#362: Last Days | Corruptible Things Dissolved

With the rapid deterioration of world conditions, Voices from the Dust will feature, each Sunday, a prophetic voice concerning the last days. As you read, count the ways the last days' prophecies are now manifesting in daily news and in the exposés of things once hidden!

[Most weekly posts will be taken from Lutes edition of Joseph Smith Translation* showing deletions (strikethroughs) and corrections (bold)].

JST New Testament | 2 Peter 3:2-16

1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance;
2 That ye 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 Saviour:
3 Knowing this first, that in the last days there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.
4 Denying the Lord Jesus Christ, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things must continue as they were are, and have continued as they are from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old that of old the heavens, and the earth standing out of in the water and in out of the water, were created by the word of God;
6 Whereby And by the word of God, the world that then was, being overflowed with water perished;
7 But the heavens, and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store by the same word, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But concerning the coming of the Lord, beloved, be I would not have you ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise and coming, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to toward us-ward 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 the which the heavens shall shake, and the earth also shall tremble, and the mountains shall melt, and pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be filled melt with fervent heat; the earth also shall be filled, and the corruptible works that which are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing If then that all these things shall be dissolved destroyed, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation conduct and godliness,
12 Looking for unto, and hasting preparing unto for the coming of the day of the coming of God the Lord wherein the corruptible things of the heavens being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements mountains shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless, if we shall endure, we shall be kept according to his promise. And we look for new heavens, and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation, even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written unto you, the longsuffering and waiting of our Lord, for salvation.
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that who are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

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*Lutes, Kenneth and Lyndell. Joseph Smith Translation (pp. 2704-2705 | New Testament | 2 Peter 3:2-16). Lutes Publishing. Kindle Edition.

[Simon] Peter[5] (died between AD 64 and 68 on the Vatican Hill), [1]also known as Peter the Apostle, Peter the Rock, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon... or Cephas,[6] was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, and one of the first leaders of the early Church. ... / According to Christian tradition, Peter was crucified in Rome under Emperor Nero. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter