This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you;
in both which I stir up your pure minds
by way of rembembrance: that ye may be
mindful of the words which were spoken
before by the holy prophets, and of
the commandment of us the apostles
of the Lord and Savior; knowing this first,
that there shall come in the last days scoffers,
walking after their own lusts, and saying,
Where is the promise of His coming? For since
the fathers fell asleep, all things continue
as they were from the beginning of the creation.
2Peter 3:1-4
Before I begin I will not be able to write my blog on Monday as I am going back to the Veterans hospital in Palo Alto to have my surgery looked at and any reconstruction necessary. So far the cancer does not look like it is returning so all is good.
This blog is also one that is attempting to stir up your minds, to aid you in your growth as an Authentic Christian and that you will change from the inside/out, converting complete conversion to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.We have the words of the prophets of God in the days before Christ, and we have the words written to us under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit by those men who walked and talked with Jesus some three years. We also have the inspired writings of men who were companions of those apostles and they too under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit were guided to add that which God wills for us to have in knowing Him, the Savior, and how we are to exercise our faith.
Our conversion, this changing from the inside/out and the growing of our faith does not come in a vacuum for there are those who scoff at us, at Christianity and even are doing all they can to eliminate Christianity from the world. Not just Islam, but those Atheist who demand that God be removed from the earth, even from Islam. This attempt to harm, to remove, to eliminate people of God is not a new thing as it has been the thrust of those who do not believe in the God of the Bible from old, until now and will continue until the Last Day when Jesus comes for His bride and destroys Satan and this satanic world. I have been asked this question several times: When is Jesus returning? Why is He waiting so long? Does He, if He is God, really care about all this suffering? Good questions! Do you have an answer? Well, I hope to give you information to be able to defend your faith: (1Peter 3:15).
Peter gives us and answer: "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: wehreby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth, wheich are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day ofjudgment and perdition of ungodly men" (2Peter 3:5-7). Atheist, and even many nominal Christians question that the world was deluged by water both from the heavens and from under the earth. They believe in an old earth theory, whereas Authentic Christians from Scripture find that the earth is not as old as those scoffers speak. Those ignorant persons do not believe that God will destroy this world and scoff at the Bible that teaches us that God will destroy this world, not just the physical earth for earth can and is used of people and those scoffers are being reserved for judgment and perdition (the Greek word literally means destruction). Perdition may mislead you as it carries the meaning of a state of final spiritual ruin, loss of the soul, damnation. But this is not what perdition meant in older days, it meant destruction. This Greek word in the analytical states: consumption, desstruction; waste, profusion, a state of being destroyed. Why I make sure that you understood this word is that "perdition" has become a theologial term and some give several different meanings to it but the Greek is clear: God will destroy the ungodly.
How have ungodly men atempt to destroy Christianity? By several means and one such mean is to reframe our educational system to line up with the Humanist Manifesto which clearly is an attempt to teach our children, even you who have gone through the education system in the last 40-50 years. This system has found its way into the Common Core approach to education. Children are taught about attitudes more that aptitudes. History has been rewritten to fit this change as how children see the world. God has been removed from or educational system and Pantheism, Atheisim, and multiculturalism, inclusiveness, diversity, are being taught and final, evolution is taught as truth when in fact: even the evolutionists are divided on evolution, they do not have a consensus as to the age, or how the earth, the universe came to be. They have not an answer and they have not any proof, they only have an hypothesis that has not and cannot be proved. We on the other hand have Scripture that says that God created all that is created and we have proof: the creation just as the men of old: Moses in this case, wrote under the guidance of God so that we would not be ignorant of how created all that exists. God says He created trees: trees exist. God says He created animals: animals exist. God says that He destroyed the world by a global flood: we have evidence of this flood all around the earth. Scoff as they like: We do not need to be intiminated by them for we have the truth of God's word, a truth based on the fact that all that has been written in the Bible cannot be disproved and all that He said would come to pass has come to pass. We now can be assured that that which He says will happen to the ungodly: will happen! All that wil happen to the godly: will happen!
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1a
Add to your faith: knowledge: knowledge of the true God
Richard L. Crumb
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