God's Word is True (2 Peter 3:1-4)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 05/06/2004

My Worship Time                                                                                 Focus: God’s Word is True

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  2 Peter 3:1-4

            Message of the verses:  “1 This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, 2 that you should remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by your apostles. 3 Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, 4 and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation."”

            Peter is talking about memory loss in the first verse, noting that it is easy to forget the things that we have learned from our study of the Bible, things that are very important for us to remember.  Sometimes the cares of life cause us to step away from our study of the Word of God, when in reality they should bring us closer to the Lord, but when we step away we forgot all of those wonderful promises that are found in God’s Word, and miss out in applying them to situations we are in.  Being complacent causes us to fall into a place where we will forget things that we have learned, and when that happens our enemy will step in and cause us trouble.

            Dr. Wiersbe writes “Because God’s Word is true; we must pay attention to it and take its message seriously.  New converts must be taught the Word and established in the doctrines of the faith, for new Christians are the apostate teacher’s primary targets.  But older Christians must also be reminded of the importance of Bible doctrine and, in particular, the doctrines that relate to the return of Christ.  Prophetic teaching must not lull us to sleep.  Rather, it must awaken us to live godly lives and to seek to win the lost (Rom. 13:11-14).

            “What the Bible teaches about the Day of the Lord was not invented by the Apostles.  The prophets taught it and so did our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:2).  Peter emphasized the unity of the Word of God.  When the scoffers denied ‘the power and coming’ of Jesus Christ, they were denying the truth of the prophetic books, the teaching of our Lord in the Gospels, and the writing of the Apostates! Like our Lord’s seamless garment, the Scriptures cannot be cut apart without ruining the whole.”

            Dr. Wiersbe goes on to talk about the truth of God’s Word as it talks about the coming day of the Lord, a day when judgment will come upon those who have turned not the choice of becoming born-again into the family of God.  In the book of Genesis and then in Jude we see that God spoke of judgment through Enoch one of the men who pictures the Rapture of the Church as he went to heaven without dying as did Elijah later on.  After the Rapture of the Church great judgment will come upon the world and on the nation of Israel because of their rebellion against the Lord.  That time will last seven years with the greatest trouble coming during the last three and a half years which is called the “great tribulation” of the “time of Jacob’s trouble”

            The same God who predicts that our Lord will come again also predicts that there will be people who scoff at this truth found in the Word of God as our text tells us.  To teach that the Lord will not return is in direct violation of what both the Old and New Testaments teach, and we can be sure that the apostates are behind all of this as they are in league with Satan.  To teach that the Lord will not return and judge the world allows the apostates to continue to live in their sin.  I have mentioned in many of my Spiritual Diaries that I truly hate the teachings of the evolutionists who teach that the earth is just some kind of an accident and that there is no God who created the world and all that we see when we look up in the skies both in the day and in the night skies.  Satan is behind this impossible teaching because if you think that the existence of the world is an accident then you are not accountable to the God who truly did all the creating. 

            What Peter is telling us here is that Jesus Christ will indeed return to earth and we are not to be surprised at the teaching of the apostates who tell us that this will not happen.  Bottom line “God’s Word is True.”

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