GIVEN
VALUABLE INFORMATION
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
1. The Gap
Theory
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)
1 Thess 4:17
Rev 21:1
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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