1 My friends, this is the second letter I have written to you. I wrote both letters to you to help your honest minds remember something. 2 I want you to remember the words that the Set-Apart Prophets spoke in the past. And remember the command that our Master and Deliverer gave us. He gave us that command through your followers.
3 It is important for you to understand what will happen in the last days. People will mock and laugh at you. They will live following the evil lusts they want to do. 4 They will say, “YAHUSHA promised to come again. So where is He? Our fathers have died, but the world continues the way it has been since it was made.”
5 But these people don’t remember what happened long ago, for it’s hidden from them. For the skies were there, and YAHUAH made the earth out of water and in the water. All this happened by YAHUAH’S word. 6 Then the world was flooded and destroyed with water. 7 And that same word of YAHUAH is treasuring up and keeping the skies and the earth that we have now. For they are being kept for fire and for the day of judgment and the destruction of all people who are against YAHUSHA.
8 But don’t forget this one thing, dear friends: To the Master a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day. 9 The Master is not being slow in doing what He promised (the way some people understand slowness). But YAHUSHA is being patient with you. He doesn’t want anyone to be lost. He wants everyone to repent, change their ways and stop sinning.
10 But the day when YAHUSHA comes again will surprise everyone like the coming of a thief in the night. The sky will disappear with a loud noise, and all the elements will melt with intense heat. The earth and everything in it will disappear. 11 Everything will be destroyed in this way. So what kind of people should you be? Your lives should be Set-Apart and devoted to YAHUSHA. 12 You should be looking forward to the day of YAHUSHA, wanting more than anything else for it to come soon. For when it comes, the sky will be destroyed with fire, and even the elements will frackle from His intense, radioactive perfection (NO FLESH CAN STAND OR SURVIVE IN HIS PRESENCE). 13 But YAHUSHA made a promise to us, and we are waiting for what He promised - a new heaven and a new earth - a place where purity and goodness lives.
14 Dear friends, we are waiting for this to happen. So try as hard as you can to be without sin and without fault. Try to be at peace with YAHUSHA. 15 Remember that we are delivered because our Master is patient. Our dear brother Paul told you that same thing when he wrote to you with the wisdom that YAHUSHA gave him. 16 That’s what he says in all his letters when he writes about these things. There are parts of his letters that are hard to understand, and some people give a wrong meaning to them. These people are ignorant and weak in belief. They also give wrong meanings to the other Scriptures as well. But they are destroying themselves by doing that.
17 Dear friends, you already know about this. So be careful. Don’t let these evil people lead you away by their delusions. Be careful that you do not fall from your strong belief. 18 But grow in the favour and knowledge of our Master and Deliverer YAHUSHA Messiah. All esteem be to Him, now and forever. Amein!
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