Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

1Pet.1:20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,
1:21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

Here we see a pervasive truth that the apostle Peter states, as do all the disciples of Christ whom wrote letters in the Greeks scriptures, which is, they were living in the “end times”! Hence, in their times were the last days! How shocking is that for someone who does not know the bible writings, and/or are associated with a religion which has predicts the end of the world as something new, for their generation?

If a person loves God for truth, than such questions cannot be simply dismissed in saying apostles of Christ were just over-zealous in writing that they lived in the end times, no! How foolish would that be, while at the same time claiming, out of the other side of their mouth the Holy writings are inspired by God? So if we love truth we must apply the truth as it is stated. Hence, these brother sister in Christ, were living in the last days. The Jewish system came to a violent end at the hands of the Roman Empire in 70C.E.

But still there is another thought about Peters uses of the words end times, and that would be, God no longer using the physical nation of Israel as his instrument for truth and pure worship had it had already end upon the Resurrection of Christ Jesus, years before this writing of Peters. God transferred Spiritual present, into Christ Jesus, and his body members, after his murder of Christ by the hands of Israel leaders. Peter here reminds the brothers and sisters of just that, in context to his whole letter. Which context is, Christ the superior temple of God, their reality, by faith existed now in heaven at God's right hand. Henceforth, worshiping God can no longer be by flesh blood at a physical place on earth, one must now look to heaven, the unseen, and worship in Spirit and truth in Christ Jesus.

2 Peter 1:4 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

No longer could these brothers and sister look to the magnificent temple of God where all the prophets, and kings of Israel went too worship, no! They must take the hard course putting faith in God alone. God had ended the temple service, now they awaited its destruction. But no harm would come to these brothers and sisters, because they had no need in going to the physical temple of Isreal for worship. No, they were in the greater spiritual temple of God, they worshiped with two or more, in Spirit and truth seeing the reality God's spiritual gifts in Holy Spirit indwelling them, thus, having the real jewels of God heavenly Kingdom, the Jerusalem above, in hearts transformed into precious living stones, everlasting glorifying their King YHWH.

Revelation 21:19 The foundations of the city's wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire{or, lapis lazuli}; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

1 Peter 3:4 but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

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