Willing to be ignorant "Dumb on purpose"

Ps 33: 8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Ps 33: 9 For he “spake”, and it was done; he “commanded” and it stood fast.

“Let all the earth fear the Lord”- this refers to how all that dwell upon the earth have “the responsibility” to fear – to honor and to respect their creator 

“let all the inhabitant of the world stand in awe of him” refers to how we can obviously see God’s handiwork in everything around us . . . 

we can see these things UNLESS we have chosen to “bind” our heats and our minds to willful ignorance as those we read about in II Peter 3 have done . . .

3 ¶ Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

The last days refer to the time of history just before “the end” of the age . . . 

A scoffer is nothing more than a false teacher (one who does not promote the truth)

“To walk after their own lust” refers to “the course” or to “the journey of life” that these false teachers had chosen to become the guiding influence in their lives.

4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

The attitude of these false teachers is that the power of God is not the constraining force in our world nor in our lives . . . but that there is a little bit of good in all of us – and we are in charge of our own destiny . . . it is our responsibility to let the good rule in our world and it is God’s responsibility to reward us for that good . . .

On the surface - This type of attitude sounds good to us . . . but beneath the surface . . . it is just another lie that Satan has told with the intent of causing us to take our eyes off of the goodness of Jesus - and to focus instead upon our own "supposed" goodness.

5 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:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

The reference here – is to the great flood in the days of Noah . . . and how that as an act of judgment - “the world” was destroyed by that great flood which was brought about by Gods' Power over His creation.

7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the “same word” are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men . . .

This tells us of a “future judgment” upon the world . . . a judgment that is similar to that which God spilled upon the earth in the days of Noah . . .

It points to a judgment that is reserved for that generation of men who just like in the days of Noah – are men who have become “unreachable” because of how their minds/hearts “only evil continually”.

To be “willingly ignorant” of how God’s hand is “the power” that controls “the natural forces” of our world and universe . . . literally means that we have chosen (decided) to be DUMB or stupid “on purpose”.  

The idea being that because “the power of God” as it is revealed around us “is so OBVIOUS” – that to be willingly ignorant actually means that we have “counted the cost” of accepting the Truth into our lives as being so disruptive to our life style . . .

that we have chosen to try “really hard” to become blind to the Truth and to avoid “seeing God” in everything around us (with the false reasoning) that 

if we deny God’s power in our world – then we can also deny His power to judge our world - and to judge our lives of sin.

To be blind to everything that God IS in the present – and to be blind to everything that God has done in the past – and to be blind to everything that God will do in the future . . . 

to be blind to these things – a man must determine or purpose in his heart – to simply close his eyes and close his heart . . . to all of the evidence that God has so graciously placed before us in His creation . . . 

The way of nature is to grow old and to decay . . . not to become new and
to be restored . . . the way of nature is to become scattered and chaotic not to unite and become uniform . . .

After the creation . . . our earth and the universe which contains it – did not begin to “get better” but rather it began dying “the instant” that God
spoke it into existence . . . 

and to be willingly ignorant of the power of God in creation – is simply a subconscious desire for us to avoid judgment before God “as our creator” . . . if we can deny God’s power in creation – then we can deny God’s power to judge us AS His creation . . .

   Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the   judgment . . . to convince ourselves that God is not our creator - is to also convince ourselves that God is not our judge . . .

“For he spake and it was done” – God’s WORD brought all of creation into existence . . . “he commanded and it stood fast” – God set the universe in order - and that order is constantly maintained (not by mother nature – but) by His divine Power . . .

The spoken word of God is “the power” that put creation “in order” . . . 

After sin entered into our world . . . It was the spoken word of God that gave “His creation” the hope of redemption . . . which refers to the hope of a savour named Jesus Christ who (because He loved His creation 

{specifically mankind}) He would die on the cross in an effort to “save” that creation from eternal loss.

God is all powerful – but God has a desire to be loved.  God created man in His own image.  God created man with a soul that would remain alive
for all eternity . . . 

In the Garden of Eden Satan became jealous of the relationship that God had with man . . . so Satan tempted “man” to betray the love that he had shown toward God in the Garden of Eden . . . and to disobey God’s Word so that “the fellowship” or the relationship which man had with God would be broken . . . 

Satan was successful in leading man AWAY from God – but God’s love for the man who had betrayed Him was so great . . . that God was willing to die – in order to give those who did not believe in Him an opportunity to be SAVED or “restored” to fellowship with God through faith.

John 3: 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.