Promises of Salvation and Destruction: Peter declares prophecy to know

Promises of Salvation and Destruction

Peter declares prophecy to know- learn it at our own discretion and care

I am half a century old, more or less! In China I am certainly fifty, according to their method of counting. I am still four months from that mark here in the West. In my life I have seen and I have experienced some things. I believe and trust in many things that I have accessed and acquired over my lifetime, some of which can seem outlandish and non-rational to many so called rational thinkers. I understand that. I have rational beliefs, like most people, but I also have some beliefs that the majority of mankind does not share, and makes me unique. Some of those beliefs are encapsulated in the organization of which I am a member, and some are my own. I am a Christian, and I believe in the truthes of Jesus and His holy anointed and chosen of the Old and New Testaments.

English is the lingua franca of my land and much of the world; I wish to share some of the King James version of mentions of promise and promises of the Holy Bible and other Holy Writ.

Find the word twice below in the highlighted purple, and place it in its proper context. Do we know what this means? I challenge you and me to discover the answers.

JST, 2 Peter 3:3–13. Compare 2 Peter 3:3–13

In the last days, many people will deny the Lord Jesus Christ. When He comes, many natural calamities will happen. If we endure in righteousness, we will receive a new earth.

3 Knowing this first, that in the last days there shall come scoffers, walking after their own lusts.

4 Denying the Lord Jesus Christ, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things must continue as they are, and have continued as they are from the beginning of the creation.

5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that of old the heavens, and the earth standing in the water and out of the water, were created by the word of God;

6 And by the word of God, the world that then was, being overflowed with water perished;

7 But the heavens, and the earth which are now, are kept in store by the same word, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

8 But concerning the coming of the Lord, beloved, I would not have you ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise and coming, as some men count slackness; but long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall shake, and the earth also shall tremble, and the mountains shall melt, and pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be filled with fervent heat; the earth also shall be filled, and the corruptible works which are therein shall be burned up.

11 If then all these things shall be destroyed, what manner of persons ought ye to be in holy conduct and godliness,

12 Looking unto, and preparing for the day of the coming of the Lord wherein the corruptible things of the heavens being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the mountains shall melt with fervent heat?

13 Nevertheless, if we shall endure, we shall be kept according to his promise. And we look for a new heavens, and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.

What is this promise of which there is prominent mention?

We must explore and research further...