Good morning. So we
have this fiery end coming. But what will follow? According to His promise we
are looking for a new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
It won't be like today's world where we have both righteousness and evil
dwelling – there will only be righteousness! Therefore, beloved, since you look
for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and
blameless. We do not want Him to come and us not be ready. And regard the
patience of our Lord to be salvation. We might get impatient for Him to return,
but we need to remember – that if He had come one hundred years ago, we would
not be saved. Just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom
given to him, wrote to you, as also in all his letters, speaking in them of
these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught
and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own
destruction. Some people use the phrase rest of the Scriptures to indicate that
Paul's letters were considered even then to be equal to those things in the Old
Testament. Be on your guard lest, being carried away by the error of
unprincipled men, you fall from your own steadfastness, but grow in the grace
and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We do have to be on our
guard. It is too easy to not be diligent in following the Lord. This is the end
of second Peter. Father thank You that the reader is diligent, spotless, and
blameless. He/she grows in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ!
So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed
Good morning. We left John at the entrance of the tomb, stooping and looking in. “Shy” Peter then arrives following John, and enters the tomb; and he saw the linen wrappings lying there. So the other disciple, John, who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed. It does not say whether or not Peter believed. For as yet they did not understand the scripture, that He must rise again from the dead. So the disciples went away again to their own homes. I’m not exactly sure what it means by their own homes. They were originally from Galilee and would not have had homes in Jerusalem. Perhaps it means the homes where they were staying while in Jerusalem. Apparently, they were not staying in the upper room, or it would have said so. But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping; and so, as she wept, she stooped (just like John) and looked into the tomb. She saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been l...
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