SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
05/08/2004
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 God’s Work is Consistent
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Peter
3:5-7
Message of the
verses: “5 For when they maintain
this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long
ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, 6 through which the world at that time was
destroyed, being flooded with water. 7 But by His word the present heavens and
earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the Day of Judgment and destruction
of ungodly men.”
We are talking about creation, and I have to say that
this is a favorite subject of mine. In
the book of Genesis we see the words “and God said” nine times. This shows us that it was by God’s Word that
He created the earth and all the universes that we see, especially at
night. Psalm 33:9 tells us “For He
spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.” This verse is speaking about God’s
creation.
Now here is another thing that apostates want you to
believe, and that is that God created the world but then left the world for man
to totally govern, and this is totally false.
Dr. Wiersbe quotes Kenneth Wuest as he translates 2 Peter 3:5 to bring
out this subtle meaning “For concerning this they willfully forget that heavens
existed from ancient times, and land [standing] out of water, and by means of
water cohering by the word of God.”
Dr. Wiersbe states “Peter’s argument is obvious: the same God who created the world by His
word can also intervene in His world and do whatever He wishes to do! It is His word that made it and that holds it
together, and His word is all powerful.”
Peter then mentions Noah’s flood in 2 Peter 3:6, and we
have seen that Peter already mentioned the flood as God’s divine judgment in 2
Peter 2:5, and because of that there is no reason for going over any
details. Dr. Wiersbe writes that “the
flood was a cataclysmic event; in fact, the Greek word translated ‘overflowed’
gives us our English word cataclysm. The people living on earth had probably never
seen a rainstorm or the foundations of the deep broken up, but these events
happened just the same. Their
‘scientists’ could have argued as the scoffers argued, ‘Everything goes on as
it did from the beginning. Life is
uniform so nothing unusual can happen.’
But it happened.”
Dr. Wiersbe bring up a good point for us to learn from
and that is that there are people today who think that they know so much about
what happened before or what will happen in the future and yet they will have
nothing to do with a sovereign God who is in control of everything from the
time He created it until the time when He will un-create in the future as we
will learn when we get a bit further along in this third chapter of 2 Peter.
Peter has not established the fact that God has in the
past interrupted the course of history, now in our next SD we will look at how
he applies this in 2 Peter 2:7.
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