2 Peter

I didn’t forget about you. The influenza bug hit our house and me specifically.  I am still running a low grade fever and ache like crazy, but had enough oomph to post.  Peter knows that he will soon die, but even with that knowledge, he is still trying to warn the church of false teachers.  Today, if we read it online we believe it must be true.  Peter warns us that even today you must weigh everything against Scripture to determine truth. – Cindy

2 PETER

AUTHOR:  The apostle Peter (1:1).

DATE:  Around the late 60s AD, shortly before Peter’s execution.

IN TEN WORDS OR LESS:  Beware of false teachers within the church.

DETAILS, PLEASE:  The Christian qualities of faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, patience, godliness, and love (1:2-8), couples with a reliance on scripture (1:19-21), will help believers avoid the false teachings of those who “privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them” (2:1).

QUOTABLE: We have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. (1:16)

UNIQUE AND UNUSUAL:  Peter wrote this letter knowing his death was near:  “Shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me” (1:14).

SO WHAT?  “Beware lest yea also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness” (3:17).