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were with Him on the holy mountain. And so we have the prophetic
word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a
lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning
star arises in your hearts.”

Peter had a prophetic word. He couldn’t make it more true. But he
said that, “Now we have a prophetic word more sure. It can’t be
more true but now something happened that made something true
more certain.” And Peter identifies what that was. He said, “One
day I had a prophetic word. A week later I had a revelation of Jesus
and now I understand how to study the Bible. I have the word and
the revelation.”

2 Peter 1:19 also gives another word for the Bible. He calls it “a
lamp shining in a dark place”. He says, “You have the prophetic
word, you have the Bible and you have the lamp but is it more sure?
Is it more sure because now you have a revelation of Jesus?” In
verse 19 he says, “Pay attention to the lamp,” until what? “Until the
day star arises in your heart.”

Do you understand what the day star is? Revelation 22:16, “I, Jesus,
have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I
am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star.”
Jesus calls Himself “the morning star” Jesus is the Day Star. The
day star is the last star and it says, “Goodbye night; hello day!” It
closes the night and it opens the day. Peter says, “Pay attention to
this book until the day star arises in your heart and that will become
a new day for you.” Many people only have the prophetic word. It
can’t be more true. So, they study the prophetic word and they have
good doctrine and they teach that Jesus is coming back and they
teach that Jesus is God and they teach the virgin birth and the bodily
resurrection. They have the prophetic word but they aren’t seeing
Jesus. They have no revelation.

Jesus said, “Pay attention to this book until the day star rises in your
heart.” Brothers and sisters in Christ, are you seeing Christ in the