Welcome to Enjoying the Journey with Evangelist Scott Pauli.

Today we are on a journey through Scripture.

We hope you'll join us as we make 66 stops through each book of the Word of God.

Do you have a good memory? You know, everybody's memory is different. Some people are good with

short term and some are better with long term. All of us have to work at it. You know, memory is a gift

and some people are more gifted than others, but memory is something, it's like a muscle. You have to

exercise it. And in our journey through scripture, we come to a book that is a book of remembrance.

As a matter of fact, the great message of the entire book is just that, putting you in remembrance.

It is the second letter and the final letter of a man by the name of Peter.

We call it the book of second Peter.

It bears close resemblance to the book

of Jude. As a matter of fact, one may have influenced the other because both the subject matter

and even the phraseology are very similar to each other. In comparing scripture with scripture,

I would challenge you to put them side by side and to study Second Peter and the book of Jude alongside one another,

because they both deal with how to live victoriously in the last days.

Now, Peter writes this, not only this book about the last days for us,

but he writes it in the last days of his own life.

Impending death is upon him.

Martyrdom is coming.

Because of that, the tone of 2nd Peter reminds me at least a great deal of 2nd Timothy.

The last letter the Apostle Paul wrote, both of them on the verge of meeting God,

both of them giving warning to believers for the last days,

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