EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/09/2025/9:25
PM
My
Worship Time Focus: PT-1“The Pattern of Judgment”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2
Peter 2:9-10a
Message of the verses: “then the Lord knows how to rescue the
godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day
of judgment, and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires
and despise authority.”
This evening I begin the last section in this 6th
chapter of John MacArthur’s commentary on Peter’s second letter, and I have
already stated that 2 Peter, especially the middle verse of this letter is one
of my favorite chapters in the Word of God, mostly because of the prophecy that
Peter writes about in this second letter he wrote.
Now going back to something we
looked at earlier in verse four, Peter began a lengthy conditional clause
writes John MacArthur. “Now, in verse 9
and 10, he provides the conclusion—if (or since) God knew whom to
judge and whom to rescue in the past, then He certainly knows how to
do the same in the present and future.
“Centuries before Peter’s time,
Scripture established God’s pattern of judgment. The prophet Malachi wrote:
“Then those who feared the Lord
spoke to one another, and the Lord gave attention and heard it, and a book of remembrance
was written before Him for those who fear the Lord and who esteem His name “they
will be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts, “on the day that I prepare My own
possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves
him. So you will again distinguish
between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who
does not serve Him. For behold, the day
is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will
be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of
hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear My name, the sun of
righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and
skip about like caves from the stall.
You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles
of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the Lord of hosts.” (Mal.
3:16-4:3).
“Put
simply, the Lord knows how to judge the wicked while simultaneously preserving
His own (cf. Matt. 13:36-43; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 5:1-5).” I will quote these verses and then Lord
willing, I will finish this section in tomorrow’s SD. They will be done in the order listed above.
“The He
left the crows and went into the house.
And His disciples came to Him and said, ‘Explain to us the parable of
the tares of the field.’ And He said, “the
one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, and the field is the world; and as
for the good seed, these are the sons of the evil one; and the enemy
who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age; and the
reapers are angels. So just as the tares
are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the
age. The Son of Man will send forth His
angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all the stumbling blocks, and
those who commit lawlessness, and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in
that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. THEN THE RIGHTEOUS WILL SHINE FORTH AS THE
SUN IN THE KINGDOM OF THEIR Father.
He who has ears, let him hear.”
“But we
do not want you to be uninformed, brethren about those who are asleep, so that you
will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose
again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in
Jesus For this we say to you by the word
of the Lord that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will
not precede those who have fallen asleep.
For the Lord Himsel will descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up to meet the Lord
in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these
words.”
“Now as
to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written
to you. For you yourselves know full
well that the day of the Lord will come just as a thief in the night. While they are saying, “Peace and
safety! Then destruction will come upon
them suddenly like labor pains upon a soman with child, and they will not
escape. But you, brethren, and not in
darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief; for you are all sons of
light and sons of day. We are not of
night nor of darkness.”
12/9/2025
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