False Prophets and Teachers.
But [in those days] false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will subtly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2 Peter 2:1
INTRODUCTION
This Epistle was addressed to the same persons or churches as the former one, 2Pe_3:1. But years separate the two, and the aged Apostle was expecting to be called upon to seal his witness with his blood, 2Pe_1:14. His purpose in this dying charge is to caution the Christian community against the dangers which were insidiously at work among them, and were more to be feared than persecution from without. His great argument to this end is the near advent of our Lord.
The genuineness of this Epistle has been questioned; but it is contained in the list of canonical books put forth by the Council of Carthage in A.D. 397. There is so strong an identity in the use of words, between these two Epistles, and the testimony of the writer as an eye-witness of the glory of the Transfiguration is so unmistakable, that we need entertain no doubt as to the justice of its position among the accepted Scriptures. Compare 2Pe_1:16-17 with 1Pe_5:1.
OUTLINE OF THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PETER
Faith’s Conflict and Victory
FAITH ASSAULTED
The Invasion of Unbelievers
Warnings from Past Judgments
3. What evidence is there that judgment awaits evil-doers?
FALSE PROPHETS AND TEACHERS
But [in those days] false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will subtly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.
Many will follow their shameful ways, and because of them the way of truth will be maligned.
And in their greed they will exploit you with false arguments and twisted doctrine. Their sentence [of condemnation which God has decreed] from a time long ago is not idle [but is still in force], and their destruction and deepening misery is not asleep [but is on its way].
For if God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but threw them into hell and sent them to pits of gloom to be kept [there] for judgment;
and if He did not spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought [the judgment of] a flood upon the world of the ungodly; [Genesis 6-8; 1Pe_3:20]
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 lives thereafter; [Gen_19:24]
and if He rescued righteous Lot, who was tormented by the immoral conduct of unprincipled and ungodly men [Gen_19:16, Gen_19:29]
(for that just man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by what he saw and heard of their lawless acts),
then [in light of the fact that all this is true, be sure that] the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and how to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
and especially those who indulge in the corrupt passions of the sin nature, and despise authority. Presumptuous and reckless, self-willed and arrogant [creatures, despising the majesty of the Lord], they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties,
whereas even angels who are superior in might and power do not bring a reviling (defaming) accusation against them before the Lord. [Jud_1:8]
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
on
2 Peter 2:1-11
DOOM AND DELIVERANCE
Already the early Church was threatened with destructive heresies introduced by men who desired only their self-aggrandizement. All the Apostles give warning against such, and point to character as the one supreme test of doctrine. The real drift of the heresies is to deny the Master, who bought us as slaves in the market of the world. Of all the bidders, there is none who has bidden so high as he.
Many instances are quoted from the past to prove the fearful judgments which must overtake such false teachers. The angels who placed their self-will in antagonism to their Maker were cast down to Tartarus-a Greek word used only here in the New Testament. The people who lived previous to the Flood, and they who afterward at Sodom disregarded the laws of purity and self-restraint, dictated alike by nature and conscience, were overwhelmed in destruction. But even amid such judgments, God discriminates His Noahs and His Lots, preserves and delivers them, and numbers them among His jewels, Mal_3:17. God has His eye on you and will succor you.
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