“Beloved ones, this is now the second letter I am writing you, in which, as in my first one, I am arousing your clear thinking faculties by way of a reminder,

2 Peter 3:1-4.

37. (a) Why should we have our ‘clear thinking faculties aroused’? (b) To what momentous event did the prophets point?

³⁷ Certainly we today benefit from having our ‘clear thinking faculties aroused’ so that we can make a proper evaluation of what is essential for gaining divine approval. (Compare 2 Peter 1:12-15.)