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SURE WORD OF PROPHECY. 19

and stimulates us to work with all our might that we may
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save some. Most, if not all, of the evangelists of our day
are animated by this doctrine, and surely their work is
practical.
Again, Peter says, "We have a more sure word of proph-
ecy*, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed (as unto
a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn,
8 t and he exhorts
and the day star arise) in your hearts" ;*
us to be mindful of these words. 49 Therefore we are not
speculating when we prayerfully study prophecy.
*Gr. We have the prophetic word more confirmed.
tSee Tregelles' punctuation.
the word of God the heavens 11. Seeing then that all these
were of old, and the earth stand- things shall be dissolved, what
ing out of the water and in the manner of persons ought ye to
be in all holy conversation and
water :
6. Whereby the world that godliness,
then was, being overflowed with 12. Looking for and hasting
unto the coming of the day of
water, perished :
7. But the heavens and the God, wherein the heavens being
on
earth, which are now, by the fire shall be dissolved, and
same word are kept in store, the elements shall melt with fer-
reserved unto fire against the vent heat? Cor. 9:22. To the
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day of judgment and perdition weak became
of ungodly men. I weak ; that I
might gain the weak : I am made
3. But, beloved, be not igno-
that
to
all men,
all
things
rant of this one thing, that one might by all means save some. I
day is with the Lord as a thou- (48) 2 1:19. We have
sand years, and a thousand years Pet,
also a more sure word of proph-
as one day.
ecy ; whereunto ye do well that
9. The Lord is not slack con- ye take heed, as unto a light
cerning his promise, as some that shineth in a dark place,
men count slackness ; but is until the day dawn, and the day-
" not
~igsuflering to us-ward, star arise in your hearts :
willing that any should perish, (49) 2 Pet. 3:1. This second
but that all should come to epistle, beloved, I now write unto
repentance. you ; in both which I stir up
10. But the day of the Lord your pure minds by way of re-
will come as a thief in the membrance :
night : in the which the heavens 2. That ye may be mindful of
shall pass away with a great the words which were spoken be-
noise, and the elements shall fore by the holy prophets, and
melt with fervent heat, the earth of the commandment of us the
also and the works that are apostles of the Lord and Sa-
therein shall be burned up. vior.