EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/10/2025 7:10 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-3 “God’s Supernatural Revelation”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Peter 1:19-21
Message of the verses: “19 So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. 20 But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, 21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.”
This is a long section so it will take me a number of SD’s to finish this section. I will begin where I left off yesterday.
“The expression the prophetic word in Peter’s day embraced the entire Old Testament. The expression extends beyond the passages of predictive prophecy to include all the inspired Word, which in general anticipated the coming of Messiah, as Paul made clear when he wrote:
25 Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past, 26 but now is manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith; 27 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen” (Romans 16:25-27, the last verses in Romans.)
Himself affirmed that reality, saying, ‘You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me’ (John 5:39; cf. Luke 24:27, 44-45). While the Lord was primarily speaking of Old Testament Scripture, the words are not limited to that. Scripture is Scripture, and what is true of the Old Testament is also true of the New Testament Scripture (cf. 2 Peter 3:15-16, in which Peter calls the writings of Paul Scripture).
Now we want to look at the following and then comment on it Do well to pay attention to the prophetic word, as Peter asserts that this is what his readers should be doing. Now if they were going to be exposed to the subtle errors of the false teachers, it was then imperative that they know and carefully pay attention to Scripture so that they could reject the false teachings. I have told this story a few times in my Spiritual Diaries, but it is appropriate to do it here. When a person is learning to be a bank teller, in their training they learn everything that they can about the current bills of money and that is so that they will be able to find a phony or counterfeit bill in a hurry. Here are some verses to look at that go along with this: (Ps. 17:4; Acts 18:28; Eph. 6:11, 17; cf. Matt. 4:4; 22:29; 1 Cor. 10:11; Rev. 22:19). To make his point even more direct, Peter offered a simple metaphor, comparing God’s Word to a lamp shining in a dark place. The figure of speech recalls the psalmist’s familiar words, “Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Ps. 119:105; cf. v. 130; 43:3; Prov. 6:23). Dark is the Greek word translated from (auchmeros) and its meaning which came from the original idea of this word, “dry,” or “parched,” then “dirty,” or “murky.” Now the phrase dark place encompasses the murky blackness of the fallen world that prevents people from seeing the truth, that is until the lamp of divine revelation shines through, as seen in Psalm 119:105 “Nun. Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.” Nun is the Hebrew number as the Psalmist was starting each word in a series of verses with the same Hebrew letter.
Lord willing I will continue to look at this section in my next Evening SD.
11/10/2025 7:47 PM
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