The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks. Studying
Genesis in the SSnet.org series Lesson 3, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to
your heart. The Topic today is: "1
Peter and his last time thoughts to some suffering trails in his days" The Opening
Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God" The Sabbath
School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on
page 35 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 26. The SSnet.org
site allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose
your own language to see God speaking also to your heart. ---One may be
led to think in the lesson that Peter is just talking local. Albeit. Not so. ---Read the
verses of 1 Peter 1 very carefully and you will see that his eye is on the
"hope" and on the "to be revealed in the last time" and on
the Second Coming of Christ. ---He even use
the expression that their current suffering is for a short while "for a
little while." ---Peter knows
very well about prophetic times. ---His eyes are
on the obtaining of imperishable and undefiled things that will not fade away. ---Preterists
and Calvinists have interpreted the whole book of 1 Peter through the lense of
the letter to these specific churches and various trials they suffer in chapter
1:1-1. Thus, everywhere in the book they go back to these sentences to
interpret those words of "suffering" or "trail" or the
same. They push all thinking back to the first century. ---Not so.
Peter mentions the Second Coming and Last Times expressly here to these people
he is writing to. One should not miss it. A true Adventist will not miss it. ---Peter was
witness of Matthew 24 and Mark 13 and Luke 21 when Jesus outlined the prophetic
times of Daniel [and Revelation] in advance of history throughout days to come
until eternity come. ---The new
heaven and new earth that will not fade away as Isaiah foretold is well in
Peter's mind in the first chapter. ---Preterists
grab history books and analyze the persecutions of Christians in the first
century and stick to this focus. Adventists do not. The double vision is clear
in the phraseology. ---The double
vision of Peter has a Primary focus which is the Second Coming of Christ and
Last Day events and prophetic events predicted by Christ. The Secondary focus
is the people of his own day. ---Reformed
Theologians put the horse behind the wagon by making Primary as Secondary and Secondary
as Primary.