2 Peter 1:16–21: Eyewitnesses and True Prophecy
Peter's readers faced teachers who treated the second coming as a fabricated story. He answers with what he saw on the mountain and heard from the Father, and with Scriptures that the Spirit carried along.
Ten Virgins: Oil You Cannot Borrow
The parable of the ten virgins turns on what happened before midnight. All ten wait and all ten sleep, so the difference is not alertness but oil already secured, and that cannot be borrowed when the cry comes.
Does God Exist Outside of Time? 2 Peter 3 and the Patience of God
Peter does not hand us a philosophy of time or a calendar for Christ's return. He tells a waiting church that God's measure of time is not theirs, and that the delay has a reason: patience that calls people to repentance.