BLESSINGS FROM KNOWING PETER'S REVELATIONS

My Dear Precious Child, In Peter's first letter to the Gentile believers in Asia Minor, he intended for the Jewish believers in Christ Jesus to read his letter also, as well as the Gentile former pagans. In Peter's salutations at the beginning of the letter he wrote that he was consecrated by the Holy Spirit to a life of obedience to Jesus Christ and the purification with His blood and he spoke that My favor and peace would be upon the believers in the many cities to whom the letter was addressed. In Peter's introduction of the letter he wrote a poem of praise relating to the new birth, which was mirrored in Paul's letters. (Ephesians 1:17-19. In the hymn of praise Peter wrote genuine praise to Me, the Holy Father, and to the Lord Jesus Christ who by His great mercy gave new life to believers. He identified the new birth as being 1. a new birth of hope which draws Life from the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. He also described the new birth as being 2. a birth into an imperishable inheritance which is incapable of being corrupted because it's kept in My heaven for you and intended for those people who are guarded around them with My power through faith. 3. He also described the new birth as being a salvation which stands ready to be revealed in the day of My new covenant with people when it began on the dayof Pentecost where Peter was in attendance and then wrote about it. (I Peter 1:1-5) Peter had previously experienced the new birth after Christ rose from the dead and appeared before the disciples when he and the other disciples were hiding in a room of a house. The Risen Christ, having been raised from the dead, appeared to them and breathed My New Life into them, causing them to experience the new birth when He breathed on them and told them to receive the Holy Spirit and whose sins they forgave would be forgiven and whose sins they retained would be retained. (John 20:19-23; I Peter 1:1-2) In Peter's first letter to the Gentile and Jewish believers he told them to rejoice in the new birth but he also warned them that for a time they might need to suffer many trials, but he told them that the trials would benefit them if they allowed the trials to add to their faith which he described as being more precious than the splendor of fire-tried gold and its genuineness that leads to praise, glory and honor when Christ Jesus appears to them in revelation. He wrote to the believers that, even though they had never seen Christ in the flesh or in His resurrected body like the disciples had seen Him, without seeing Him they still believed in Him and they rejoiced with inexpressible joy which had been touched with My glory because they were achieving the goal of having faith, a faith which was their salvation; and to you it is your salvation. He wrote that My salvation is the salvation which the prophets had carefully searched out and examined in writings about it through the prophesies. Those prophets spoke about My Divine favor that was prophesied that would belong to My children. The prophets investigated in the scriptures spoken by the prophets the times and circumstances which My Spirit of Christ was pointing toward because Christ had predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories of Christ which were to follow His sufferings. The prophets of old knew what they were providing for you when they prophesied My expectations for the future, not for themselves, but instead for a future generation, the one which had been proclaimed to them by the people who preached the Gospel to that generation by the power of My Holy Spirit who was sent from My heaven. Peter wrote that that wonderful mystery was a mystery that angels longed to research but could not because it was hidden in My mind for generations. (I Peter 1:6-12) In the first letter from Peter to Gentile and Jewish believers he told the people to, first of all, gird up the loins of their understanding; second of all, to live sensibly; and third, to set their hope on the gift of revelation knowledge which was to be conferred upon them when Christ appeared to them, whether in the death of their body or in a revealed appearance. And, fourth, Peter admonished the believers that they, as obedient children, should no longer yield to the fleshly passions and desires that once shaped their ignorant character. Instead, Peter appealed to the believers to become holy in the spirit inside of themselves in every way, attaining to the likeness of Christ Jesus who called them; remembering that scripture reported that "I say for you to be holy because I am holy." (Leviticus 19:2; I Peter 1:13-16) Peter had walked and talked with Christ Jesus, had left his family and lands to follow Him in His earthly ministry, had heard Jesus in His teaching about My kingdom which was to come into the earth, plus Peter had observed Jesus heal the sick and teach about My kingdom which was soon to come into the world, as well as Peter observed Jesus on the cross. Peter had even denied knowing Christ Jesus after the crucifixion, yet he was obedient to go to the upper room and wait for My promise of being baptized in the Holy Spirit to occur. It was Peter who preached a sermon relating to what had happened on the day of Pentecost to a crowd of people and over 3,000 people were converted to the gospel of Christ Jesus. people from all over the world. Peter was a participant in My Kingdom of God first coming into the earth on the day of Pentecost in the upper room. Peter was the first disciple to yield to My power of the Holy Spirit. And I began to allow My Holy Spirit to use Peter's body to continue the ministry of Christ in the world. Peter knew the Christ of whom he wrote in his letter. He was one of the last ones left when many of the other disciples fled in fear before the resurrection. When Jesus Christ asked Peter if the disciples were going to abandon Him, too, Peter wisely professed this: "Lord, where else would we go? You have the words of eternal life." (John 6:66-69) When Peter wrote the first letter, he had a long, enduring, grateful, loyal relationship with Christ Jesus, both in ministry and in Peter graciously yielding to the ministry of the Holy Spirit through him. My children must mirror the image of Christ with the dedication and loyalty of Peter. Your Father of Spiritual Empowerment