_ Outline of Chapter 2:_ Beware Of False Teachers: 2 Peter 2:1-3 God's Track Record Of Judgment/Deliverance: 2 Peter 2:4-9 Profile Of False Teachers: 2 Peter 2:10-17 Their Dangerous Teaching: 2 Peter 2:18-22 _ Introductory Comments:_ ‘Peter's thought still lingers in the Old Testament propheci... [ Continue Reading ]
_2 Peter 2:1 ‘But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.'_ ‘BUT FALSE PROPHETS ALSO AROSE AMONG THE PEOPLE... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:2 ‘And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be maligned;'_ ‘AND MANY WILL FOLLOW' -(Matthew 7:13). _ Points to Note:_ False doctrine spreads! Not only do they bring destruction upon themselves, but they also bring it upon others. 2. ‘Follow'-‘Fo... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:3 ‘and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.'_ ‘IN THEIR GREED' -Indicating that part of their motivation stems from greed. ‘Flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage' (Judges 1:... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:4 ‘For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;'_ ‘FOR' -Peter argues from Old Testament precedent (approved examples?), and then makes. necessary inference at the end (2 Peter 2:9). This section... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:5 ‘and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah,. preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought. flood upon the world of the ungodly;'_ ‘AND DID NOT SPARE' -The repetition of this phrase (2 Peter 2:4) is an attack upon the false teachers insistence upon ‘grace... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:6 ‘and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly thereafter;'_ ‘SODOM AND GOMORRAH' -These two cities really existed. Once again, the New Testament confirms in detail the histori... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:7 ‘and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men'_ ‘HE RESCUED' -Mercy and condemnation are often found in the same event. The same will be true at the Second Coming (2 Thessalonians 1:7; 1 Thessalonians 4:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:1). Lot had to be po... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:8 ‘(for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day with their lawless deeds),'_ Point to Note: What. verse!. verse, while written 2000 years ago, reads like it was just written to address. need in our own time. L... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:9 ‘then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,'_ ‘THEN' -The lesson or applications from the previous examples. 1. From the angels that sin, we learn: A. No-one is exempt from God's judgment or God's l... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:10 ‘and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties,'_ Deadly Preachers: What was true in all past generations, is also true in Peter's generation. The righteous found t... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:11 ‘whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring. reviling judgment against them before the Lord.'_ Points to Note: By slandering such angelic authorities, the false teachers demonstrate the depth of their irreverence. In stark contrast, angels, who are far above such... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:12 ‘But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,'_ ‘UNREASONING ANIMALS' -‘destitute of reason, brute' (Thayer p. 29), ‘lit,, unreasoning... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:13 ‘suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it. pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you,'_ ‘SUFFERING WRONG AS THE WAGES OF DOING WRONG' -‘suffering themselves, as the penalty for the sufferin... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:14 ‘having eyes full of adultery and that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having. heart trained in greed, accursed children;'_ ‘HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY' -‘They lust after every girl they see; they view every female as. potential adulteress. Peter makes another shrewd... [ Continue Reading ]
_2 Peter 2:15 ‘forsaking the right way they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,'_ ‘FORSAKING THE RIGHT WAY' -‘forsaking'-‘to depart from, leave' (Thayer p. 333). Present tense, they are continually leaving. Always moving fart... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:16 ‘but he received. rebuke for his own transgression; for. dumb donkey, speaking with. voice of. man, restrained the madness of the prophet.'_ ‘BUT HE RECEIVED. REBUKE FOR HIS OWN TRANSGRESSION' -God made it clear that Israel was His people (2 Peter 22:12). But Balaam continued to ask... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:17 ‘These are springs without water, and mists driven by. storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved.'_ ‘SPRINGS WITHOUT WATER' -1. ‘describes the unsatisfactory nature of the false teaching. You come to it as to an exciting new spring-and find it has no water to offer' (Green... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:18 ‘For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,'_ ‘FOR' -The reason why they are called ‘springs without water' and ‘mists driven by. storm'. _‘ARROGANT WORDS'_ -‘excessive size, puffe... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:19 ‘promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what. man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.'_ ‘PROMISING THEM FREEDOM' -‘fancied liberty, i.e. license, the liberty to do as one pleases' (Thayer p. 204). The content of their great swelling words was “f... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:20 ‘For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.'_ ‘FOR IF AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED' -There is some question co... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:21 ‘For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them.'_ ‘FOR IT WOULD BE BETTER….NOT TO HAVE KNOWN' -This once again clearly emphasizes the fact that these false teachers had known... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 2 Peter 2:22 ‘It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.”_ ‘IT HAS HAPPENED TO THEM ACCORDING TO THE TRUE PROVERB' -‘the content of the true proverb has been “verified or realized” in their... [ Continue Reading ]