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The Promise of His Appearing: An Exposition of Second Peter is unavailable, but you can change that!

The second book of Peter has long troubled biblical scholars and interpreters. Not only has its authorship been disputed, but also its claims about the imminent return of Christ. In this study, Peter Leithart offers a preterist reading of the epistle, arguing that it describes first-century events and not the end of the world. At the same time, he maintains orthodoxy, avoiding hyper-preterism and...

Now your older sister is Samaria, who lives north of you with her daughters, and your younger sister, who lives south of you, is Sodom with her daughters. (Ezek. 16:46; cf. vv. 48–49, 55–56) In a few prophesies, a Gentile city is compared to Sodom (Babylon in Is. 13:19 and Jer. 50:40; Edom in Jer. 49:18), but predominantly the prophets use Sodom as a type of apostate Jerusalem. Picking up on this connection, Jesus and the apostles describe Jerusalem as if it were a composite of all the wicked cities
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