St. Peter wrote this epistle some where between 62-66 A.D. and very clearly relays our current global situation. The message might be old, but the relevance of it is as relevant as when he wrote it. The warning he gives those future inhabitants of the world seems to have been highly ignored today.
The Virgin Mary's messages, which range between 1848-1917, from La Sallete to Fatima, also speak about this coming cleansing through Fire, but here too, the message is ignored by the majority.
Last night, Fidel Castro spoke as if with fire in his eyes, to relay this warning that a major nuclear war is getting ready to break out due to the coming conflict with Iran, that will spin out of control and ignite the whole world. But sadly, most reporters/commentators can not see past their noses, as all they seemed to do was talk about his physical appearance, and others tore him down for not mentioning the local Cuban issues that they seem to hold as more important than an impending nuclear World War!
The world, in majority lies asleep, while the fire is being fanned.
Chapter 1, 2nd Peter:
1 Shimon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to (the Gentiles) who have obtained the same precious faith as us through the righteousness of God, and our Savior Jesus Christ:
2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord.
3 Through Christ’s divine power, he has given us all we need to walk in life and godliness through our ever-increasing knowledge of Him who called us to glory and goodness.
4 Through that power, you also have been given very great and precious promises, so that through them you might be conformed to his divine nature, having escaped the (soul-polluting) corruption of the world and the deceitful desires those in it yearn for.
5 Besides this, be diligent to add a high moral standard to your faith along with (God’s sort of) knowledge.
6 To (God’s sort of) knowledge, add self-control. And to self-control, add patience. And to patience, add godliness.
7 To godliness, add compassion for your brethren. And to compassion for your brethren, add love (and giving).
8 For if these traits abound in you, they will place you in position to never be barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But the person who lacks these qualities is (spiritually) blind, and cannot see past his own nose, for he has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 So don’t be like that, brethren. Instead, make every effort to secure your calling and election by pursuing these things, and you will never fall--
11 And a warm welcome will await you in the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
12 Thus, I will not neglect constantly reiterating these things to you, though you’ve heard them before and are standing in the truth even now.
13 Indeed, I think it good, so long as I am alive in the tent of this earthly body, to re-ignite the fire of zeal in you by reminding you of these things.
14 For I know that shortly I will leave this body behind, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.
15 I want to make sure that after my departure you will never forget these things.
16 For we were not following cunningly designed myths when we proclaimed the power and incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ--we were actually eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received honor and glory from God the Father when a voice issued forth from His incomprehensible radiance that said: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”
18 And this Bat Kol (--heavenly voice--) we heard with our own ears when we were with him in the Holy Mount.
19 We thus have a more certain verification of the prophetic word found in the Scriptures, which you are doing well to heed as a light that shines in the darkness until the day dawns and the daystar arises in your hearts.
19 (Alternate reading): But we have a more certain “word” than that, which you are doing well to heed as a light that shines in the darkness until the day dawns and the daystar arises in your hearts. (That “word” is the Scriptures.)
20 First, know this: No prophecy in the Scriptures ever loosed forth through the prophet’s own private (understanding, speculation, or intention).
21 For prophecy did not, in the olden days, come forth by human will. Instead, holy men of God spoke as the Holy Spirit moved them to speak.
Chapter 2
1 But there were false prophets in those days among the people, as there will be false teachers among you today--who will slip in damnable heresies, including even a denial of the Lord who purchased them (with his blood), bringing upon themselves swift destruction!
2 Many will imitate their licentious behavior, and because of this, “The Way of Truth” will be blasphemed (by outsiders).
3 In their greed, they will speak with lying tongues of flattery, and strip you of all your goods. But their judgment and condemnation has been decreed from long ago, and will not be put off.
4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned (by cohabiting with humans), but cast them down into Tartarus, where they are chained in utter darkness until their time of judgment...
5 And if God did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, the eighth of those on the Ark--who was a preacher of righteousness--while sending the flood upon the world of the ungodly...
6 And if He turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemning and overthrowing them, thus making them an example to those who afterward would live in an ungodly manner...
7-9 And if He delivered only Lot, a just man who was grieved at the debauched lifestyle of the wicked there, for that righteous man who dwelt among them, seeing and hearing what was going on, was grieved in his honorable soul as he watched their evil deeds day after day...then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trials while appointing the unjust to receive punishment on the Day of Judgment!
10 And the ones who will be especially punished are those who walk after the flesh in unclean sexual lust, and despise any rule over them. They are arrogant, self-willed, and have no fear of mocking the angels (who oversee church propriety).
11 But even the angels, who are greater in power and might (than mere humans), don’t make any railing accusations against these people before the Lord.
12 But these people, like dumb animals fit only to be taken and slaughtered, disrespect and criticize what they don’t understand, and shall utterly perish in their own corruption.
13 They will reap the reward of unrighteousness (just as freely) as they think nothing of debauchery in broad daylight. They are spotted and wrinkled (like unclean sacrifices not fit for God), glorying in their deception while they feast alongside you.
14 Their eyes are ever open to sexual sin, and they cannot turn from unrighteousness. They deceive unstable people, and are cursed children with hearts of greed,
15 Who have forsaken the right way and gone off path, walking down the road of Balaam, son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.
16 But he was rebuked for his iniquity when his mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice to criticize this prophet’s madness.
17 These people are empty wells. They are waterless clouds blown about in a storm, to whom everlasting darkness awaits.
18 For when they speak their arrogant words of vanity, they entice back into sin those who have just escaped such error and become clean, by appealing to the wanton lust of their flesh.
19 While they promise them freedom, these men are nothing more than slaves of corruption, for a man is enslaved by what he lets overcome him.
20 And if, after someone has escaped the pollution of the (unsaved) world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, his ultimate end is far worse if he becomes entangled in unrighteousness again.
21 It is better for such people to have never known the path of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn from the holy commandment (--to repent, and be holy as He is holy--) that was delivered to them.
22 In their case, the proverbs are true that: The dog is turned to his own vomit again. And: The sow that was washed, (returned) to her wallowing in the mire.
Chapter 3
1-2 This second letter, beloved, I have written, hoping again to stir up your pure minds to remember the words spoken of in the past by the holy prophets; and to recall the commandment given by we apostles of the Lord and Savior:
3-4 First, be aware that in the last days scoffers, walking in their own lusts, will arise, saying: “Where is the promise of his second coming? Since our ancestors died, nothing has changed since the world began--it’s always the same!”
5 But they choose to willingly be ignorant that by God’s command, the universe was created in the olden times, and the earth itself was formed out of water and by water--
6 And through water the older world was destroyed (in Noah’s time).
7 But the present heavens and the earth, by the same spoken command of God, are being reserved for the eventual fate of being consumed by fire in the Day of Judgment, when ungodly men will go down to perdition.
8 But, beloved, don’t be ignorant of the fact that, from God’s perspective, One day to Him is as a thousand years to us, and a thousand years to us is like one day to Him.
9 The Lord is not slow regarding His promise as some men count slowness. But He is patient to humanity, not wanting any to be lost, but desiring that all men should repent.
10 But when the Lord does come, that day will come like a thief in the night! On that day the cosmos will pass away with a great roar as the building blocks of the universe melt with tremendous heat. The earth also, and everything in it, will be consumed in that fire.
11-12 So, given the fact that all we see will dissolve in destruction, what sort of person should you be with respect to living a godly lifestyle as you look for and eagerly await the Day of God, when the skies of the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved in great heat along with building blocks of the universe?
11-12 (Alternate reading): So, given the fact that all we see will dissolve in destruction, what sort of person should you be with respect to living a godly lifestyle as you look for and hasten the Day of God, when the skies of the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved in great heat along with building blocks of the universe?
13 Even so we, according to the promise Christ made, look forward to a new universe and a new earth, where righteousness will dwell.
14 Because of your looking forward to this, beloved, be diligent to maintain your lifestyle in such a way that he can find you in peace, being spotless and blameless.
15 And consider that the forbearance of the Lord in returning is for the purpose of saving people, even as our beloved brother Paul, using the wisdom given him, has written to you as well,
16 Speaking of things like this in all his
epistles, though some things he says are hard to understand, and the unlearned and non-committed twist his words--as they do the other Scriptures--to their own destruction.
17 Beloved, since you have always known these things, beware, lest you also--being led away by the error of the wicked--abandon your own perseverance.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen.
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Virgin Mary's Days of Darkness Message: Her message from Lourdes, La Sallete and Fatima all basically have the same message.
" Hurricanes of fire will rain forth from heaven and spread over all the earth. Fear will seize mortals at the sight of these clouds of fire, and great will their cries of lamentation be. Many godless will burn in the open fields like withered grass.
God's wrath will be poured out upon the whole world, the chastisment will be terrible, such as never before and will afflict the entire earth."
1 Shimon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to (the Gentiles) who have obtained the same precious faith as us through the righteousness of God, and our Savior Jesus Christ:
2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord.
3 Through Christ’s divine power, he has given us all we need to walk in life and godliness through our ever-increasing knowledge of Him who called us to glory and goodness.
4 Through that power, you also have been given very great and precious promises, so that through them you might be conformed to his divine nature, having escaped the (soul-polluting) corruption of the world and the deceitful desires those in it yearn for.
5 Besides this, be diligent to add a high moral standard to your faith along with (God’s sort of) knowledge.
6 To (God’s sort of) knowledge, add self-control. And to self-control, add patience. And to patience, add godliness.
7 To godliness, add compassion for your brethren. And to compassion for your brethren, add love (and giving).
8 For if these traits abound in you, they will place you in position to never be barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But the person who lacks these qualities is (spiritually) blind, and cannot see past his own nose, for he has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 So don’t be like that, brethren. Instead, make every effort to secure your calling and election by pursuing these things, and you will never fall--
11 And a warm welcome will await you in the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
12 Thus, I will not neglect constantly reiterating these things to you, though you’ve heard them before and are standing in the truth even now.
13 Indeed, I think it good, so long as I am alive in the tent of this earthly body, to re-ignite the fire of zeal in you by reminding you of these things.
14 For I know that shortly I will leave this body behind, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.
15 I want to make sure that after my departure you will never forget these things.
16 For we were not following cunningly designed myths when we proclaimed the power and incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ--we were actually eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received honor and glory from God the Father when a voice issued forth from His incomprehensible radiance that said: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”
18 And this Bat Kol (--heavenly voice--) we heard with our own ears when we were with him in the Holy Mount.
19 We thus have a more certain verification of the prophetic word found in the Scriptures, which you are doing well to heed as a light that shines in the darkness until the day dawns and the daystar arises in your hearts.
19 (Alternate reading): But we have a more certain “word” than that, which you are doing well to heed as a light that shines in the darkness until the day dawns and the daystar arises in your hearts. (That “word” is the Scriptures.)
20 First, know this: No prophecy in the Scriptures ever loosed forth through the prophet’s own private (understanding, speculation, or intention).
21 For prophecy did not, in the olden days, come forth by human will. Instead, holy men of God spoke as the Holy Spirit moved them to speak.
Chapter 2
1 But there were false prophets in those days among the people, as there will be false teachers among you today--who will slip in damnable heresies, including even a denial of the Lord who purchased them (with his blood), bringing upon themselves swift destruction!
2 Many will imitate their licentious behavior, and because of this, “The Way of Truth” will be blasphemed (by outsiders).
3 In their greed, they will speak with lying tongues of flattery, and strip you of all your goods. But their judgment and condemnation has been decreed from long ago, and will not be put off.
4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned (by cohabiting with humans), but cast them down into Tartarus, where they are chained in utter darkness until their time of judgment...
5 And if God did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, the eighth of those on the Ark--who was a preacher of righteousness--while sending the flood upon the world of the ungodly...
6 And if He turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemning and overthrowing them, thus making them an example to those who afterward would live in an ungodly manner...
7-9 And if He delivered only Lot, a just man who was grieved at the debauched lifestyle of the wicked there, for that righteous man who dwelt among them, seeing and hearing what was going on, was grieved in his honorable soul as he watched their evil deeds day after day...then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trials while appointing the unjust to receive punishment on the Day of Judgment!
10 And the ones who will be especially punished are those who walk after the flesh in unclean sexual lust, and despise any rule over them. They are arrogant, self-willed, and have no fear of mocking the angels (who oversee church propriety).
11 But even the angels, who are greater in power and might (than mere humans), don’t make any railing accusations against these people before the Lord.
12 But these people, like dumb animals fit only to be taken and slaughtered, disrespect and criticize what they don’t understand, and shall utterly perish in their own corruption.
13 They will reap the reward of unrighteousness (just as freely) as they think nothing of debauchery in broad daylight. They are spotted and wrinkled (like unclean sacrifices not fit for God), glorying in their deception while they feast alongside you.
14 Their eyes are ever open to sexual sin, and they cannot turn from unrighteousness. They deceive unstable people, and are cursed children with hearts of greed,
15 Who have forsaken the right way and gone off path, walking down the road of Balaam, son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.
16 But he was rebuked for his iniquity when his mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice to criticize this prophet’s madness.
17 These people are empty wells. They are waterless clouds blown about in a storm, to whom everlasting darkness awaits.
18 For when they speak their arrogant words of vanity, they entice back into sin those who have just escaped such error and become clean, by appealing to the wanton lust of their flesh.
19 While they promise them freedom, these men are nothing more than slaves of corruption, for a man is enslaved by what he lets overcome him.
20 And if, after someone has escaped the pollution of the (unsaved) world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, his ultimate end is far worse if he becomes entangled in unrighteousness again.
21 It is better for such people to have never known the path of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn from the holy commandment (--to repent, and be holy as He is holy--) that was delivered to them.
22 In their case, the proverbs are true that: The dog is turned to his own vomit again. And: The sow that was washed, (returned) to her wallowing in the mire.
Chapter 3
1-2 This second letter, beloved, I have written, hoping again to stir up your pure minds to remember the words spoken of in the past by the holy prophets; and to recall the commandment given by we apostles of the Lord and Savior:
3-4 First, be aware that in the last days scoffers, walking in their own lusts, will arise, saying: “Where is the promise of his second coming? Since our ancestors died, nothing has changed since the world began--it’s always the same!”
5 But they choose to willingly be ignorant that by God’s command, the universe was created in the olden times, and the earth itself was formed out of water and by water--
6 And through water the older world was destroyed (in Noah’s time).
7 But the present heavens and the earth, by the same spoken command of God, are being reserved for the eventual fate of being consumed by fire in the Day of Judgment, when ungodly men will go down to perdition.
8 But, beloved, don’t be ignorant of the fact that, from God’s perspective, One day to Him is as a thousand years to us, and a thousand years to us is like one day to Him.
9 The Lord is not slow regarding His promise as some men count slowness. But He is patient to humanity, not wanting any to be lost, but desiring that all men should repent.
10 But when the Lord does come, that day will come like a thief in the night! On that day the cosmos will pass away with a great roar as the building blocks of the universe melt with tremendous heat. The earth also, and everything in it, will be consumed in that fire.
11-12 So, given the fact that all we see will dissolve in destruction, what sort of person should you be with respect to living a godly lifestyle as you look for and eagerly await the Day of God, when the skies of the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved in great heat along with building blocks of the universe?
11-12 (Alternate reading): So, given the fact that all we see will dissolve in destruction, what sort of person should you be with respect to living a godly lifestyle as you look for and hasten the Day of God, when the skies of the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved in great heat along with building blocks of the universe?
13 Even so we, according to the promise Christ made, look forward to a new universe and a new earth, where righteousness will dwell.
14 Because of your looking forward to this, beloved, be diligent to maintain your lifestyle in such a way that he can find you in peace, being spotless and blameless.
15 And consider that the forbearance of the Lord in returning is for the purpose of saving people, even as our beloved brother Paul, using the wisdom given him, has written to you as well,
16 Speaking of things like this in all his
epistles, though some things he says are hard to understand, and the unlearned and non-committed twist his words--as they do the other Scriptures--to their own destruction.
17 Beloved, since you have always known these things, beware, lest you also--being led away by the error of the wicked--abandon your own perseverance.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen.
==================================================================================
Virgin Mary's Days of Darkness Message: Her message from Lourdes, La Sallete and Fatima all basically have the same message.
" Hurricanes of fire will rain forth from heaven and spread over all the earth. Fear will seize mortals at the sight of these clouds of fire, and great will their cries of lamentation be. Many godless will burn in the open fields like withered grass.
God's wrath will be poured out upon the whole world, the chastisment will be terrible, such as never before and will afflict the entire earth."
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