to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away, reserved in heaven for you,

 (ii) The second stage came to those who knew Christ in the flesh. That is what Peter is thinking about here. That is what he was thinking about when he said to Cornelius, "We are witnesses to all that he did, both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem" ( Acts 10:39). There were those who walked with Jesus and on whose witness our knowledge of his life and the words depends. 