EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/18/2025 8:14 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-12 “Introduction to 2 Peter”
I have been working on this introduction to 2 Peter since the 7th of September, and tonight’s SD will be the 12th edition to this introduction, something I have quoted from John MacArthur’s commentary for the most part with a few comments that I have put in also. We were looking at for the most part what we called “Petrine Authorship Disputed,” and in yesterday’s SD I finished looking at that with the conclusion that it was indeed Peter who wrote this letter, his second letter. I have mentioned that it is the Holy Spirit of God who is the author of Scripture as He moves the human authors to write what He desires for them to write, and so by knowing that I never had a doubt that 2 Peter was done like that, that is Peter was moved by the Holy Spirit to write what he wrote. The Holy Spirit of God uses the personalities of the human authors as they write these different books of the Bible, and perhaps that is why some have a problem with this. I remember when studying the Old Testament book of Isaiah, a book that has 66 chapters in it that I learned that one could call it a miniature Bible for in the first 39 chapters one can see the Old Testament pictured in it, but the last 27 chapters the author changes and then one can see some things that will happen in the New Testament, and some so-called scholars wanted to say that Isaiah had two different authors. Sometimes people just don’t realize how big a God that we have, as all one has to do is look at the six days of creation and see how God just spoke and creation came into existence, and I have to say that when I look at that I know that I am worshiping a powerful God, for one of His attributes is all powerful.
I think that I will just look at what MacArthur calls “Date, Place of Writing, and Destination,” and then in tomorrow evenings SD I will try and finish this introduction by looking at “Occasion,” and then “Outline,” to finish this introduction to 2 Peter, a book that desire to study for some time.
“Date, Place of Writing, and Destination”
“According to tradition, Peter suffered martyrdom near the end of Nero’s persecution. Because Nero died in A. D. 68, Peter’s death must have taken place before that time. Second Peter appears to have been written shortly before the apostle’s death (1:14), perhaps in A. D 67 or 68. Peter does not say where he was when he wrote this epistle. But since his death was imminent, and he was martyred in Rome, he probably wrote it while in prison there. Unlike the first epistle, 2 Peter does not name its recipients. However, since this was the second letter he had written them (3:1), they were likely the same people (or at least some of the same people) to whom 1 Peter was addressed, believers who lived in ‘Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia’ (1 Peter 1:1), provinces located in Asia Minor (Modern Turkey).”
I can add some things that I have heard about the death of Peter sometime ago, and what I learned was Peter and his wife were crucified on the same day, and Peter was made to watch his wife crucified, and after her death Peter wanted to be crucified upside down, and the reason was because Jesus was crucified right side up. This is kind of a heart breaking story.
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