2 Peter
The second epistle of Peter.
1. Growth in Godliness
4: God has promised that we will become like him. Many Christians do not hold fast to these promises and ask God to fulfill them.
5-9: To be honest, we are not yet full of all these qualities. We must get them as deeply and quickly as possible so that we can be fruitful and not just unloving, ineffective and useless like most of humanity.
10: We confirm God's calling on us the deeper that we pursue virtue, knowledge, self control, love, etc.
14: Peter knew he was about to die soon, so he wanted to remind everyone to be good.
17: Peter and the apostles heard God declare from heaven that he had chosen Jesus. They were with him when his face was transfigured on the mountain. They saw this with their own eyes.
19-21: The scriptures and prophecies passed down to us were made by men caught up in the spirit of God, and they were fulfilled in Christ.
2. False Teachers Condemned
Because Christians want teaching, many people want to profit by showing up to teach them. But really they are motivated by money and sex and pride, just like anybody else. They pile up false words and deceptions just to get more power for their "ministry." Every Christian tradition is full of people like this, just as every Christian tradition has faithful and humble people that you've never heard of.
4: Once again in scripture, teachers are compared to angels.
10: We are commanded multiple times in scirpture not to blaspheme the glorious ones.
11-19: Compare with Jude.
20: Coming to Christ frees us from being entangled in the world, but some people still long for worldly delights more than fellowship with other Christians. So they launch themselves back out into worldly pleasures and make their lives all the worse.
21: Christians who go off the rails end up destroying themselves far worse than many unbelievers who are just milling around doing their thing.
3. The Day of the Lord
1-7: Is Peter talking about the actual final judgment of creation or is he talking in a apocalyptically visionary fashion about the transformation of the world from one mode to one under the reign of Christ? Eschatology is Christians disagreements about how and when these promises take hold in the course of history.
But, we should all agree not to be scoffers and to study patiently to see how these promises have unfolded, may continue to unfold, or will be fulfilled at the day of judgment.
5: The Flood was perhaps not just a purely material process with water as we understand it today, but a kind of unmaking and remaking of the world.
8-9: God unfolds things in time in a way that is gracious to our souls.
15-16: Peter affirms the teaching of the apostle Paul in his letters, while cautioning that people can take them in weird and confused directions. Twas ever thus.
If you're still uncertain about the times and seasons of Christ's transformation of the world, Peter concludes it this way - focus on growing in grace. To Christ be the glory, from now to the day of eternity.