Even the best laid plans of mice and men can go awry, and I without the best laid plan, missed a house group this morning. The Bible portion for discussion was an interesting section: 2 Pt.1:12-21. Assuming Petrine authorship, we can see that Peter had big themes on his mind.
His core identity was in Christ. God the son became Christ by pitching his tent, so to speak, with humanity (Jhn.1:14). We could put the Greek there as making his home/residing; some C18-9 versions said tabernacled. Peter used the same word, skēnōma (noun form) In 2 Pt.13-4 it’s put a number of ways, including as tabernacle and bodily tent. Perhaps Peter used it as did John, as encapsulating glory, for Christians have Christ within—glory now, not just the hope of glory. Our mortal body is a tent with glory within.
Then Peter moved on to his death, but termed it as an exodus—so the Greek (2 Pt.1:15). On the Mount of Transfiguration (Mt. Meron?), Sinai witnesses had spoken of Yeshua’s exodus (CJB/NABRE/NLT: Lk.9:31): yes, Moses, representing one exodus, and Elijah, representing the prophetic voice of Canaan’s Israel, spoke of a greater exodus and Israel. Did Peter view death the same way, as a leaving Egypt for Canaan? And as had Jesus, Peter looked forward to crucifixion, by which it would be an honour to glorify God (Jhn.21:18-9). Peter looked back to that mountain experience as personally relevant (2 Pt.1:16). Is it so for us?
God the son noncarnate, became carnate, and incarnate was granted honour and glory from God his father (2 Pt.1:17). The Voice he heard was not the bath qol (daughter of the voice, an echo of former times), but the father’s voice which hadn’t spoken for centuries, witnessing to Jesus being his one-of-a-kind son on earth (Lk.3:22; 9:35): https://archive.org/details/the-fathers-gone-global-exploring-gods-heart-231212/mode/2up p64.
Jesus had confirmed the OT (the Tanak), which arguably had affirmed him as its core message (Jhn.5:39), and he implied scriptures to follow (Jhn.14:26; see 2 Pt.3:16), as the prophetic voice was stirred up. Peter urged his readers to ground themselves on Scripture: the OT prophets had conveyed, not created, their prophecies (NET: 2 Pt.1:20-1); God was their source, and should be ours. Is he?
His core identity was in Christ. God the son became Christ by pitching his tent, so to speak, with humanity (Jhn.1:14). We could put the Greek there as making his home/residing; some C18-9 versions said tabernacled. Peter used the same word, skēnōma (noun form) In 2 Pt.13-4 it’s put a number of ways, including as tabernacle and bodily tent. Perhaps Peter used it as did John, as encapsulating glory, for Christians have Christ within—glory now, not just the hope of glory. Our mortal body is a tent with glory within.
Then Peter moved on to his death, but termed it as an exodus—so the Greek (2 Pt.1:15). On the Mount of Transfiguration (Mt. Meron?), Sinai witnesses had spoken of Yeshua’s exodus (CJB/NABRE/NLT: Lk.9:31): yes, Moses, representing one exodus, and Elijah, representing the prophetic voice of Canaan’s Israel, spoke of a greater exodus and Israel. Did Peter view death the same way, as a leaving Egypt for Canaan? And as had Jesus, Peter looked forward to crucifixion, by which it would be an honour to glorify God (Jhn.21:18-9). Peter looked back to that mountain experience as personally relevant (2 Pt.1:16). Is it so for us?
God the son noncarnate, became carnate, and incarnate was granted honour and glory from God his father (2 Pt.1:17). The Voice he heard was not the bath qol (daughter of the voice, an echo of former times), but the father’s voice which hadn’t spoken for centuries, witnessing to Jesus being his one-of-a-kind son on earth (Lk.3:22; 9:35): https://archive.org/details/the-fathers-gone-global-exploring-gods-heart-231212/mode/2up p64.
Jesus had confirmed the OT (the Tanak), which arguably had affirmed him as its core message (Jhn.5:39), and he implied scriptures to follow (Jhn.14:26; see 2 Pt.3:16), as the prophetic voice was stirred up. Peter urged his readers to ground themselves on Scripture: the OT prophets had conveyed, not created, their prophecies (NET: 2 Pt.1:20-1); God was their source, and should be ours. Is he?