EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/23/2025 10:05 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “Sodom
and Gomorrah”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Jude 7
Message of the verse: “7 Even as Sodom
and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over
to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example,
suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”
“I am going to quote from the end of my Spiritual
Diary from yesterday and then after that will write some things that I promised
to write this evening: “The cities were set forth by God as an example and
warning to ungodly people today. The verb
set forth means ‘to expose openly to
public view.’ (Interestingly enough, the
word was used to describe a corpse lying in state!) But the cities of the plain
are not today in public view. It is generally agreed among archeologists
that Sodom and Gomorrah are buried under the southern end of the Dead Sea. How, then, do they serve as an example? In the
pages of the Word of God. No one can
read Genesis 18-19 without clearly seeing God’s hatred for sin and, at the same
time, His patience and willingness to postpone judgment. This certainly ties in with Peter’s explanation for God’s seeming delay
in fulfilling the promise of Christ’s return (2 Peter 3:8ff).”
“Those
verses at the end of 2 Peter 3, which ends that letter are very interesting to
me, but I don’t think that tonight is the time to go over them as there are
different things in them that would have to be explained. Perhaps tomorrow?”
Well
tomorrow is here and I will attempt to write what I learned from the verses at
the end of 2 Peter, as it has been a while since I looked at these verses, but
I hope to shed some light on what they say.
“8
But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the
Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day”(2 Peter 3:8).
It is my belief that this verse has been misinterpreted
by people, and I will tell you why. Now notice the two times that the word like
is used in this verse, as it does not say that a thousand years is one day, and
a thousand years is one day. Time in
heaven is certainly different than time here on earth for as the earth travels
around the sun and it takes 365.25 days to complete its course around the sun,
but as it travels around the sun it is spinning and it takes 24 hours to make a
complete revolution. We don’t know how
time is experienced in heaven, but it certainly is different than how it is on
earth. Now these are my thoughts. I think that when a believer dies and is then
taken to heaven by the angels, that say their spouse died 25 earth years later,
that when they come together in heaven it will only seem like a very short
time.
“9
The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient
toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. 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 Peter 3:9-10).
Verse
ten to me is speaking about the patience of God as God is waiting in heaven for
those whom He has chosen in eternity past to come to the Savior. Once that last person is saved in the Church
age then the rapture will take place which will end the church age which began
in the second chapter of Acts when the Holy Spirit came upon the believers who
were praying. As mentioned the rapture
will end the church age, and then shortly after that the Tribulation period
will begin when the antichrist is revealed.
That will last 7 years with 360 days in a year which is how Israel did
it in the Old Testament. At the end of
the Tribulation period is when the Lord Jesus Christ along with those
resurrected saints who were taken in the rapture will come on horses with the
Lord to end the Tribulation period. Now
this can be seen in the 19th chapter of the book of Revelation as
John writes “11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who
sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges
and wages war. 12 His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are
many diadems; and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except
Himself. 13 He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is
called The Word of God. 14 And the
armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were
following Him on white horses. 15 From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that
with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of
iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty”
(Rev. 19:11-15).
“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 Peter 3:10).
This verse is talking about the end of what is
called the Millennial Kingdom, which begins after the Lord returns in
Revelation 19, and it lasts for 1000 years, and this is the promised kingdom to
Israel. Peter is saying that at this
time the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed
with intense heat. I want to talk about
the word elements which in the Greek is stoy-khi’-on, and the word means basis building
blocks. Now the basic building block of
everything in the universe is the atom, and it is not known by scientist how
the atom is held together. Now take two magnets
which both have a negative and positive side to them. Putting the negative and the positive together
will cause the magnets to stick together, while putting two positive ends
together or two negative ends together will cause them to move away from each
other. Well the atoms are like that but
they do not go away from each other, so what hold them together? Well the answer is that the Lord holds them
together and at the end of the Millennial Kingdom He will lose them and they will
because the biggest nuclear explosion ever seen as the entire earth along with
the entire universe will be burned up.
Looks
like we will have to finish our lesson in Jude tomorrow, and I hope you enjoyed
the lesson from the end of 2 Peter.
6/23/2025 10:49 PM
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