Jensens survey of the old testament adam 590
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CHART 114: 2 PETER: TRUE AND FALSE
PROPHECY
The Man Who Knows God
I. Is Blessed for This Knowledge (1:1-2)
II. Acts on This Knowledge (1:3-11)
III. Should Not Forget What He knows (1:1215)
B. TRUE AND FALSE PROPHECY (1:16—
3:10)
Here Peter seeks to stir up his readers
concerning things present and things to
come. On the bright side, he reminds his
Christian readers of the inspiring prophecy
of Christ’s return. What are the di erent
references to this return in 1:16-21 and 3:110? On the dark side are his descriptions of
the shocking state and destiny of false
teachers and their followers. Observe how
each of the four sections under false prophets
(Chart 114) leads into the next section. For
example:
2:1-3. General Statement. “There will also
be false teachers”
2:4-10a. Law of Recompense. These
unrighteous men will reap judgment (just as
the righteous will be rewarded).
2:106-16. Description of the Unrighteous.
(The one group of 2:4-10a is singled out.)
2:17-22. Destiny of the Unrighteous.
(Their destiny is spelled out in more detail.)
C. DISSOLUTION OF THE PHYSICAL
WORLD (3:7-10)
Peter’s description of the cataclysmic
dissolution of the physical world is not a
strange picture to this twentieth-century
nuclear age. He writes that “the heavens will
pass away with a roar and the elements will
be destroyed with intense heat, and the
earth and its works will be burned up”
(3:10).
The prophecy of this cataclysm was
brought on by sco ers who challenged the
truthfulness of prophecies of Christ’s return,
“Where is the promise of His coming?”
(3:4). Peter answered by citing three
supernatural events that originated by
decree of God (word of God):
a. First. The universe was created (heavens
and earth, 3:5).5
b. Later. The world perished in the Flood
(3:6). (The word “whereby” connects the
Flood with God’s Word. Literally, the Greek
is “through which things,” i.e., through the
Word of God and the flood water.)6
c. Yet to come. Dissolution of the universe
“by the same word of God” (3:7). Peter cites
the Flood cataclysm to disprove historically
the status quo argument of the sco ers.
Having done that, Peter clinches his original
point by saying that history can and will
repeat itself — another cataclysm will take
place, at God’s command, in the “day of
judgment” (3:7).7 This will be the
dissolution of the universe. The day of the
