Dear 52 Greatest Chapter Small groups–
This week’s lesson is such a blessing. I hope you can spend this week asking God to remind you about these powerful lessons Peter Never Forgot!
As we open to 2 Peter 3, we are opening into Peter’s final session with the growing churches he had poured his life into. They were now scattered across the heart of the Roman Empire. They were facing both fiery trials and glittering allurements. They were torn between loyalty to Christ and painful persecutions or floating along with the world and its endless pursuits of pleasure and possessions. Peter’s congregation sounds eerily like the church in America of the 21st Century.
We can see that very little has changed from Peter’s Day to ours, and God’s Word speaks so clearly to our lives as it did to theirs, twenty centuries ago. That is the power of the supra-cultural timelessness of the Scriptures.
So, what were Peter’s lessons to them, and to us, by the power of the Spirit of God’s inspired Word? Peter targets them and us with a reminder that all of our homes, cars, collections, gadgets, trophies, treasures, investments, and anything else material in our lives face a future of fiery destruction by God Himself.
What Happens to the USA?
Five Sobering Possibilities:
1—We Align as Part of the Revived Roman Empire of the West.
2—We Implode Financially because of the 30+ Trillion Dollar Debt Bomb, break into smaller parts, and stop being powerful.
3—We Explode when Russia stops threatening and actually launches 2-4 of those Sarmat Missiles.
4—We Blackout under an EMP strike from China, N. Korea, Russia, or Iran.
5—We Dry out under the 1,200-year Mega-drought we see unfolding in the West right now.
(FTGC#48; 220609)
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