01.14. New Testament -- 1 Peter - Revelation
New Testament -- 1 Peter - Revelation by H A Ironside
1 Peter The Pilgrim Path.
The journey and its end—suffering and glory.
“The pilgrim’s progress from this world to that which is to come.”
Note the place that “suffering” has in this Epistle.
1 Peter 1:1-25 The path through the wilderness.
1 Peter 1:3 Living hope.
1 Peter 1:4 Contrast with Jeremiah 2:7.
1 Peter 1:8 Christ apprehended by faith which worketh by love.
1 Peter 1:10-12 Prophetic testimony.
1 Peter 1:11 The inspiring Spirit—See 2 Peter 1:20.
Sufferings of Christ—See 1 Peter 2:19.
1 Peter 1:13-16 Exhortation to steadfastness.
1 Peter 1:17-21 Holiness based on redemption.
1 Peter 1:18 [last part] empty behavior, ancestrally handed down.
1 Peter 1:20 foreordained—foreknown.
1 Peter 1:22 Love based on regeneration.
1 Peter 2:1-25; 1 Peter 3:1-22; 1 Peter 4:1-19 The Separated life.
1 Peter 2:2 “unto salvation”—J.N.D. and R.V.
1 Peter 2:4-10 The spiritual house and the new priesthood.
1 Peter 2:4 Living stone—Matthew 16:18.
1 Peter 2:5 Living stones.
1 Peter 2:11-17 Exhortation. Responsibility to walk in holiness through the world.
1 Peter 2:18-25, 1 Peter 3:1-7 Sanctified relationships.
1 Peter 2:19 Suffering wrongfully—See 1 Peter 2:20.
1 Peter 2:23 Suffering of Christ—See 1 Peter 3:14.
1 Peter 3:1 without the word—i.e., without nagging.
1 Peter 3:12 Note how the quotation stops in the midst of a sentence—the Day of Judgment not yet come.
1 Peter 3:14 Suffering for righteousness’ sake.
1 Peter 3:17-18 Suffering for well-doing—Christ suffered for sins.
1 Peter 4:1 Sufferings of Christ—suffered in the flesh.
1 Peter 4:12 Suffering for Christ’s sake.
1 Peter 4:13 Partakers of Christ’s sufferings.
1 Peter 4:15 Not to suffer as evildoers.
1 Peter 4:16 Suffering as a Christian.
1 Peter 4:19 Suffering according to the will of God.
1 Peter 5:1-14 Service and reward.
1 Peter 5:1 Sufferings of Christ—See 1 Peter 5:10.
1 Peter 5:2 Acts 20:28—Shepherding the flock.
1 Peter 5:9 Whom—not which!
1 Peter 5:10 Suffer “a while.”
2 Peter Steadfastness in view of apostasy.
2 Peter 1:1-21 Spiritual growth.
2 Peter 1:9 hath forgotten—“Forgetful Green.” Bunyan.
2 Peter 1:13 “Stir up”—connect with 2 Corinthians 5:1-21. See 2 Peter 3:1.
2 Peter 1:19 a more sure word of prophecy—the word of prophecy confirmed.
2 Peter 1:20 any private interpretation—of its own interpretation.
2 Peter 2:1-22 Apostate teachers.
2 Peter 2:1 Aspects of perdition.
2 Peter 2:15 Compare with the Epistle of Jude.
2 Peter 3:1-18 The Lord’s Return.
2 Peter 3:10 The Day of the Lord.
2 Peter 3:12 The Day of God.
2 Peter 3:13 See Isaiah 65:1-25 and Isaiah 66:1-24.
2 Peter 3:15 Is not Paul’s authorship of Hebrews here intimated?
2 Peter 3:16 hard to be understood—as in Hebrews 6:1-20 and Hebrews 10:1-29.
1 John The Epistle of Fellowship. Light and Love.
In John’s Gospel: Eternal Life Manifested in the Son of God.
In first Epistle: Eternal Life Manifested in the Children of God.
1 John 1:1 i.e., The beginning of Christianity. Not “in the beginning” as in Genesis 1:1 and John 1:1.
1 John 1:2 “The manifested Life.”
1 John 1:7 Note: It is where we walk—not how. All real Christians walk in the Light.
1 John 2:3-11 Obedience the evidence of life.
1 John 2:4 He who knows God seeks to obey Him.
1 John 2:7-8 See John 12:49—The testimony given by the Father to the Son. The same Life in Him and in us.
1 John 2:12-28 The family of God.
1 John 2:29, 1 John 3:1-15 The two families.
1 John 3:1 The Father’s love for His children.
the sons of God—and such we are. R.V.
1 John 3:3 See 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13.
1 John 3:9 commit—practice.
1 John 3:16-24 Love, the manifestation of the new nature.
1 John 3:17 Active benevolence, a condition of answered prayer. See Proverbs 21:13.
1 John 3:20-21 The heart may condemn—then real prayer is impossible. See Psalms 66:18.
1 John 4:1-6 The spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
1 John 4:7-21 Perfect love—its manifestation and results.
1 John 4:12 John 1:18—God manifest in us.
1 John 4:15 The indwelling God.
1 John 4:17 Perfect love.
Day of Judgment—See John 5:24.
1 John 5:1-13 Assurance through divine testimony.
1 John 5:1-5 Overcomers.
Summary—Love and Obedience overcoming proofs of divine life.
1 John 5:6-13 The witness—water for purification, blood for expiation. Others—like the prophets—came by water— proclaiming the Word for cleansing—but He only came by both water and blood. See Ezekiel 36:25.
1 John 5:14-21 Epilogue.
1 John 5:14-15 Confidence. The prayer that God answers.
1 John 5:16-17 Sin unto death—Jeremiah 11:14; Isaiah 22:14.
1 John 5:18-21 Divine certainties.
2 John An appendix to 1 John.
Truth to be maintained at all costs.
Only Epistle to a lady.
2 John 1:1 the elect lady—Lady Electra.
2 John 1:3 The Son of the Father—the supreme test.
2 John 1:4-6 Love not inconsistent with loyalty to the truth.
2 John 1:8 Hebrews 11:26—Reward for service—Revelation 22:12.
2 John 1:10-11 Responsibility to test false teachers and refuse them.
3 John 3 John 1:1 Love ever to be manifested.
3 John 1:8 Fellowship in the truth.
3 John 1:9-11 Warning against ecclesiastical pretension.
Jude The Increasing Apostasy.
Jude 1:1 See Luke 6:16 as to the relationship of Jude and James, son of Alpheus.
Jude 1:3 The faith once for all delivered.
Jude 1:4 All creeping things were unclean—See Leviticus 11:41.
unawares—clandestine work.
Jude 1:5-7 Destruction of apostates.
Jude 1:8-10 Despisers of the truth.
Jude 1:11 Threefold apostasy.
Jude 1:12-13 Divine indictment of evil workers.
Jude 1:14-15 Enoch’s prophecy.
Jude 1:16-19 Unholy separatists—Proverbs 18:1.
Jude 1:20-23 Faith’s resources.
Jude 1:20 Studious, prayerful.
Jude 1:21 Trustful, hopeful.
Jude 1:22-23 Compassionate.
Jude 1:24 Compare with Ephesians 3:20.
able—see Hebrews 2:18. The Revelation The Book of the Throne.
Throne —27 times.
Book of the Lamb. Lamb—24 times.
Revelation 1:8 See Isaiah 48:12.
Revelation 1:16 See Isaiah 49:2.
Revelation 2:1 John 20:26—Jesus in the midst—See Revelation 5:6.
Revelation 2:2, Revelation 2:9, Revelation 2:19; Revelation 3:1, Revelation 3:8, Revelation 3:15 I know thy works—the Lord’s estimate.
Revelation 2:4 The greatest heresy of all is the want of love.
Revelation 2:7, Revelation 2:11 Promise to the overcomer—tree of life—Genesis 3:22.
Revelation 2:17 Promise—manna—Exodus 16:1-36.
White stone—division of the tribes.
Revelation 2:20 Jezebel—A heathen princess linked to the people of God—the virtual ruler of Israel; Leader in apostasy and seducer of the people. The papal system—1 Kings 16:31.
Revelation 2:26 Promise—conquest of Canaan.
Revelation 2:28 Star out of Judah—Balaam’s prophecy.
Revelation 3:5 [first part] Promise—priestly garments.
[last part] See Moses’ intercession. Contrast Psalms 69:28.
Revelation 3:7 The key to the treasury—See Isaiah 22:22.
Revelation 3:9 The conflict with legality. Judaizers in the professed church.
Revelation 3:12 Promise—the Temple of Solomon.
Revelation 3:14 Laodicea—A Phrygian city of great wealth—Trading in costly mantles, unguents—Gold pouring in. The Church there largely patterned after the city—self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-righteous.
Revelation 3:16 Neither enemy nor ardent friend.
Revelation 3:18 Exhortation—The Lord in the guise of a traveling merchant.
Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand—what condescension! what patience!
Behold, I knock—By the Word, By adversity, By bereavement.
Revelation 4:1 First opening—See Revelation 11:19.
Revelation 4:3 See Exodus 39:10
Revelation 4:4 Not king’s crowns—but rewards.
Revelation 4:6 The eyes of the Lord—See Zechariah 4:10.
Revelation 4:11 Man is for God; not God for man—See Colossians 1:18.
Revelation 5:1 The title deeds—See Jeremiah 32:10-11.
Revelation 5:6 Jesus in the midst—See Matthew 18:20.
Revelation 6:2 Bloodless victory—the triumphs of peace.
Revelation 6:4 Internecine and universal warfare.
Revelation 6:5 Famine—food doled out by weight.
Revelation 6:8 Pestilence Added to the Horrors of War and Famine.
Revelation 6:9 Jewish saints slain in the early part of the tribulation.
Revelation 6:12 See Isaiah 2:19
Revelation 6:13 Collapse of civilization. Downfall of orderly government.
Revelation 7:2-4 144,000—the remnant of Israel—sealed before the last half of the 70th week begins.
Revelation 7:9-10 Gentiles who welcome the message of the remnant of Israel in the tribulation days.
Revelation 8:1 The calm before the coming storm of judgment.
Revelation 8:3 The angel-priest.
Revelation 9:2 Strong delusion blotting out the light.
Revelation 9:8 Seductive.
Revelation 9:10 The prophet that speaketh lies.
Revelation 10:7 The mystery of God finished when the seventh trumpet sounds.
Revelation 10:9 Eating the Word of God—Jeremiah 15:16; Ezekiel 2:7
Revelation 10:11 before—in respect of.
Revelation 11:3 The two witnesses. Connect with Zechariah 4:1-14—Royalty and priesthood.
Revelation 11:5 See Jeremiah 5:14.
Revelation 11:6 A testimony like to that of Moses and Elijah.
Revelation 11:8 Jerusalem is called Sodom—See Isaiah 1:10.
Revelation 11:12 The mid-tribulation rapture of the witnesses who are slain under the beast.
Revelation 11:15 The seventh trumpet ushers in the Kingdom and goes on to the judgment of the wicked, i.e., to the Great White Throne, thus completing a prophetic series.
Revelation 11:19 Second opening—See Revelation 15:5.
Revelation 12:1-17 A “Sign” in Heaven—God’s thoughts of Israel. Jeremiah 4:31—See Isaiah 66:7. The woman is not in heaven—but on the earth as Revelation 12:12 proves. Israel the mother of the Messiah—See Isaiah 9:6; Micah 4:10
Revelation 12:2 See full description of this same scene in Micah 4:8-13.
Revelation 12:14 The eagle—Exodus 19:4.
Revelation 13:2 The nondescript beast of Daniel 7:7.
Revelation 13:3 The imperial head wounded to death—but revived by satanic power. The imperial head once wounded to death, shall rise again in the last days—See Habakkuk 3:13.
Revelation 13:11 The lamb-like beast—the false Messiah. See Daniel 11:36-45; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17; 1 John 2:1-29.
Revelation 13:15 life—breath. Contrast Habakkuk 2:19.
Revelation 14:11 See Isaiah 34:10.
Revelation 14:13 Blessed—See Revelation 16:15. “The returns are not all in yet!” W. P. White.
Revelation 14:14 The Son of Man—last use of the term—See Matthew 8:20.
Revelation 14:15 The harvest—discriminative judgment—See Matthew 13:30.
Revelation 14:18 The vintage—Joel 3:13. The unsparing judgment of apostate Israel.
Revelation 15:2 The saints slain in the great tribulation.
Revelation 15:5 Third opening—see Revelation 19:11.
Revelation 16:1 vials—bowls.—Compare the judgments of the bowls with the plagues of Egypt.
Revelation 16:12 The eastern confederation, “The kings of the sunrising.”
Revelation 16:15 Blessed—Seech. Revelation 19:9.
Revelation 17:5 Who are the daughters? See Ezekiel 16:44.
Revelation 18:7 Babylon’s proud boast—See Isaiah 47:7.
Revelation 18:14 “The fruit season of thy soul’s desire has gone from thee.”
Revelation 19:9 Blessed—See Revelation 20:6.
Revelation 19:11 Fourth opening.
Revelation 19:15-16 The winepress—See Isaiah 63:1-10.
Revelation 20:6 Blessed—See Revelation 22:7.
Revelation 20:15 Contrast Ezekiel 42:1-20.
Revelation 22:1 The river of God—See Genesis 2:10; Psalms 36:8
Revelation 22:7 Blessed—see Revelation 22:14.
Revelation 22:10 Contrast with Daniel 12:1-13. See Isaiah 29:10-12.
Revelation 22:12 Reward at the judgment seat of Christ. See 2 John 1:8; Isaiah 40:10
Revelation 22:14 do His commandments—“wash their robes,” correct reading.