A fisherman's farewell — remember the truth, beware the scoffers, await the day.
"One day is with the Lord as a ______ years, and a thousand years as one day."
2 Peter is the apostle's deathbed letter — 'shortly I must put off this my tabernacle' — written to keep the truth alive after he was gone.
Peter refers to the transfiguration as an eyewitness: 'we were with him in the holy mount' — one of the few places an author cites his own gospel scene.
In chapter 3, Peter calls Paul's letters 'scripture' — and admits some of them contain 'things hard to be understood.' Even apostles found Romans heavy going.
The famous patience verse — a day as a thousand years — answers scoffers asking 'Where is the promise of his coming?' The delay, Peter says, is mercy.