

Am I walking with God day by day? Are you walking with God day by day? When we walk with Him now, His coming will be a joy, not a threat.

Question 5. James told believers to wait patiently for the Lord’s coming, like someone in an everyday job. Who?

Answer: The husbandman, or farmer, who waits for the early and latter rain (James 5:7).

Context & Exhortation: James wrote to believers who were being treated unfairly by the rich. Wages were being held back, and the poor were being oppressed (5:4–6). James told them to wait patiently for the Lord, who would set things right.

In Israel, the early rain came in the autumn after planting, and the latter rain came in the spring before harvest. A farmer could not rush either one. He waited, but he kept working while he waited.

James adds, “stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh” (5:8), and “Grudge not one against another” (5:9). He points to the patience of Job as an example of endurance (5:11).

Waiting can make us bitter if we are not careful. So, wait with patience, keep doing what God has called you to do, and don’t let the waiting turn you against the people around you.

Question 6. Peter wrote that “the end of all things is at hand.” What two things did he tell believers to do because of it?

Answer: Be sober, and watch unto prayer (1 Peter 4:7).

Context & Exhortation: Peter was writing to believers scattered across Asia Minor who were facing suffering for their faith. He told them plainly that “the end of all things is at hand” (4:7), but he did not tell them to panic or give up.

To be sober here means to be clear-minded and self-controlled. 

Knowing the end is near is a reason to think clearly and pray, not a reason to sit back and wait.

Peter goes on: “above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins” (4:8). He adds, “Use hospitality one to another without grudging” (4:9).

Peter’s response to the end times was prayer, love, and service. 

Let us think about which of these needs more attention in our lives right now, and take one step in that direction today.

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