2 Peter 3 8-18

 a paraphrased ‘enter the story’

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05/25 ~ From New Testament Letters

   (In the Order Believed Written)

8 - But don’t overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. {This logically doesn’t mean every day is code for a millennium.. BUT! I do think our heavenly Father/Creator has fixed 6 millennia for things to run course. No option to stray in Eden and we’d be an ant farm? After this unavoidable (entropic) contrast has run its course, then a Sabbath millennium as a rest from evil and enmity, followed by “the last great day” an “8th day” Rev.20, but which is described like the crests of waves and not much of the in between. So an outline, the week plus one. A second outline, within this first one is the ancient Spring and Fall holy days, as the first (brief) and the second (long) advent of Jesus - Leviticus chapter 23.}

     9 The Lord isn’t slow to fulfill his promise as some might think of slowness, but he is patient, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. {And that all that might be born will be born?} 10 But the day of the LORD will come {surreptitiously} like a thief. And then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be revealed. [The three mentions of lake of fire, are at huge fiery events. The last one is in Revelation, 21, verses 1-5, the fiery regenesis. The first is at armageddon battle. Prophecy descriptions are sometimes described as their full effects, their first and last effects in a a sort of swirl. Aka, here, and “the seals”.]

     11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be, living lives of truth, goodness and godliness, 12 while expectantly waiting for the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! [Rev.21:1-5] 13 But according to his promise! We are waiting for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness will be at home. {And rule..}

     14 Therefore, beloved, since you’re waiting for these {the world’s armageddon.. and the much later regenesis when God says “behold! I make all new!” And after which, “the bear will graze with the cow, and the lion will eat straw like the ox” Isaiah 11:7} be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish - and at peace. 15 And think of the patience of our LORD as salvation [soteria - welfare, deliverance, preservation, prosperity, salvation, safety]. This is just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given to him, 16 as he writes in his letters, when he writes  of these matters, in which there are some things hard to understand, which the unknowing and unstable twist {get confused} to their own ruin, as they do the other Scriptures. 17 You therefore, beloved, knowing all this beforehand, take care that you’re not carried away with the error of lawless people. And lose your own stability. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

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Tomorrows verses - 2 Timothy 1:1-9

My own studies, had to paraphrase to post..

Start the day with a Psalm (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150)

FROM THE PROPHETS - Isaiah

Part 6 — conclusion, next study, Daniel

     ~~ Isaiah sees God’s throne in the temple.. his radiant train of light fills the temple as well as smoke from the glory.. Seraphim call “holy, holy, holy” to one another and the sound makes the foundations of the earthly temple to shake..

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Isaiah was calling for Judah to turn back to faithfulness to God, and to declare the coming Messiah “Immanuel”.

      Chapters 1-39, Isaiah points out the errors of both North and South Kingdoms of Israel, and declares consequences to them and the neighboring nations.. “Cease to do evil” (1:16). “The Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel” (7:14, Mt:1:22-24).

     Chapters 40-55 - the return and restoration after the exile from Babylon. “There is no God beside Me” (44:6,8; 45:5,6,14,18,21). Messiah will come and bring new life through His death, “He was oppressed and afflicted, yet did not open His mouth, like a lamb led to slaughter, and a sheep silent before its shearer..” (53:7).

•    Chapters 56-66 - The new Heavens and Earth, great reward for  trusting and obeying God.. hope for the suffering and judgment for the evil - “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things (waywardness) will not be remembered nor come to mind” (65:17).     

                  Part 5 

  The ‘great ones’ sowed, now reap. 

  Disclaimer - The Prophets May Not Be For The Timid

     2:6 Lord, you have abandoned your people.. ..They are full of superstitions from the east, and practice divination ..they embrace pagan customs. 7 The land is full of silver and gold ..there’s no end to their treasures ..no end to their chariots. 8 The land is full of idols.. 9 So people will be brought low ..everyone humbled.. 10 Go into the rocks (Rev.6) hide in the ground from the fearful presence of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty! (Code for fiery capabilities of war, element of revelation’s seal six. Is there anything that truly humbles? Other than ones own consequences? ..Both individual and collective.) 11 The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled and human pride brought low, the Lord alone will be exalted in that day. 12 The Lord Almighty has a day in store for the proud and lofty, and all who are exalted ..every lofty tower and every fortified wall, 16 for every trading ship and every stately vessel. (Trade. $ity and Tower Babble “on seven hills”/continents.) 17 The arrogance of man will be brought low and human pride humbled 18 ..and the idols will totally disappear [chalaph: to pass on or away ..Idols - 📞 abolished, altered, changed, cut off, gone forward, grown up, be over, pass away.] 19 People will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the earth ..when he rises to shake the earth. 20 In that day people will throw away their idols of silver and gold, made to worship. 21  They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging cliffs�..when he rises to shake the earth. 22 Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nose. Why hold them in esteem?

     CROSS REFERENCES - Revelation 6 — 12. I (John) watched as he OPENED the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the full moon turned blood red, 13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, like figs from a fig tree, when, shaken (thus blown) by a mighty wind. 14 The heavens receded [apochórizó - separated, parted, swept aside) like a scroll being rolled. And every mountain and island moved. 15 Then the kings of earth, the great ones, and generals, the rich, and the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of mountains. 16 They called to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us! Hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?!” (The seals of Revelation are described at their first occurrence, as their FULL effects - first to last, veiling what they are, especially the sixth seal.)

    (Back to Isaiah) 3:9 they parade their sin (the ‘great ones’ setting the trends?) 9 .. They have brought disaster upon themselves. 10 Tell the righteous - it will be well with them - for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds. 11 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what theiR hands have done. 12 Youths oppress my people, women rule over them. My people, your guides lead you astray, they turn you from the path. 4:5 Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion, and over those who assemble there, a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night, over everything the glory will be a canopy.  (Mt. Zion is often a spiritual ‘place’. Whereas Mt. of Olives, the literal Earthly place.) 6 The canopy will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the (fiery?) storm and (acid?) rain (Is.24:20). Rev.7:16.

     5:8 Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until you live alone in (and own all) the land. 9 Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left empty. 17 Sheep will graze there, as in their own pasture. Lambs will feed among the ruins of the rich. 20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil ..23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent ..30 if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress, even the sun will be overshadowed by clouds. (Prophet Joel’s smoky day? Revelation’s sun covered, red moon/moon reflecting red?) (In shorthand? The mighty of Earth will indeed ignite Armageddon battle. Which will turn out to be their, and the world’s, and the wrong way’s judgment/reaping what you sow. Other bible speak, drinking a cup.. Rev.16:13-16, Mt.13:30, Is.24:20.)

             Part 4

1:31 - “The mighty will be as tinder and their works a spark which no person can put out. (Verse 15 - Even if you offer prayers, I will not listen, your hands are full of blood. — Micah 3:6,7 - “The day will go dark for them, they will cover their faces because there is no answer from elohim [the]gods.”)

     2:1 This is what Isaiah, son of Amoz has seen concerning Jerusalem and Judah. 2 It shall come to pass, in latter days [acharith - the after-part, end] the mountain of the house of Yahweh will be established in the highest mountains and exalted above the hills, and all nations will flow to it. 3 Many people will come and say, “Come! Let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his way, and we’ll walk in his paths, for out of Zion will go forth his law [torah - direction, instruction, law, from yara (or Yarah) to throw, shoot (at a target?)] and will go forth the word [dabar - speech, word] of Yahweh from Jerusalem. 4 He will judge between nations, and settle disputes. They will beat their swords into plowshares (the V plows of old) and their spears into gardening tools. 5 Come let us walk in the light of Yahweh.

Part 3

1:21 - How the faithful city has become a prostitute. Her streets used to be full of righteousness and justice, but now murderers lodge in her. (So tell me history doesn’t repeat, thus prophecy. Story of every city.)  [Think of prophecy as prophecy. Not a curse being proclaimed.]  22 The value of your silver/money has fallen away.. 25 But I will turn my hand upon you and purge away your dross. 28 The crashing [sheber - breaking, fracturing, breaching, crushing (or) crashing] of the rebels and sinners [chatta - from chata - to miss, go wrong] will be together. Those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed. (Cross reference - 2Pet.3:10, 2Thes.1:7-8, a first mention of a lake of fire. 🤔Order, crash, fiery event, a seal six event, but what the seal is, is veiled by its description as its entire effects, first to very last.) 30 You will be like an oak tree whose leaves have faded, like a garden with no water.. [In the prophets, usually the order is, the path of destruction pointed out, that the city, the people are on, and what will occur if the way isn’t changed - prophecy, cause and effect, not a curse - followed by verses about restoration, reconciliation and blessing. Rescue! Through a Messiah, and “savior of the world”.] (God’s other option? To avoid such calamity? A robotic ant farm?)

                  Part 2

1:3 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger/trough, but Israel (and humanity) does not know, my people do not understand.” (And any nation, especially its leaders, though separated (“set apart”) to birth the Messiah/Savior would have also rejected him when he showed up humble, homeless, and threatening of their worldly status.) 4 ..They have forsaken ..turned their backs.. and (thus?) sinful they are. 5 ..The whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint. 6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness/battered from head to foot— only bruises, wounds, and sores, not cleansed, bandaged or soothed with olive oil. 7 Your country lies in ruins, and your towns are burned. Foreigners plunder your fields before your eyes as overthrown by strangers. 8 Beautiful Jerusalem stands abandoned.. 9 Unless the LORD Almighty had left us some survivors.. 11 ..I take no pleasure in your sacrifices.. 12 who asked you to trample my courts? 13 ..wickedness in the sacred meeting.. 14 the new moon feasts, the holy day festivals.. a burden to me.. 15 Your hands are full of blood, I do not hear your prayers though they become many. 16 ..Stop doing wrong.. 17 Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow. 18 “Come now, let’s settle this,” says the LORD. “Though your sins [chet - wrongs, from chata - to miss, go wrong, wrongs] are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow.. as white as wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land. 1:20 But if you turn away and refuse to listen, the sword devours. And accordingly has spoken the LORD. ____________________

Isaiah Part 1

1:1 These are the visions that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem during the years of four kings. (Listed in the verse.) 2 The LORD (God) has said, "Listen, oh heaven and earth! The children I raised have turned against me. (Israel is the micro, global is the macro.)

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(The Order is w/ Largest For Winter)

4 - SPRING -- after restoration / 536-400 -- Haggai Zechariah Malachi

1 - SUMMER -- pre-assyria / 9-800 BC -- (Elijah Elisha) Jonah Joel Amos Hosea

2 - FALL --assyria / 900-625 -- Isaiah Micah Nahum Zephaniah

3 - WINTER -- babylon / 625-536 --  Jeremiah Habakkuk Ezekiel Obadiah Daniel