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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.