Like Paul (Rom 1:1, Titus 1:1) ....
Simon Peter was a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ:
2 Peter 1:1-a Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ,
Like Paul wrote to all the saints in Rome (Rom 1:7) about the mutual faith of them and him (Rom 1:12) ....
Like Paul wrote to the church of God with all the saints, about having the same spirit of faith (2 Cor 4:13) according as it was written in the Psalms (Psa 116:10) ....
Like Paul wrote to Titus after the common faith (Titus 1:4) ....
Like Jude wrote of the common salvation (Jude 1:3) ....
Simon Peter wrote to ones of like precious faith:
2 Peter 1:1-b to them that have obtained like precious faith with us
What do they have in common?
Like Paul wrote (Rom 1:16-17, 3:21-22; 2 Cor 5:21) of God’s imputed righteousness by faith in Christ ....
Peter’s readers were united the same way (Eph 2:18, Rom 10:12):
2 Peter 1:1-c through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
Did Paul write to the Jews? Well, did Peter? Is this epistle of Peter’s addressed to the Jews? Notice again to WHOM Peter addressed his epistle .... because ‘mid-Acts-ers’ say that Peter wrote to the JEWS .... NOT the Gentiles. However, the SALUTATION does not say, nor indicate, that:
2 Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
Like Paul (Rom 1:7, 1 Cor 1:3, 2 Cor 1:2, Gal 1:3, Eph 1:2, Phil 1:2, Col 1:2, 1 Thess 1:1, 2 Thess 1:2, Titus 1:4, Phile 1:3) ....
Simon Peter sent grace and peace to his readers (1 Pet 1:2):
2 Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
Did Paul write to the Jews? Well, is this epistle of Peter’s addressed to the Jews? (2 Pet 1:1)
‘WHOEVER’ Peter wrote this epistle to .... Paul ALSO wrote to the SAME people:
2 Pet 3:15-16 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
16-a As also in all his epistles,
speaking in them of these things; (plural)
(Of WHAT things?
Of the things Peter wrote about during this whole chapter.
Like Peter .... Paul wrote "of these things" too:
--- the last days (2 Pet 3:3 and 2 Tim 3:1)
--- the promise of the Lord’s coming (2 Pet 3:4 and 1 Cor 1:7, 15:23; 1 Thess 2:19, 3:13, 4:15, 5:23; 2 Thess 2:1,8)
--- the day of judgment (2 Pet 2:9, 3:7 and Rom 2:5,16; 2 Thess 1:7-9; Acts 17:31)
--- the longsuffering of God to bring about repentance (2 Pet 3:9,15 and Rom 2:4, 9:22; 1 Tim 1:16, 2 Tim 2:25)
--- the day of the Lord (2 Pet 3:10 and 1 Thess 5:2)
--- looking for such things (2 Pet 3:14 and Titus 2:13, Phil 3:20-21)
--- being in peace in Christ (2 Pet 3:14 and Eph 2:14-17, 6:16; Rom 5:1, 10:15)
--- being without spot (2 Pet 3:14 and Eph 5:27, 1 Tim 6:14)
--- being blameless (2 Pet 3:14 and 1 Cor 1:8, Phil 2:15-16, 1 Thess 5:23, 3:13)
--- beware of falling from stedfastness (2 Pet 3:17 and Phil 3:2, Col 1:23, 2:5,8; 2 Tim 4:15, 2 Cor 11:3, 1 Cor 15:58, Eph 4:14)
--- the knowledge of Christ (2 Pet 3:18 and Eph 4:15, Col 1:10, Phil 3:8)
(2 Pet 3:16-b) in which are some things (plural) hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
‘Mid-Acts-ers’ use 2 Pet 3:15-16 to say that since Peter was under the law, he said the things Paul wrote under grace, were hard to understand.
‘Mid-Acts-ers’ also teach that Peter told the scoffers that if they wanted to know why God delayed His coming, then go read Paul to learn about the mystery program interrupting the prophecy program, by putting it in abeyance.
‘Mid-Acts-ers’ say that the only thing -singular- (not "things" -plural- as 2 Pet 3:16 says) that Peter was saying that Paul also wrote about, was God’s longsuffering because the dispensation of grace and the ‘rapture’ are holding back the wrath to come.
‘Mid-Acts-ers’ are wrong about "these things" (2 Pet 3:16) that they try to make singular (longsuffering) rather than plural (a list of various things).
‘Mid-Acts-ers’ are wrong about Peter and Paul not ministering to the same people, because sometimes they did, as evidenced at Corinth:
1 Cor 1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith,
I am of Paul; and I of Apollos;
and I of Cephas (Peter - John 1:42); and I of Christ.
"According to the scriptures," Peter and Paul both preached the same gospel about Christ’s death and resurrection that was "according to the scriptures":
1 Cor 15:3-5,11 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
5 And that he was seen of Cephas (Peter), then of the twelve:
11 Therefore whether it were I (Paul) or they (Peter and the others named in the passage), so we preach, and so ye believed.
This is David Dowell, saying, "Think about it!"
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