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Therefore I intend to keep on reminding you of these things, though you know them already and are established in the truth that has come to you.
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since I know that my death will come soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
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Eyewitnesses of Christ’s Glory
For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of his majesty.
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We ourselves heard this voice come from heaven, while we were with him on the holy mountain.
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For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment;
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and if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction and made them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;
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For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was passed on to them.
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The Promise of the Lord’s Coming
This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you; in them I am trying to arouse your sincere intention by reminding you
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that you should remember the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken through your apostles.
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First of all you must understand this, that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and indulging their own lusts
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and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since our ancestors died, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation!”
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The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance.
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But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.
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waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set ablaze and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire?
