A More Sure Word of Prophecy

  In this unstable, uncertain age, how exciting to know that there is something that is stable and sure.   It is the eternal, unchanging and sure word of God.   ?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: knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.   For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit? (2 Peter 1:19-21).

  There are some interesting phrases in this passage.   For example, it speaks of ?a more sure word?.   We are living in a world and an age in which so many things are unsure, so many uncertainties.   As we come to the Bible, God?s holy word, we find things that are sure.   The ?sure thing? mentioned here is the word of prophecy.   In other words as we look to the word of God we have certainty about what will happen in the future.  

  Next, we notice that this passage says ?take heed?.   It tells us how we should live in a day and time like the present.   I really believe the Bible states how our lives need to be lived in order for us to be ready for Christ?s coming.   It states that prophecy is to be a light that shineth in a dark place.

  No one will question that we are living in a dark time for we see the sin of the world around us.   We see men and women going away from God.   The Bible says there is a light and I believe that light is the Lord Jesus Christ.   As a matter of fact, it mentions a day star will arise in your heart and according to the book of Revelation that day star is none other than Jesus Christ.   This passage states that in order to understand the whole program God has for the world in a prophetic way, no scripture is of any private interpretation.   Rather, as we bring all the word of God into focus, we see God?s unfolding of the place for the day and the age in which we are living.   Holy men of God wrote these things (words) as they were moved by the Holy Spirit of God.   These prophecies were written 3000 to 4000 years ago by men of God, and today we are able to see that  more sure word becoming even more sure.   What a miracle it was to see Israel reborn in 1948.   Remember the nation of Israel was trodden down in 70 AD by the Romans.   In 1948 it came to life again, exactly as God?s word in Ezekiel chapter 37, said it would.

Bro. Moses Dhlakama (Rimbi, Zimbabwe)