2 Peter 2 - Introduction

QUESTIONS OVER CHAPTER TWO

1.

What does the author discuss in the last part of Chapter 1?

2.

How does this chapter begin, in contrast?

3.

What kind of heresies would the false teacher bring in?

4.

What (or whom) would they deny?

5.

And therefore they would bring themselves ____________________ __________________________ (?)

6.

What does destruction mean, when referring to a living soul?

7.

The apostle said those who would follow their lascivious doings would be (a) few (b) multitudes (c) thousands (d) many (e) some.

8.

Because of this, what shall happen to the way of truth?

9.

What are lascivious doings?

10.

What motivates these evil men? (2 Peter 2:3.)

11.

What are feigned words?

12.

In what way are people here spoken of as merchandise?

13.

The false teacher's __________________ now from old lingereth not, and their __________________ slumbereth not.

14.

T. or F. God did not spare angels when they sinned.

15.

Why is the case of the angels cited?

16.

Specifically, they were cast into: (a) hell (b) sheol (c) hades (d) the great gulf (e) abandon (f) Tartarus.

17.

Give several descriptive characteristics of this place.

18.

Are souls committed there before or after the judgment day?

19.

Why do you suppose Peter spent time showing how God spared not the ancient world?

20.

What persons did he preserve from that world?

21.

Noah was a preacher of ____________________ (?)

22.

Into what material were the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah converted?

23.

What happened to these two cities should serve as a reminder to all, but particularly those that should live _________________________________________ (?)

24.

Would you call Lot righteous or unrighteous? (Explain answer.)

25.

What did he do to himself because of the sin about him?

26.

What does the Lord know how to do? (Two things, 2 Peter 2:9,)

27.

Where is the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment?

28.

How does one walk after the flesh?

29.

What does one do who despises dominion?

30.

At whom do these wicked men rail?

31.

How do angels treat them, in contrast?

32.

Note 2 Peter 2:12. What picture is drawn here?

33.

What do they receive as their hire of wrong-doing?

34.

When do they revel?

35.

At what occasions would they particularly come in contact with the Christians?

36.

What were their eyes full of?

37.

What particular people were they enticing?

38.

Explain the phrase, children of cursing.

39.

What man's ways did they follow (imitate)?

40.

What did he love?

41.

Who rebuked him (as recorded here)?

42.

Was the madness of the prophet stayed permanently by this rebuke?

43.

What kind of springs are these false teachers?

44.

What kind of mists (clouds)?

45.

Their vain words may be described as: (a) small (b) medium (c) large (d) very large.

46.

How do they entice in the lusts of the flesh?

47.

What particular class of Christians is especially in danger? (2 Peter 2:18, cp. 2 Peter 2:14.)

48.

What are these Christians promised?

49.

Why is the promiser unqualified to make such a promise?

50.

What do they really mean by liberty?

51.

According to the apostle, how may the last state of one become worse than the first?

52.

Do the words knowledge and know have any particular bearing on the interpretation of 2 Peter 2:20-22?

53.

Are both of the proverbs (2 Peter 2:22) found in the Bible?

54.

What, exactly, does vomit and mire represent here?

55.

Do 2 Peter 2:20-22 apply to one who was a true Christian and who became a backslider? (Give reason(s) for your answer.)