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said it.  I have no reason to doubt it.”  But a week later he had another
        experience.  He already had a true word but he is about to have a
        revelation of Jesus.  He had the true word but when Jesus showed
        up in all His glory he never put that together.

        Listen as he explains it in 2 Peter 1:16-19, “For we did not follow
        cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and
        coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His
        majesty.    For  when  He  received  honor  and  glory  from  God  the
        Father, such an utterance as this was made to Him by the Majestic
        Glory, ‘This is My beloved Son with whom I am well-pleased’ –
        and we ourselves heard this utterance made from heaven when we
        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
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