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December 1
Saturday



KRAKATOA

READ:
2 Peter 3:1-13
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The heavens will pass
away with a great
noise, and the elements
will melt with fervent
heat. __ 2 Peter 3:10
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In 1883, the greatest volcanic explosion in modern history took place. Krakatoa, an island volcano along the Indonesian arc, shot 6 cubic miles of soil, rock, vegetation, and animal and human life 24 miles up into the stratosphere. Its shockwave traveled around the world seven times, and its debris fell as far as Madagascar--more than 2,000 miles away!

At the time of Krakatoa's explosion, Captain Sampson of the British vessel Norham Castle was nearby and wrote in his log: "I am writing this blind in pitch darkness. We are under continual rain of pumice-stone and dust. So violent are the explosions that the ear-drums of over half my crew have been shattered....I am convinced that the Day of Judgment has come."

Captain Sampson believed that the world was coming to an end. The explosion does seem to fit 2 Peter 3:10, "The heavens will pass away with a great noise and the elements will melt with fervent heat." As terrible as Krakatoa was, though, it did not signal the end of the world.

Crisis has a way of shaking us out of complacency. It reminds us this world is not our home and encourages us to be godly (v.11). when it feels as if our personal world is coming to an end, we should focus on living for eternity. __ Dennis Fisher
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A PRAYER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~~~Lord, my desire is to live for You whether circumstances~~~~~~
~~~~~~are good or bad. Help me to focus on Your purposes.~~~~~~~
~~~~~~Show me today in Your Word what You want me to do.~~~~~~
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Trusting God can turn a crisis
into a treasure.


**************Today's Bible Reading __ 2 Peter 3:1-13 *************

1 Beloved, I now write to
you... 2 that you may be
mindful of the words which
were spoken before by the
holy prophets, and of the
commandment of us, the
apostles of the Lord and
Savior, 3 knowing this first:
that scoffers will come in
the last days, walking
according to their own lusts,

4 and saying, "Where is the
promise of His coming? For
since the fathers fell asleep,
all things continue as they
were from the beginning of
creation."...

8 But, beloved, do not
forget this one thing, that
with the Lord one day is as
a thousand years, and a
thousand years as one day.

9 The Lord is not slack
concerning His promise...
but is longsuffering toward
us, not willing that any
should perish but that all
should come to repentance.

10 But the day of the Lord
will come as a thief in the
night, in which the heavens
will pass away with a great
noise, and the elements will
melt with fervent heat; both
the earth and the works that
are in it will be burned up.

11 Therefore, since all these
things will be dissolved,
what manner of persons
ought you to be in holy
conduct and godliness,

12 looking for and hastening
the coming of the day of
God, because of which the
heavens will be dissolved,
being on fire, and the
elements will melt with
fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless
we, according to His
promise, look for new
heavens and a new earth in
which righteousness dwells.

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Peter's second letter was, like his first, written to believers who had
been scattered throughout Asia Minor by persecution, though its
specific date is uncertain. Its content contains many parallels to the
book of Jude. __ WEC