Let’s open to EXODUS 13-14.
Yesterday we heard of the final plague— including the death of the firstborn and 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.
Turning to JOB 37:
This is the conclusion of Elihu's speech.
We turn for the first time to 2nd PETER.
Yesterday in James 5, 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!
This 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 tells 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.”
Translation note:
1 From Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ—
To those who through the righteousness of _our God and Savior Jesus Christ_ have been given a [way of believing//faith] as precious as ours:
One has to be very observant to pick up from the GNT above that Peter designates Jesus as _both_ our God and our Savior. That Jesus is being named as God is quite clear in the Greek. In our translation into Indonesian we made that clear by isolating the idea in a separate sentence.
PET: 1-2 Dear Brothers and Sisters of mine in the faith— namely you who have been blessed by God so that you fully believe in Christ Jesus just like we do. And because of believing you’re blessed abundantly just like we have— in that we have been saved through what Christ Jesus did to make us righteous. _He is our God and Savior!_
3 God's divine power has given us everything we need to live a [godly//truly religious] life through our knowledge of the one who called us to share in his own glory and goodness.
4 In [that//this] way he has given us the very great and precious [promises//gifts he promised], so that by means of [those promises//these gifts] you may escape from the destructive lust that is in the world, and may come to share the divine nature.
PET 20 Above all else, however, remember that [no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. (See NIV.)//none of us can explain by ourselves a prophecy in the Scriptures. ]
GNT gives a different interpretation than what most translations follow. I think GNT’s interpretation of this verse is possible, but less likely to be right as the majority one.
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