गुप्त रूप से नाश करनेवाले मत — झूठे उपदेश की कार्यशैली: खुली घोषणा नहीं, चुपके से प्रवेश।

Make merchandise of you. The motive of many false teachers is money. They turn the church into a market and the saints into customers. The same pattern persists in modern prosperity ministries.

Their damnation slumbereth not. Final judgment is not asleep. God may seem patient, but the verdict is on its way.

A glimpse into the judgment of fallen angels. Tartaros — the Greek word translated hell — is a particularly grim term for the place of their confinement. Even angels in rebellion are not exempt.

The point is sobering. If created angels could not escape judgment, neither will fallen men who reject Christ. Privilege does not avert wrath; submission to God averts wrath.

Just Lot. A surprising designation. Genesis 19 portrays Lot as deeply compromised — sitting in the gate of Sodom, offering his daughters, lingering at the moment of escape. Yet Peter calls him just.

The verse rescues Lot's reputation. He was a flawed believer in a horrific environment. The Spirit grades by inner orientation, not by perfect behavior. Lot belongs in heaven by grace, not by his merit.

Vexed his righteous soul from day to day. Lot suffered spiritually in Sodom even while he stayed. The believer in a corrupt environment is sometimes most distressed by what he sees daily without being able to leave.

Many a Christian today knows the same vexation — at work, in school, in family. The pain is real. Peter says the Lord knows how to deliver such — the next verse.

प्रभु भक्तों को परीक्षा से निकालना जानता है — न्याय के बीच विश्वासियों के लिए ढाढ़स। भक्तों के लिए परमेश्वर की देखभाल अटूट।

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