<p class="bodytext">Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice,<n id="1" /> that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.

yet was rebuked<n id="1" /> for his own transgression (a dumb donkey,<n id="2" /> speaking with a human voice,<n id="3" /> restrained the prophet&#8217;s madness).<n id="4" />p>

They are illustrations of this true proverb:<n id="1" /> &#8220;<b><i>A dog returns to its own vomiti>b>,&#8221;<n id="2" /> and &#8220;A sow, after washing herself,<n id="3" /> wallows in the mire.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

But, according to his promise, we are waiting for<n id="1" /> new heavens and a new earth, in which<n id="2" /> righteousness truly resides.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">From Simeon<n id="1" /> Peter,<n id="2" /> a slave<n id="3" /> and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God<n id="4" /> and Savior,<n id="5" /> Jesus Christ, have been granted<n id="6" /> a faith just as precious<n id="7" /> as ours.

and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others,<n id="1" /> when God<n id="2" /> brought a flood on an ungodly world,<n id="3" />

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; when it comes,<n id="1" /> the heavens will disappear<n id="2" /> with a horrific noise,<n id="3" /> and the celestial bodies<n id="4" /> will melt away<n id="5" /> in a blaze,<n id="6" /> and the earth and every deed done on it<n id="7" /> will be laid bare.<n id="8" />

yet even<n id="1" /> angels, who are much more powerful,<n id="2" /> do not bring a slanderous<n id="3" /> judgment against them before the Lord.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">These men<n id="1" /> are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness<n id="2" /> have been reserved.

and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless<n id="1" /> men,<n id="2" />

Although these false teachers promise<n id="1" /> such people<n id="2" /> freedom, they themselves are enslaved to<n id="3" /> immorality.<n id="4" /> For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.<n id="5" />

Indeed, I will also make every effort that, after my departure, you have a testimony of these things.<n id="1" />p>

Moreover,<n id="1" /> we<n id="2" /> possess the prophetic word as an altogether reliable thing.<n id="3" /> You do well if you pay attention<n id="4" /> to this<n id="5" /> as you would<n id="6" /> to a light shining in a murky place, until the day dawns and the morning star<n id="7" /> rises in your hearts.<n id="8" />

suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways.<n id="1" /> By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight,<n id="2" /> they are stains and blemishes, indulging<n id="3" /> in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.

Indeed, as long as I am in this tabernacle,<n id="1" /> I consider it right to stir you up by way of a reminder,

while waiting for and hastening<n id="1" /> the coming of the day of God?<n id="2" /> Because of this day,<n id="3" /> the heavens will be burned up and<n id="4" /> dissolve, and the celestial bodies<n id="5" /> will melt away in a blaze!<n id="6" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you.<n id="1" /> These false teachers<n id="2" /> will<n id="3" /> infiltrate your midst<n id="4" /> with destructive heresies,<n id="5" /> even to the point of<n id="6" /> denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bring<n id="7" /> swift destruction on themselves.

Above all, you do well if you recognize<n id="1" /> this:<n id="2" /> No prophecy of scripture ever comes about by the prophet&#8217;s own imagination,<n id="3" />

Their eyes,<n id="1" /> full of adultery,<n id="2" /> never stop sinning;<n id="3" /> they entice<n id="4" /> unstable people.<n id="5" /> They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!<n id="6" />

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their<n id="1" /> condemnation pronounced long ago<n id="2" /> is not sitting idly by;<n id="3" /> their<n id="4" /> destruction is not asleep.p>