EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/14/2025
7:20 PM
My
Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “Their
Practices”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2
Peter 2:13b-14
Message
of the verses: “as they
that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and
blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with
you; 14 Having eyes full of adultery,
and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have
exercised with covetous practices; cursed children” (KJV)
“They
count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime,
They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they
carouse with you, having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin,
enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children.”
(NASB)
Before I begin I have to say that doing my Spiritual Diaries on my new
computer has been a great deal of difficulty for me as the program from
Microsoft Word I was using was about 23 years old, and so not have the newest
version of MS Word has made my old brain rebel, but I am working on it so that
I can get back to where I was with my old Laptop, so bare with me as you may
see some mistakes. I successfully
downloaded the basic version of Online Bible, a program I have been using for
many, many years, but I still have some things to add to this program as right
now I only have the KJV of the Bible to use.
I promise that I will continue to work on this so that my Spiritual
Diaries can continue to be sent around the world for the cause of Christ.
John
MacArthur begins by writing something very resourceful: “As a general rule,
sinners tend to engage in debauchery at night:
“For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get
drunk get drunk at night”(1 Thess. 5:7).
According to historians, pagan Roman society tolerated dissipation
and revelry as long as it was discreetly confined to the cover of
darkness. But it frowned on and
disapproved of debauchery during the daytime when it could be viewed by
everyone.” I guess that in our country
(The USA) that we have gone a step further along, and that is all bad, for
debauchery goes on 24/7 in many cities and towns here, and I am sure that this
is very displeasing to the Lord. “Because
of its public nature, such behavior was considered inappropriate, even by Roman
unbelievers. Nonetheless, the false
teachers of Peter’s day were so consumed with lust, greed, and vice that they
considered it a pleasure to revel in
the daytime, not wanting to wait until nightfall.” That is such a shame, but one day the Lord
Jesus Christ will come to the clouds above planet earth and take His Church home
to be with Him in heaven, and then soon after that the antichrist will arise
when he makes a firm covenant with Israel to allow them to build their Temple
in Jerusalem, and then three and a half years later what is called the great
tribulation will begin as the antichrist will offer what some predict a pig on
the alter in the new temple and his covenant with Israel will be over. Three and a half years later the Lord Jesus
Christ will return with His bride to end the last world wide war. It will take the Lord about another 75 days
to prepare the earth for His Millennial Kingdom, as one of the things he will
do is send the Antichrist, the false prophet along with Satan into hell, along
with all unbelievers as He separates the sheep and the goats from each other
and the sheep will go into the Millennial kingdom and the goats into hell. I believe the earth will be similar to what
it was when God first created it as seen in the book of Genesis and that means
that believers may live until the Millennial Kingdom is over, but the
unbelievers of that time will be judged and then go into hell. There is some more things that will then
happen like the Great White Throne Judgment where all unbeliever will be sent
to hell after that is over. Our earth
and all we see in the sky will be destroyed which we will talk more about this
when we get to the third chapter of 2 Peter.
There will be a New heaven, a New earth, and a New Jerusalem as eternity
begins and will never end.
“In
light of their passion for perversion, Peter likened those spiritual charlatans
to stains and blemishes—two terms that speak of filthy spots, defects,
scabs, and things diseased. Like malignant
sores, the false teachers were reveling in their deceptions and openly
enjoying the fruit of their sin. At the
same time, they deceived those under their teaching influence (Rom. 16:18; 2
Tim. 3:13; Jude 16-19; cf. Jer. 23:26; 2 Cor. 11:13; 2 Thess. 2:10) by actively
promoting wickedness in the lives of their followers.” Ok I will not quote these verses that MacArthur
mentions above, but they will all be in the KJV of the Bible.
“18 For they that are such serve not our Lord
Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the
hearts of the simple.”
“13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and
worse, deceiving, and being deceived.”
“16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking
after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words,
having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage. 17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were
spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18 How that they told you there should be mockers
in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual,
having not the Spirit.”
“26 How long shall this be in the heart of
the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of
their own heart;”
“ 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful
workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.”
“10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness
in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they
might be saved.”
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