Chapter 1:1-11
Peter was likely writing from a prison in this city.
What is Rome?
Peter is writing to do this, so that we do not forget the truth of God and His word (hint, he mentions it in 1:12).
What is remind?
This is the number of people who were spared during The Flood.
What is 8?
Peter discussed this type of person who was motivated by popularity, pride, greed, personal gain and celebrity and would twist the truth of scripture.
What is a false teacher?
With the Lord, a day is like this many years and this many years are like a day.
What is a thousand?
God's divine power has given us everything we need to live godly lives through this.
What is knowledge of Him?
In chapter 1, Peter refers to this event that he was an eyewitness to on a mountain top with James and John.
What is the transfiguration?
This man was rescued from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Who is Lot?
Peter references a proverb about this animal who returns to its vomit.
What is a dog?
Peter affirms that this apostle's letters are scripture.
Who is Paul?
Grace to you was a common greeting for this group of people.
Who are Greeks?
Melissa used this event as an example for when God used a human agent to create something that was perfect (much like how God used the prophets to write His inerrant word). Hint: The agent was a woman.
What is the virgin birth?
This moral attribute of God describes how He always does the right thing. It assures us that His actions are in agreement with His holy nature.
What is righteous/just?
This is the term for when a person falls away from the faith he or she used to claim.
What is apostatize?
While God used water for destruction of the ungodly in the past, Peter writes that God will use this for future judgment.
What is fire?
We are to make every effort to add to our faith goodness; and to goodness knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, THIS final virtue.
What is love?
Jesus predicted this about Peter's death.
What is that he would be crucified? John 21:18-19
When looking at that tactics of false teachers, we studied the original false teacher, (the) Satan. In 2 Cor, Paul tells us that Satan masquerades as an angel of this.
What is light?
A donkey spoke to this false prophet.
Who is Balaam?
Peter asserts that God wants everyone to come to this before Christ's return.
What is repentance?
God gives us great and precious promises so that we may receive this.
What is eternal life?
Paul, like Peter, wanted us to know that scripture is God-breathed and says so in this letter.
What is 2 Timothy?
This is a tool used by carpenters as a vertical reference line. Amos and Isaiah used it as a metaphor for God's standard of righteousness.
What is a plumb line?
Peter presents an analogy of an apostate to this animal; after washing, she returns to her wallowing in the mud.
What is a sow/female pig?
Some early Christians believed this feast would announce Jesus' 2nd coming.
What is the Feast of Trumpets?