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Henry: Welcome To Immerse: The
Daily Bible Reading Experience.

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Day 49.

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immersed in second, Peter and Jude.

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In the time since Peter's first letter
to the believers in Asia Minor, their

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persecution was likely on the rise.

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Emperor Nero had blamed the Christians
for a destructive fire in Rome and

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had unleashed a new attack on them.

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By this time, Peter recognized that like
Paul, he would also soon be executed as

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an eyewitness of Jesus life and ministry.

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Peter decides to put parts of
his testimony in writing for

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the sake of future generations.

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Specifically, Peter wants believers
to know that while Jesus was on

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earth, he had already displayed the
glory he will have when he returns.

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We were not making up clever stories
when we told you about the powerful

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coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Peter insists that he himself
saw the splendor of Christ openly

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revealed on the Holy Mountain
and heard God's voice declaring

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Jesus to be his dearly loved son.

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In addition to increasing persecution,
the churches faced another threat.

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False teachers had
infiltrated their communities.

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Peter tells the believers to watch
out for those who lure back into sin.

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Those who have barely escaped from
a lifestyle of deception, they

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promise freedom, but they themselves
are slaves of sin and corruption.

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These teachers were leading people
in into immorality by misrepresenting

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God's grace as a license for wrongdoing.

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On top of that, the believers faced still
another threat, which Peter addresses

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in the final part of this letter.

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Scoffers were saying that if Jesus
really was going to come back,

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he would have done so already.

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This seems to have been an excuse
for licentious living since

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there would be no final judgment
if Jesus was not coming back.

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Peter explains that God has
a good reason for the delay.

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His patience allows time for more
people to repent, so the believers

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should persevere in their longing
for the new world that will

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come with Christ's appearance.

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The new heavens and new Earth.

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A world filled with God's righteousness.

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Peter concludes by asking his
friends to be faithful in living,

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peaceful, pure, and blameless lives.

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He encourages them to grow in
the grace and knowledge of our

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Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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Notice that Peter's warning about the
false teachers echoes the language of

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a brief letter that Jude had written.

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Perhaps Peter was putting his authority as
an apostle behind Jude's similar warning.

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We get an even clearer picture of what
Peter is saying by reading Jude's letter.

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Jude was one of Jesus' half
brothers, though he humbly calls

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himself a slave of Jesus Christ.

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And a brother of James, whose name would
have been widely recognized as he was

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a leader of the church in Jerusalem.

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It's hard to be certain precisely
whom Jude was writing to since he

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addresses his readers simply as all
who have been called by God the father.

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But like Peter Jude feels an urgent
need to address the presence of

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false teachers in the churches.

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These teachers were saying that
God's grace permits immoral living,

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and Jude warns his readers to watch
out for these teachers because they

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are destined only for judgment.

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Those who follow Christ faithfully will
instead keep trusting in God who is

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able to keep you from falling away and
will bring you with great joy into his

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glorious presence without a single fault.

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The letter of second Peter,

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this letter is from Simon Peter, a
Slave and apostle of Jesus Christ.

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I am writing to you who share
the same precious faith we have.

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This faith was given to you because
of the justice and fairness of

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Jesus Christ, our God and Savior.

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May God give you more and more
grace and peace as you grow in your

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knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord,

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by his divine power, God has
given us everything we need

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for living a godly life.

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We have received all of this by
coming to know him, the one who

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called us to himself by means of
his marvelous glory and excellence.

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And because of his glory and
excellence, he has given us

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great and precious promises.

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These are the promises that
enable you to share his divine

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nature and escaped the world's
corruption caused by human desires.

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In view of all this, make every
effort to respond to God's promises.

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Supplement your faith with a generous
provision of moral excellence and moral

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excellence with knowledge and knowledge.

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With self-control and self-control.

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With patient endurance
and patient endurance.

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With godliness and godliness.

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With brotherly affection and brotherly
affection with love for everyone.

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The more you grow like this, the more
productive and useful you will be in

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your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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But those who failed, who develop
in this way are shortsighted or

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blind, forgetting that they have
been cleansed from their old sins.

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So dear brothers and sisters, work hard
to prove that you really are among those.

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God has called and chosen do these
things and you will never fall away.

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Then God will give you a grand
entrance into the eternal kingdom

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of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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Therefore, I will always remind you
about these things even though you

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already know them and are standing firm
and the truth you have been taught, and

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it is only right that I should keep on
reminding you, as long as I live for

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our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me that
I must soon leave this earthly life.

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So I will work hard to make
sure you always remember

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these things after I am gone.

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For, we were not making up clever stories.

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When we told you about the powerful
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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We saw his majestic
splendor with our own eyes.

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When he received honor and glory from God
the Father, the voice from the majestic

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glory of God said to him, this is my
dearly loved son who brings me great joy.

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We ourselves heard that voice
from heaven when we were with

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him on the Holy Mountain.

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Because of that experience, we
have even greater confidence in the

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message proclaimed by the prophets.

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You must pay close attention
to what they wrote for.

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Their words are like a lamp
shining in a dark place.

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Until the day Dawns and Christ, the
morning star shines in your hearts.

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Above all, you must realize that
no prophecy in scripture ever came

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from the prophet's own understanding
or from human initiative.

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No, those prophets were moved by the
Holy Spirit and they spoke from God, but

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there were also false prophets in Israel.

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Just as there will be false teachers
among you, they will cleverly

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teach destructive heresies and even
deny the master who bought them.

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In this way, they will bring
sudden destruction on themselves.

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Many will follow their evil
teaching and shameful immorality.

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And because of these teachers, the way of
truth will be slandered in their greed.

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They will make up clever lies
to get hold of your money.

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But God condemned them long ago and
their destruction will not be delayed.

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For God did not spare even the angels
who sinned, he threw them into hell in

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gloomy pits of darkness where they're
being held until the day of judgment

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and God did not spare the ancient world.

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Except for Noah and the
seven others in his family.

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Noah warned the world of
God's righteous judgment.

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So God protected Noah when he
destroyed the world of ungodly

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people with a vast flood.

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Later, God condemned the city's
of Sodom and Gomorrah and

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turned them into heaps of ashes.

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He made them an example of what
will happen to ungodly people.

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But God also rescued lot out of Sodom
because he was a righteous man who

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was sick of the shameful immorality
of the wicked people around him.

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Yes, lot was a righteous man who was
tormented in his soul by the wickedness

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he saw and heard day after day.

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So you see, the Lord knows how to rescue
Godly people from their trials, even

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while keeping the wicked under punishment
until the day of final judgment.

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He is especially hard on those who
follow their own twisted sexual

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desire and who despise authority.

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These people are proud and arrogant,
daring, even to scoff at supernatural

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beings without so much as trembling.

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But the angels who are far greater in
power and strength do not dare to bring

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from the Lord a charge of blasphemy
against those supernatural beings.

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These false teachers are like unthinking
animals, creatures of instinct,

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born to be caught and destroyed.

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They scoff at things they
do not understand, and like

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animals, they will be destroyed.

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Their destruction is their reward
for the harm they have done.

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They love to indulge in evil
pleasures in broad daylight.

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They are a disgrace and a stain among you.

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They delight in deception even as they
eat with you and your fellowship meals.

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They commit adultery with their eyes and
their desire for sin is never satisfied.

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They lure unstable people into sin,
and they are well trained in greed.

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They live under God's curse.

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They have wandered off the right road
and follow the footsteps of Balaam.

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Son of bor who loved to
earn money by doing wrong.

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But Baam was stopped from his
mad course when his donkey

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rebuked him with a human voice.

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These people are as useless as dried up
springs or as mist blown away by the wind.

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They are doomed to blackest darkness.

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They brag about themselves with
empty, foolish boasting with an

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appeal to twisted sexual desires.

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They lure back into seeing
those who have barely escaped

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from a lifestyle of deception.

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They promise freedom.

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They themselves are slaves
of sin and corruption.

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For you are a slave to
whatever controls you.

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And when people escape from the
wickedness of the world by knowing our

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Lord and savior Jesus Christ, and then
get tangled up and enslaved by sin

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again, they're worse off than before.

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It would be better if they had never
known the way to righteousness, then

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to know it and then reject the command
they were given to live a holy life.

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They proved the truth of this proverb.

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A dog returns to its vomit.

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And another says, A washed
pig returns to the mud.

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This is my second letter to you dear
friends, and in both of them, I have

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tried to stimulate your wholesome
thinking and refresh your memory.

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I want you to remember what
the holy prophets said long ago

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and what our Lord and Savior
commanded through your apostles.

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Most importantly, I want to remind
you that in the last days, scoffers

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will come mocking the truth and
following their own desires.

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They will say, what happened to the
promise that Jesus is coming again

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from before the times of our ancestors?

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Everything has remained the same
since the world was first created.

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They deliberately forget that God made
the heavens long ago by the word of his

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command, and he brought the earth out from
the water and surrounded it with water.

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Then he used the water to destroy the
ancient world with a mighty flood.

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And by the same word, the present heavens
and earth have been stored up for fire.

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They are being kept for the
day of judgment when ungodly

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people will be destroyed.

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But you must not forget this one
thing, dear friends, A day is like

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a thousand years to the Lord, and
a thousand years is like a day.

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The Lord isn't really being slow about
his promise as some people think.

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No, he's being patient for your sake.

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He does not want anyone to be
destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.

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But the day of the Lord will
come as unexpectedly as a thief.

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Then the heavens will pass away with
a terrible noise and the very elements

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themselves will disappear in fire
and the earth and everything on it

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will be found to deserve judgment.

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Since everything around us is going
to be destroyed like this, what holy

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and Godly lives, you should live
looking forward to the day of God

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and hurrying it along on that day, he
will set the heavens on fire and the

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elements will melt away in the flames.

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But we are looking forward to
the new heavens and new earth.

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He has promised a world filled with
God's righteousness and so dear friends.

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While you are waiting for these things
to happen, make every effort to be

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found living peaceful lives that
are pure and blameless in his sight.

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And remember, our Lord's patience
gives people time to be saved.

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This is what our beloved brother Paul also
wrote to you with the wisdom God gave him.

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Speaking of these things and all of his
letters, some of his comments are hard

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to understand and those who are ignorant
and unstable have twisted his letters

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to mean something quite different.

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Just as they do with other parts
of scripture, and this will

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result in their destruction.

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You already know these things
dear friends, so be on guard then.

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You will not be carried away by
the errors of these wicked people

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and lose your own secure footing.

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Rather, you must grow into grace
and knowledge of our Lord and

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Savior Jesus Christ, all glory
to him both now and forever.

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Amen.

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This concludes today's
Immer Reading experience.

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Thank you for joining us.