Lord, we worship You from the depths of our being, Although the age is dark, we have Your word as a lamp that shines in a dark place. We are gathered together before Your word.
And we have the prophetic word made more firm, to which you do well to give heed as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;
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Peter likened the word of prophecy in the Scripture to a (lamp) shining in a dark place. This indicates that (1) this age is a dark place in the (dark) (night) (Rom. 13:12), and all the people of this world are moving and acting in darkness; and (2) the prophetic word of the Scripture, as the shining (lamp) to the believers, conveys spiritual (light) that shines in their darkness (not merely knowledge in letters for their mental apprehension), guiding them to enter into a (bright) (day), even to pass through the dark night until the day of the Lord's (appearing) dawns. Before the Lord as the sunlight appears, we need this word as (light) to shine over our footsteps. (See 2 Pet. 2:19 note 2)
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