Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one is about a second meter.

Not too long ago we looked at Second Timothy, which was the end of the road for Paul.

Now we're in second Peter, and this represents the end of the road for Peter.

This is another letter that's written by Peter to the same audience who is writing to

and first Peter is a general, mostly Gentile Christian audience in Asia Minor in Turkey.

Again, it's in very pro-Roman territory.

These are people who have felt under duress and just like everywhere else.

False teachers who see an opportunity to exploit this upstart new idea and to glom onto

it and get money and ladies out of the deal for themselves, they've showed up from all

different stripes and started to insert false teachings.

And now apparently they're even mischaracterizing the teachings of Paul to try to throw these

people into confusion to separate them from their money and to gain prideful popularity

and a following of their own, all ostensibly in the name of Jesus, but in reality it's all

about these false teachers.

Well, just like at the end of second tim at the Paul knew, he'd been arrested a lot of times.

He could tell the difference in different flavors of rest.

He knew, oh, this is the big one.

I'm not going to survive this.

And the tone of the letter reflects it.

Likewise, Peter had also taken a beating.

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