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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

2 Peter 3:12 → Isaiah 60:22

Allusion

Later text

2 Peter 3:12BSB

as you anticipate and hasten the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will be destroyed by fire and the elements will melt in the heat.

Earlier text

Isaiah 60:22BSB

The least of you will become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; in its time I will accomplish it quickly.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square7:43

Significance

Peter's exhortation to be "looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God" (prosdokōntas kai speudontas tēn parousian tēs tou theou hēmeras) resonates with Isaiah 60:22, where God declares regarding Zion's restoration: "I am the LORD; in its time I will hasten it" (ba'ittah achishennah). The concept of "hastening" the eschatological day is unusual in the NT and finds its closest OT precedent in this Isaianic text where God promises to accelerate the fulfillment of his purposes. Peter's remarkable suggestion that believers can "hasten" the day of God through holy living and godliness implies that human faithfulness participates in the divine acceleration of eschatological consummation. The Isaianic promise of God hastening Zion's glorification provides the theological foundation for Peter's pastoral encouragement.

Found via: G.K. Beale & D.A. Carson, _Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament_
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment