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Volgens hierdie definisie was Petrus ‘n valse profeet! Is Petrus se evangelie nie deel van die evangelie nie? Hy het gewaarsku, “Maar die teenswoordige hemele en die aarde is deur dieselfde woord as ‘n skat weggelê en word vir die vuur bewaar teen die dag van die oordeel en die verderf van die goddelose mense. Maar laat hierdie een ding julle nie ontgaan nie, geliefdes, dat een dag by die Here soos duisend jaar is en duisend jaar soos een dag. Die Here vertraag nie die belofte soos sommige dit vertraging ag nie, maar Hy is lankmoedig oor ons en wil nie hê dat sommige moet vergaan nie, maar dat almal tot bekering moet kom. Maar die dag van die Here sal kom soos ‘n dief in die nag, waarin die hemele met gedruis sal verbygaan en die elemente sal brand en vergaan, en die aarde en die werke wat daarop is, sal verbrand. Terwyl al heirdie dinge dan vergaan, hoedanig moet julle nie wees in heilige wandel en godsvrug nie? – julle wat die koms van die dag van God verwag en verhaas, waardeur die hemel deur vuur sal vergaan en die elemente sal brand en versmelt. Maar ons verwag volgens sy belofte nuwe hemele en ‘n nuwe aarde waarin geregtigheid woon” (2 Petrus 3:7-13).
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If Peter was resurrected and visited America today, he would be appalled by all the sugar-sweet, [cotton-candy] preaching of the pillow prophets! He would ask, "Why aren't they warning their people of the coming destruction? God gave me this message directly from the Holy Ghost! Why do they not believe it? Why aren't they provoking them to holy living with these warnings? Don't they know Jesus gave the same warning when He said the sun shall be darkened, the moon shall not give her light, and the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers of heaven shall be shaken" (Matthew 24:29)? Isaiah, the prophet, says, "And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine..." (Isaiah 34:4). John on Patmos tells us, "...and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs...and the heavens departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were removed out of their places" (Revelation 6:12-14).
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