The Present Truth

Various Times

The Present Truth is different at each Time

• Time in the Garden of Eden
• Time when 10 Commandments was given
• Time after Jesus Resurrection ( CURRENT )

2 Peter 1:1-4
New King James Version (NKJV)

¹ Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ,

To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

² Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,³ as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, ⁴ by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

• knowledge : epignósis –> Feeds your heart and makes you humble
• Other words of Knowledge used in bible : gnósis, ginóskó
• Peace : Shalom in Hebrew , eiréné in Greek
• Grace : checed in Hebrew, Charis in Greek

2 Peter 1:12
New King James Version (NKJV)

¹² For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth.

Time in the Garden of Eden

The Present truth at the Garden of Eden is

• Not to eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

Time when 10 Commandments was Given

The Present truth when 10 commandments was given

• To follow all 10 commandments
  • Even if you miss 1 of those 10 Commandments, you will be cursed

Time after Jesus Resurrection ( CURRENT )

The Present truth after Jesus Resurrection is

• whoever believes in JESUS should not perish but have everlasting life

John 3:16
New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.