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Welcome to Isaac Hunter’s Transparent Bible Study. We officially started our first month and first 5+ chapters on January 1, 2026, and this is the halfway point in the month. If you followed along, you have done approximately 15 days of reading both letters each day (I’m sure we will get better with practice), and now we are shifting gears to start our questions and research.
So, let’s take a closer look at these two books in the New Testament and talk about some questions that might have come up during your reading.
Alright, here we go…
– Mid Month Check In –
!! ISAAC HUNTER’s BIBLE STUDY !!
We chose eight chapters to cover this month because it allowed us to cover both books or letters as a whole, which is the best, most effective way to study the Bible: book by book. The study aims to publish 5 chapters each month for the next 20 years, but we will take on a few more if needed.
1 Peter: There are five chapters in First Peter, and they cover a wide range of topics and are quite meaty theologically. We know it was written to Christians who are suffering for their faith, encouraging them to endure with hope, holiness, and humility by remembering who they are in Christ and what future God has promised them. My questions are many.
2 Peter: There are three chapters in 2nd Peter, and they also have a lot of richness to them doctrinally. Oddly, this is the book, specifically chapter 2, that God used to bring me out of Buddhism, the Martial Arts, and put me on a completely different path when I was 17. I still do not understand how the concepts or topics in 2 Peter 2 would speak to a devout Buddhist who was seriously considering the monastery after high school.
One of the questions I started asking when I went through 1 Peter 1:12 was: What exactly do angels desire to look into? What is this particular verse referencing? What does this tell us about angels?
Provide your answers to this study question in the comments below. As a bonus, can you relate your answer to any of my books or characters?
Our 2nd Half of the Month:
In the second half of the month, we now shift gears from primarily reading and question recording to in-depth research. While it is highly recommended that you continue to read the chapters at least once through each day for the remainder of the days (until the 31st), our focus will be on digging into commentaries, dictionaries, online resources, etc to find satisfying answers to our questions. Also, by this point, you should have your chapters highlighted according to the hierarchical highlighting method. Keep up the great work, and I will see you again at the end of the month!
1 & 2 Peter
Together, 1 and 2 Peter serve as a dual-focused manual for the Christian life, addressing external pressures and internal threats. While 1 Peter encourages believers to endure outward suffering and persecution by grounding their identity in a “living hope” and a heavenly inheritance, 2 Peter shifts inward to warn against the corruptive influence of false teachers and spiritual apathy. Collectively, these letters call for a life of holiness and growth in the “true knowledge” of God, reminding the faithful that their conduct should reflect their expectation of the Day of the Lord and the ultimate fulfillment of God’s promises.
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“Okay, mom,” Randy said.
“You behave yourself and be nice. You’re lucky to have company while you wait for the doctors.”
The woman turned and started back the way she came.
“The nurse said it would be twenty or thirty more minutes, so we’ll eat quick and be back up here before they take you in, okay?”
“Okay, mom.”
“Sorry for him,” the woman said to Katie as she walked by.
“He’s funny.”
Katie grinned.
As the woman left, Katie noticed the boy moving around again on the bed. Before she realized what was happening, the tiny lump disappeared and she could hear the faint sound of bare hands and feet on the tile floor.
He was low crawling under the beds toward her.
A moment later, Randy popped his head out from under the nearest hospital bed, craning his neck around to look up at her.
“Hello, there,” Katie said.
Randy disappeared back under the bed, the bed sheet draping down almost to the floor. Katie could still see three little fingers pressed to the tile.
“What are you here for?” Katie asked, readjusting her seat in the chair, trying to get the ache in her chest to lessen.
For whatever reason, the wheelchair was really uncomfortable.
“Why are – “
Randy’s voice trailed off for a moment as he looked around.
“Why are you here?”
“I’m getting my leg fixed,” Katie said. “See?”
Randy poked his head back out from under the bed and looked at the leg she was pointing to.
“What’s wrong with it?”
“The doctor said it’s broken,” Katie said. “Shattered.”
“Ouch.”
“Yeah. Ouch.”
“Can you feel it?” Randy asked, able to stay out from his hiding place.
“I can feel it, but it’s not too bad,” Katie said, then tapped the IV in her arm. “This thing is giving me medicine of some kind for the pain. At least that’s what the nurses said.”
“Why are you – “
Randy stopped mid-sentence.
He scooted out from under the bed entirely and slowly crept over to er on all fours.
“What are you, some kind of spider?” Katie asked, giggling a little.
“What are you?” Randy echoed.
He was now only about a foot away from her chair and sat there, his legs folded up under him, gawking up at her.
“What are you staring at me for?”
“I’ve never – “
Randy put out a hesitant hand and ever so gently touched her arm.
“Are you some kind of ghost?”
He looked around again.
“Are you – ”
He leaned in, talking in a whisper.
“Are you dead?”
A nurse came around the corner and stopped abruptly, spotting the empty bed in the far corner where Randy should have been.
“Randy Andrews,” the nurse said, her hands now on her hips. “You get right back into the bed and you stop playing around, please. They are ready for you in surgery.”
Katie watched as Randy scrambled on all fours under the beds and back up onto his, pulling the sheet back over top of himself again.
She started to ask him about his question, but couldn’t get the words out before his parents appeared at the door.
Katie sat there quietly, watching Randy stare back at her from under his sheet. She glanced over at his parents and the nurse, noticed Randy’s dad had no hair on the top of his head.
Are you dead?
What kind of question was that?
The snap of the wheel locks being disengaged on Randy’s hospital bed jarred Katie out of the confusion she was in.
The doctor she’d first seen was now at the door, waiting for Randy.
He was his surgeon.
They wheeled Randy out of the room, his parents following right behind, disappearing to the left, heading for his operating room.
The pre-op room was empty again.
Dead.
Are you dead?
What kind of crazy question was that?
The nurse came back through the double doors.
“It won’t be long now,” she said.
“Okay.”
Katie tried not to think about the dull ache growing just behind her sternum.
The nurse disappeared around the corner as Katie watched the double doors to the operating rooms slowly shut.
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