II Peter 1:16a

"For we have not followed cunningly devised fables,..." Now you know that's what the scoffer claims the Bible is. Well, how can anybody be so foolish when we know that this Book is so intricately put together. Intricately! It all fits. And then they try to tell us that it was all concocted around the campfires of antiquity and some of these foolish statements. But Peter hits the nail on the head.


II Peter 1:16

"For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty."


Lest you think I've been stretching the envelope when I've been stressing all the time that these little epistles are looking forward to the coming of Christ again - now remember He's been crucified, He's ascended back to Glory - and, during these writings, we're in those years just after that. And so they know there are seven years of Tribulation that are ahead of them, and then He's going to return and yet set up the Kingdom, which we would call now the Second Coming. But turn with me to the little book of Jude. Only one chapter, verse 14. And I find it to be an interesting verse. Remember Jude is in the same category as Peter, James and John. And he writes:


Jude 1:14

"And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints," Well what was that? That's a reference to His Second Coming and it's what Peter is referring to that He's going to be coming with power and glory.


All right, so that's what Peter is referring to as we read in verse 16. "For we've made known to you the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." They know that He's coming. Even though Peter has now realized that he probably won't live to see it because he's going to be martyred. But for these people to whom he's writing, they can still expect everything to happen in their lifetime. All right, reading on in verse 16: