and the result of the sifting would be that Peter is found to be chaff. It is akin to what Peter says in his first letter. “Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour” (1 Peter 5:8 ESV). The devil delights in devouring faith and bringing people to end-time destruction, and his goal was to quench Peter’s faith so that Peter ended up in the same state as Judas: damned by God. Jesus responds with one of the most astonishing statements in the Gospels. “But I
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