2Pet 1:15-19 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. 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. For he received from God the Father honour 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. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. We have also 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:
2Cor 4:3-4 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.Satan so much blinds people from seeing the truth that even the looking into Judaism and the Old testament Word of God will not stop Satan from blinding a person to the truth.
2Cor 3:14-16 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [vail] is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.But if you look to Jesus, Satan is out of bounds.
2Cor 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit:
and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.
Acts 8:27-31 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither to [him], and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.The man was blinded, but where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.
If you are not living for God it is for one of two reasons:
Acts 8:32-35 The place of the
scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter;
and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: In
his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his
generation? for his life is taken from the earth. And the eunuch answered
Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself,
or of some other man? Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same
scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
Acts 8:36 And as they went on [their] way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, [here is] water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?So many refuse to be baptized.
2Cor 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.Peter said that when the veil is removed, and your heart is exposed to the Light, you need to take heed UNTIL SOMETHING HAPPENS.
2Pet 1:19 We have also 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...Until...
Your heart is a dark place if you are not a Christian.
"until.... the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: "If you take heed long enough, suddenly a DAY DAWNS inside your heart.
Reve 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel
to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the
offspring of David, [and] the bright and morning star.
Acts 10:44-46 While Peter yet spake
these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And
they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came
with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of
the Holy Ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God.
...
Exod 12:2 This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of the year to you.Where there is a beginning there is an ending.
Exod 12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation
of Israel, saying, In the tenth [day] of this month they shall take to
them every man a lamb, according to the house of [their] fathers, a lamb
for an house:
Exod 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.In the FOURTEENTH day they killed the lamb.
This was FOUR DAYS that they had the Lamb.
2Pet 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.Four days they kept the lamb and then killed it represents how that since Adam until Jesus Christ died, four thousand years passed.
Reve 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was,
and which is to come, the Almighty.
Exod 12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until....They were to eat the lamb just as we are to take heed to the Word of God UNTIL something happened.
"Until... the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. "UNTIL THE MORNING:
Compare:
Exod 12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.The morning will come if you eat all of the lamb.2 Peter 1:19... 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:
Roma 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?And something POWERFUL occurs in your life when you are baptized into Christ.
Ephe 5:25-27 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.I always used to think that this verse meant that God's Word is applied to dirty christians who are living for God but need to come to a place where they are spotless so they can be presented to Jesus as a glorious church without spot or wrinkle.
Roma 6:3-4 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.Once you get this faith that Jesus is the answer, LIGHT SHINES UNTIL A DAY DAWNS IN YOUR HEART.Roma 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1Cor 6:10-11 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Titu 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Reve 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, [and] the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Ephe 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Then you get BAPTIZED and become SPOTLESS.
Colo 1:21-22 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:And you remain spotless and remain cleansed...
Colo 1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [be] not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, [and] which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;We must REMAIN IN THIS PLACE OF FAITH in Christ.
Colo 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.Stay depending upon God's work on the cross in order for you to stay holy.
2Pet 1:9 But he that lacketh these things
is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was
purged from his old sins.
Do not get BLINDED AGAIN after you are saved.
Get the day star to arise INSIDE YOUR HEART.
Sinner, look to Him for the first time UNTIL the day dawns in you!