Whereby the tevel (תֵּבֵל world) at that time was destroyed by flooded with water.(Genesis 7:1–24; Jude 1:17–23)
Shimon Kefa Bet Chapter 3 Messianic Jewish Perspective
The Authentic Remembrance: Grounded in Torah and Prophets
3:1 ¶ Yedidim, this is now my second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your wholesome thinking by way of a reminder
3:2 by recalling what was foretold by kedushim Nevi'im and commanded by Adoneinu and Moshieinu through your Shluchim.
The Anatomy of the Last Days Scoffers (Litzanim)
3:3 ¶ Knowing this first, that there shall come in the Acharit HaYamim scoffers, walking after their own ta'avah (lust),
3:4 “Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything continues as it has from the beginning of creation.”
3:5 For when they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago, by the Word of Elohim the Shamayim existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water,
3:6
Whereby the tevel (תֵּבֵל world) at that time was destroyed by flooded with water.
3:7 It is by that same Word that the present Shamayim and haEretz, having been preserved, are being kept for fire until the Yom HA DIN, when the anshei resha will be destroyed.
Understanding Hashem's Concept of Time and Patience
3:8 ¶ Yedidim, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day before Adonai is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as one day.
3:9 ¶ Adonai is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is erech apayim (patience Longsuffering) toward you, not willing for any to perish, but for all to come to teshuvah (repentance).
3:10 But ha Yom ADONAI will come as a thief in the night; in the which the Shamayim shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the eretz also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
3:11 ¶ וְעַתָּה אִם־כָּל־אֵלֶּה יָמוּגוּ מַה־מְּאֹד עֲלֵיכֶם לְהִתְהַלֵּךְ בִּקְדֻשָּׁה וּבַחֲסִידוּת׃
ve'atah im-kol-'eleh yamugu mah-me'od aleichem lehit'halech bikdushah uvachasidut.
Since everything is going to be destroyed like this:
What kind of people should you be?
You should walk in kedushah (Set apart) and chasidus (piety) lives.
3:12 וּלְחַכּוֹת לְיוֹם־יְהוָֹה שֶׁיָּבֹא וּלְהָחִישׁ אֹתוֹ אֲשֶׁר בּוֹ הַשָּׁמַיִם יָמוּגוּ בָאֵשׁ וְהַיְסֹדוֹת יְבֹעֲרוּ וְנָמַסּוּ׃
ulechakot leyYom-Adonai sheyavo ulehachish oto asher bo hashamayim yamugu va'esh vehaysodot yevo'aru venamasu.
Awaiting for and hastening the coming Yom-Adonai, because of which the heavens will be set on fire, will be destroyed and the elements burning up .
3:13 וַאֲנַחְנוּ כְּפִי הַבְטָחָתוֹ מְחַכִּים לְשָׁמַיִם חֲדָשִׁים וּלְאֶרֶץ חֲדָשָׁה אֲשֶׁר־צֶדֶק יָלִין בָּם׃
va'anachnu kefi havtachato mechakim leShamayim chadashim ule'eretz chadashah asher-tzedek yalin bam.
But according to His promise, we await for new heavens and a new earth, in which haTzedakah dwells.
3:14 Wherefore, Yedidim, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in shalom, without spot, and blameless.
Defense of Sha'ul (Paulos) (2 Kefa 3:15–16)
3:15
And account [that] the longsuffering of Adoneinu [is]
salvation; even as our beloved brother Sha'ul (Paulos) also according to
the wisdom given to him has written to you;
3:16
As also in all [his] letters, speaking in them of these
things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which
they that are untaught (amathes—those lacking training) and unstable twist (streblousin), as [they do] also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.
3:17 You therefore, Yedidim, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.
3:18 But grow in grace, and [in] the knowledge of Adoneinu and Moshi'a Yeshua (יֵשוּעַ) Mashiach. To him [be] glory both now and for ever. Amein.
