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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 Bible? The indwelling Holy Spirit takes the
written word and unveils the Living Word. And the Living
Word reveals God. God has called us to know Him and He has
made every provision to make this Bible live. If you just study
the Bible to know the Bible, you are going to become more