Calvary Chapel of San Antonio

And it will be true that the Jews in captivity will call out for the Lord... But were they really calling out to Him?

"Jesus would certainly be thinking of David here. Israel’s greatest king would have

crossed the very same brook when he fled Absalom in Jerusalem. He would be met

by a man named Shimei who would curse him and throw rocks at him. Both kings—

David and Jesus—were kings without thrones suffering through what seemed at

the time to be the worst defeats of their lives."

"Peter, of course, had a specific audience in mind as he wrote this. We cannot be sure what his connection was to the recipients of the letter, but we know they belonged to Jesus. That’s why this letter matters so much to us. We, too, are God’s elect—chosen—and this letter is as much for us/to us as it was to those he is writing. We are God’s elect as well."

After hearing all the wonderful promises God has made about the millennial kingdom (Isaiah’s audience doesn’t understand the prayer is for the end), the remnant of the very last days cries out.