Feb 6, 2022
EXODUS 13-14:
Yesterday In Exodus we heard of the final
plague— the death of the firstborn, which happened at the first
Passover. And we heard the rules for the Passover celebrations.
Note how Christ is foreshadowed in the Passover lamb, including the
detail that not a bone was to be broken.
JOB 37:
Today we read chapter 37 of Job, which is the
conclusion of Elihu's speech.
2nd PETER 1:
Yesterday in the last chapter of his letter,
James railed against the rich to encourage the poor. He also told
us how to be patient in our suffering. The last section teaches
about prayer for the sick and finally about repentance. I add a
little footnote here. So often I hear the part about praying for
the sick quoted by people who do not bother to fulfill all the
instructions that James gives. If we are going to claim promises in
Scriptures, we need to fulfill the conditions given!
The 2nd letter of Peter's was probably written not long before he was martyred in AD 68. Or it could have been written as early as AD 65. A different person with a very different vocabulary served as Peter’s secretary to write this. One of the things that tell me that Peter really was the author is his consistent humility. In 1Peter 5, he spoke of himself as a fellow elder and a fellow in looking forward to the glory that will be revealed to us. And he starts this letter in a similar vein, calling his listeners those ‘who share the same precious [faith/way of believing] we [apostles] have.’
Constable quotes Vernon McGee:
“Second Peter is the swan song of Peter, just as 2 Timothy is the swan song of Paul. There are striking similarities between the two books. Both epistles put up a warning sign along the pilgrim pathway the church is traveling to identify the awful apostasy that was on the way at the time and which in our time has now arrived. What was then like a cloud the size of a man’s hand today envelops the sky and produces a storm of hurricane proportions. Peter warns of heresy among teachers; Paul warns of heresy among the laity.”