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| The Lord is not willing that any of His children among the Jews, the specific audience the Apostle Peter is addressing, should become unbelieving and perish in the prophesied destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD, but that all should come to repentance. |
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April
4, 2020
2Peter 3:9
The
Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is
longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all
should come to repentance.
“The
Lo
The
perishing or not perishing (i.e. being saved from the perishing) is conditioned
upon repentance and faith exercised by His redeemed people; that's clearly
temporal salvation.
None,
no, not even a single of the Lord's redeemed will perish in His second coming. The
second coming has to do with the eternal salvation of God’s people, their
glorification and entering into their eternal inheritance.
Christ
said, "For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will
of him that sent me. And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of
all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again
at the last day." John 6:38-39.
Romans
8:29-30 declares the same truth, "For whom he did foreknow, he also did
predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also
called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them
he also glorified."
1Peter 1
3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his
abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled,
and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.
Their
repentance and faith through the ministry of the Apostles would most certainly
save them from being slaughtered and roasted by the Roman armies in the fiery
judgment prophesied by Christ in Mt 24.
May the Lord grant you understanding. Amen.
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Take a look at an exposition on 2Pet 3
https://things-new-and-old.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-brief-exposition-of-2peter-3-part-1.html
https://things-new-and-old.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-brief-exposition-of-2pet-3-part-2-v5-9.html
