A verse for 3/2/12

3/2/12

2Pe 1:13  I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder,

2Pe 1:14  since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

“As our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.” Most likely means;

A. A.  Peter was about to die

B.  B. Peter’s home was about to be destroyed

C. C.  Peter would live for many more years

D. D.  Peter is still alive today

Most people would choose option “A” and least likely to choose “D” That being said, consider another passage in which Jesus revealed something to an apostle which was soon to take place.

Rev 1:1  The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place.

So here we have Jesus revealing two events to two different apostles, and each event is to take place “soon.”

In the case of Peter, if we were to say that event would take place at least two thousand years later, we would be laughed at. And yet, many laugh at the suggestion that the events of Revelation did indeed take place soon after it was written. Can we have it both ways? If we don’t believe that Peter is still living today, why are we looking for the events of Revelation to be fulfilled today, instead of soon after the book was written?

Think about that, today!