EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/29/2025
6:15 PM
My
Worship Time Focus:
PT-3 “Intro
to “The certainty of the Second Coming”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference:
2 Peter
3:1-10
Message of the verses: “1 ¶
Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle, in which I stir up your
pure minds by way of remembrance, 2 to
be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets,
and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, 3 knowing
this first, that scoffers will come in the last days, walking after their own
lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the
promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as
they were from the beginning of creation.” 5 For this, they are willingly ignorant:
that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the
earth standing out of the water and in the water, 6 by which the world that then was,
perished, being flooded with water. 7
But the heavens and the earth, which now are kept by the
same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition
of ungodly men. 8 But, beloved, do not be ignorant of this one thing,
that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a
thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his
promise, as some men count slackness, but is longsuffering towards us,
not willing that any should perish but that all men
should come to repentance. 10 But
the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in
which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the
elements will melt with fervent heat; also the earth and the
works in it will be burned up.”
I’m hoping to finish this
introduction from the verses above as there are not a lot of verses to look up
in this last section.
“Of course, the devil also
recognizes how important this doctrine is to the church. When Christians live in anticipation of
Christ’s promised return, they demonstrate spiritual zeal and enthusiasm,
recognizing that they will soon give an account to their Master (Rom. 13:11; 1
Tim. 6:14; 2 Tim. 4:5).”
(Rom. 13:11; 1 Tim. 6:14; 2 Tim. 4:5)
“11 ¶ And do this, knowing the time, that it
is already the hour that we are awakened out of sleep; for
now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.”
14 that you keep this commandment
without spot, blameless until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,”
“5 But you, be watchful in all things, endure
afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry.”
“As the
apostle John wrote, it is a purifying hope (1 John 3:3).”
(1 John 3:3)
“3 And every man who has this hope in him
purifies himself, even as he is pure.”
“But, when
believers forget about the second coming and begin focusing instead on the
things of this world, they become absorbed in the temporal and grow apathetic
and cold toward the eternal. Satan knows
that if he can get the church to discount the importance of Christ’s return, or
even completely deny its reality, he can remove a very significant source of
Christian hope and motivation. To that
end the devil continually places skeptics and false teachers within the church,
men who reject, minimize, or alter Jesus’ promise. Such cynics who plague Christendom today were
also around in Peter’s time.
“In 3:1-10, Peter responds directly
to the false teachers’ attacks. First,
he considers the fallacious arguments they made against the second coming. Second, he answers those allegations,
providing counter-arguments which support Christ’s return. Finally, he
concludes by assuring his readers that , no matter what the heretics say, God’s
future judgment is certain.”
I totally believe this is a tactic
of Satan as he uses other things to keep the minds of believers off the truth
of Christ’s second coming. I have to
say, and have said this before that when the Lord saved me He used messages
from Hal Lindsey which were all on the second coming of Jesus Christ. I can look back at that time when I was
visiting a friend of mine in Florida and it was his idea to let me listen to
some cassette tapes which Hal Lindsey did two years after he had published his
book “The Late Great Planet Earth.” He
had gone to different colleges to give out the saving gospel of Jesus Christ
and had his messages taped and my friend got them from a former boss of his,
and when I was there allowed me to listen to them. God changed my life during that visit to my
high school friend who lived up the street from me. The major theme of those tapes were about the
second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ at the rapture. It is a subject that I still love to read and
study about and have written many Spiritual Diaries on that wonderful subject.
12/29/2025
6:33 PM
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