"neither the courage nor the power to meet them. The doom awaiting France was but too truly pictured in his indolent and selfish answer, “After me, the deluge!” GC 280.1"
"Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 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."
Both passages address a sense of complacency or denial regarding future consequences. 2 Peter 3:3-4 describes scoffers who deny the promise of Christ's return, while the EGW passage quotes Louis XV's 'After me, the deluge!' as an expression of indifference to the future of France. The parallel lies in the shared theme of ignoring or dismissing impending judgment.