If you're a believer, you'll be gone when God's judgment hits. But it does mean your life changes. You have been reconciled. Growing to be like Jesus each day. Only by the blood.
Signs are everywhere.
Israel, immorality, European Community, technology. Everything is in place. Human acts are meaningful and significant, nevertheless God is sovereign. Peter doesn't say. However, Peter has already told us that the apparent delay in the return of Christ is because of God's desire for men to repent.