"Predestined According to the Purpose of Him Who Works all things According to the Counsel of His Will", Ephesians 1:11.

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That is not the "THEM" that verse is speaking about. Go back and see who God is longsuffering "for" (on account of). That is about Christ delaying his return to allow time for a complete harvest, not because God loves the tares that he will gather and burn at the end of the harvest (Matthew 13 analogy).

God may have a general love for all without exception, I am simply pointing out that the "longsuffering" verse in 2 Peter 3:9 is not about that (it is about something else).

We're coming from two separate views of salvation, we will see it differently.

Peter says in vs. 8 that with the Lord one day is as thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Then he says the Lord is not slack concerning His promise, but longsuffering toward us.

Have you ever wondered why this Church Age is the longest dispensation in time from the very beginning of man? It's been going on now for 2000 years, while the dispensation of the Law lasted only some 1500 years.

God is bearing long with man, to show man His salvation, even though most will reject it in some manner.

Then in vs. 10 Peter enters into the Judgment of God on man.

Peter is telling us that God is delaying the Judgment, not willing that any should perish. Who knows how long this dispensation of the Church Age will last while God is being longsuffering with man?

Will it carry on until God has reached the number He has in mind? What will determine when God God says, that's it, I'm winding this up and bringing Judgment on disobedient man? Then we enter into the Perfect Age with no sin, no unsaved left on earth, and on into infinity we go.