![]() “We also have a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts.” 2 Peter 1:19. ![]() Feelings can deceive us, but God’s Word never will. Look at what Peter said in the next verse: “We have also a more sure word of prophecy.” Is God’s Word above miracles? Is it above dazzling sights? It is! Peter said, “We saw the transfiguration, that miraculous sight, but we have a more sure word.” This was the most dazzling sight that human eyes had ever beheld. Moses represented the dead who will be raised. Elijah was there, representing those who will be alive when Jesus comes. ![]() The transfiguration was a type of the second coming. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.” Peter here recalls the transfiguration, where they were eyewitnesses of Jesus’ majesty. For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. What does God’s Word say about that? Peter says something very interesting in 2 Peter 1:16–18: “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty. He gives this emotional, “feel good” experience. When you do not have the peace of Christ, the devil gives you something in place of it. ![]() The underlying issue, with both of his great deceptions, is getting people to trust in feelings. Satan’s second method is a false Holy Spirit movement, a false Pentecostal experience based on feeling. To many minds, if something “miraculous” takes place, they believe it is a sign of God. Today, more than ever, people are putting their faith in miracles. What will his first deception be? Miracles. From these verses we see that the devil will instigate the enforcement of the mark of the beast. “And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.” Revelation 13:13, 14. In Revelation 13, we read about the image to the beast. We will never fully understand the mysteries of God, but unless we are rooted and grounded in His love, we will not understand the dimensions of God’s love, or have Christ dwelling in our hearts by faith. Paul says in Ephesians 3:16–19, “That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” What experience must we have? We must be strengthened by His Spirit, so that we can be rooted and grounded in love. Our only safety is to be rooted and grounded in the love and strength of Christ. ![]()
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