“DID
PETER MISS OUT?”
Just
as Esau didn’t get the ‘chocolates’ but still received a couple of
consolation
prizes (Genesis 27:39), Peter, although not having the ‘smarts’ of Paul
(2Peter
3:16), is given valuable information, not found elsewhere, for our
edification.
To wit:
1. The
‘gap’
flood theory
2. The
millennial
fire, the new heavens and earth, the day of God.
3. The spirits in prison
Dear
Reader, the following two verses taken together are the death knell for
the mythical
Gap Flood. As the context of both verses is the ‘old world’
– the
first verse mentions Noah and by association in the second,
Peter tells
us this is also Noah’s flood
“And
spared not the old world, but saved Noah the
eighth
person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon
the
world of the ungodly;” (2 Peter 2:5)
“ For this they willingly
are ignorant
of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the
earth
standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that
then was (the
old world), being overflowed with water, perished:” (2 Peter
3:5-6)
2. The
millennial
fire, hew heavens and earth, the day of God
“But
the day of the lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the
heavens
shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall
melt with
fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein
shall be
burned up (the
millennial fire). Seeing then
that all these things shall be dissolved, what
manner of
persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking
for and
hasting unto the coming of THE DAY OF GOD, wherein the heavens
being
on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with
fervent heat?
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for NEW HEAVENS AND
A NEW
EARTH, wherein dwelleth righteousness.” (2 Peter 3:10-13)
3. The
spirits in prison
These
spirits were the former angels cast out of heaven with
Lucifer.
The following two verses show these were the angels that were made
spirits
after leaving heaven.
“And
of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits,
and his
ministers a flame of fire.” (Hebrews 1:7)
After
God cast Lucifer’s angels out of heaven, he turned them into spirits,
and he cast
them into hell.
“By
which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison (the
fallen angels with Lucifer of Isaiah 14:14-15); Which sometime were
disobedient
(Jude 1:6), when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of
Noah,
while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls
(Noah
and family) were saved by water.” (1 Peter 3:19-20)
Dear
Reader, it’s comforting to know that God’s jigsaw of Bible verses helps
us
piece together the rich tapestry for a more complete knowledge and
understanding (Proverbs 25:2).
Harley Hitchcock
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