EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
12/01/2025/7:45 PM
My
Worship Time Focus: “The Promise of Judgment”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2
Peter 2:3b
Message
of the verses: “their judgment
from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
We are
looking at the first sup-point in John MacArthur’s commentary on his sixth chapter
of his commentary on 2 Peter, and this second chapter is different from the
first and third chapter as Peter talks more about the judgments that will come
upon those who are not following the Lord, but going against the Lord.
Although
false teachers will not face their eternal judgment until death, their
sentence was decreed by God from long ago, and this translates one word
which is the Greek word ekpalai, and this simply means “from a long
time.” Now throughout history, from the
very first pronouncement of judgment on the serpent which took place in the
Garden of Edon seen in Genesis 3:13-15, God has condemned all those who distort
divine truth (cf. Isa. 8:19-21; 28:15; Jer. 9:6-9; 14:14-15; Zeph. 3:1-8; Rev.
21:8, 27). Since I began to use my new
laptop I do not have all of my older programs yet transferred to it from my old
laptop, so I am unable at this time to quote a lot of verses yet. The expression from long ago strengthens
the sobering reality of divine retribution; God’s sentence against every lying
teacher is actively accumulation wrath until each perishes in hell, so I guess
it is safe to say that the longer they live and continue to sin that they will
have a great deal of judgment in the future.
With
the words destruction is not asleep, we that Peter personifies eternal damnation
as if it were an executioner, who remains fully awake, ready to administer God’s
just sentence of condemnation on those who falsify His Word. That is a very bad thing to do, falsifying
God’s Word, but that is what many false teachers do. I try to correctly quote the Word of God in
my Spiritual Diaries because the Word of God is God breathed meaning there is
no mistakes in it, that is in the original writings which to my understand that
in the NASB they do the upmost to make sure their translation is correct. I
have used the NASB translation for almost 50 years, and still believe it is the
best translation one can read.
12/1/2025 8:08 PM
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