Tara-Leigh Cobble

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Peter speaks to them and says, look around, guys.

Someone made all of this.

He destroyed it once with water and then brought it all back around again.

And someday he's coming back, and that's going to happen all over again, except next time with fire instead of water.

And you're saying, where is he then if he's coming back?

But his timetable for things is different than yours.

He's actually taking this along because he's being patient with you.

His timeframe is giving you an opportunity to repent.

He'll come when you don't expect it, and all of this will be burned up, heaven and earth.

But his kids will be preserved from judgment and will live with him in the new heaven and new earth when they're recreated.

After he finishes his speech to the scoffers, he speaks to God's kids and says, "'You know this is going to happen.

You're a believer, not a scoffer.

So what does the life of a believer look like?'

He tells them to live in holiness and peace.

Then he references the letters of Paul and says, "'Paul's letters are kind of hard to understand sometimes, aren't they?

Lots of people twist them and take them out of context, and honestly, it's because they're ignorant and unstable, and it's not going to go well for them in the end.

But it's no surprise, because that's what they do with the other scriptures too.'"

Did you catch that?

In 3.16, Peter refers to Paul's letters as Scripture.