SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/27/2024 7:15 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
“An Unprecedented Alteration”
Bible Reading & Meditation
Reference: Matthew 24:35a
Message of the verse: “Heaven and earth will pass away”
This SD will be very short as it is Saturday, and my
wife and I have been on vacation in Maui, Hawaii for a few weeks staying at her
sister’s house as she and her husband are in Antarctica on a vacation.
I have to say that studying the prophetic sections of the
Bible is something that I truly enjoy doing.
On my other blog where I publish things that I have written earlier I am
posting my study of the book of Daniel, and at home in our Sunday school I am
teaching through the book of Zechariah.
I have mentioned that it was through the end-time prophecies that the
Lord got my attention and used them to draw myself to Him 50 years ago
yesterday to which I am eternally grateful.
As many of you know on my blog that I am writing to at this time I am
studying the book of Matthew and am in my fifth year of studying it and it just
so happens that I am in the 24th chapter of the book of Matthew
which along with chapter 25 are what is called “The Olivet Discourse” and the
reason is that the Lord Jesus Christ is talking to His disciples on the Mount
of Olives and the things that He is teaching them, and us as to do with the end
times of what is called the Tribulation period.
I think that it is best because of the shortness of what is found in
MacArthur’s commentary on this partial verse that I just quote what he has
written.
“Jesus says explicitly that both heaven and earth will
pass away. That expression first appears
in 5:18, where it is not primarily used as a prophecy but as an analogy to
express the enduring quality of the Word of God. It is used similarly in this text. The universe will fail, but what Jesus has
just said will not fail to come to complete fulfillment. That analogical use of this phrase does not,
however, preclude a directly prophetic intent.
It is clearly predicted in the Old and New Testaments that the universe
will be dramatically affected in the divine judgment of God. But that even will occur a thousand years
after the return of Christ, when heaven and earth as we now know them will
cease to exist (ct. 2 Peter 3:10; Rev. 21:1).”
I want to look at these two verses and then comment on
the one from 2 Peter 3:10.
10 But the day of the Lord will
come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the
elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will
be burned up (2 Pet. 3:10).
1 Then I saw a new heaven and a
new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is
no longer any sea (Rev. 21:1).
I want to focus in on the word “elements”
in 2 Peter 3:10 and look at its meaning in the Greek and how this Greek word is
pronounced as seen in the Strongs concordance.
4747 στοιχεῖον
stoicheion stoy-khi’-on
1) any first thing, from which the
others belonging to some series or composite whole take their rise, an element,
first principal e.g. the elements, rudiments, primary and fundamental
principles of any art, science, or discipline {He 5:12 }
1a) the elements of religious training,
or the cermonial precepts common alike to the worship of the Jews and of the
Gentiles {Ga 4:3,9 }
1b) the ceremonial requirements esp. of
the Jewish tradition, minutely set forth by theophists and false teachers, and
fortified by specious arguments {Col
2:8,20 }
1c) the
principles and practices of the old covanent world order {2Pe 3:10,12 }
I have mentioned that I was searching for how
this world would end when the Lord Jesus Christ saved me. One of the things that I learned very early
on in my study of the Word of God comes from this word “stoy-khin’on” and the
term that I learned was similar to what is found in Strongs. Basic building block is how I was taught what
this word meant and then was told that the basic building block of the universe
is the “atom.” Then I was taught that no
one knows how the atom is held together, and the way that it was explained to
me came from an example of a magnet. You
put a north and south part of the magnet together and they stick together, even
jump to be able to touch each other. You
put two North’s or two South’s together and the repel. That is what I was told are in the inside of
the “atom” and that is why no one knows what hold the atom together. When these elements “atoms” are let loose as
seen in 2 Peter 3:10 then the universe will be like one very large atomic bomb
and it will burn up.
1/27/2024 7:53 AM
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