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2 Peter 2 — False Prophets and False Teachers
False teachers will arise in the church — denying the Lord, bringing damnable heresies, exploiting people with covetousness. God did not spare the angels who sinned, the ancient world, or Sodom and Gomorrah. He preserved Noah and Lot. He knows how to deliver the godly and to reserve the unjust unto judgment. The false teachers walk after the flesh, despise government, are like brute beasts. They have forsaken the right way.
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment.”
— 2 Peter 2:9
- v.1-3 False teachers will arise — even denying the Lord
- v.4-9 God spared not the angels, the flood world, Sodom — but preserved His own
- v.10-22 The character and end of false teachers
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.
The Lord knoweth how. The Lord has experience in this. He has rescued Noah from a flood, Lot from a destroyed city, Daniel from a den of lions. He still knows how.
A direct word of comfort to vexed believers. The deliverance is His business and His skill. Your part is righteous endurance; His part is timely deliverance.
Two grim proverbs to close. The first is from Proverbs 26:11; the second is a folk saying. Both describe the apostate — outwardly cleaned but inwardly unchanged.
The dog's vomit and the sow's wallow are pictures of returning to what one was. Genuine conversion changes the nature. False conversion produces only external improvement that the underlying nature inevitably reverses.
When you see false teaching on a public platform, do not panic. Peter said it was coming. The same Lord who preserved Noah and Lot still preserves His own. Stay vexed at what should vex you — never numb to the moral decay of a culture — but trust the Lord's skill in deliverance. He has done it many times; He has not yet failed.
The Lord who knoweth how to deliver is Christ Himself. He delivered Lot through angels; He delivers His people now through His indwelling Spirit and through the truth of His word. The same hand that rescued the patriarchs reaches into the lives of believers vexed by modern Sodoms.
Even denying the Lord that bought them. The phrase has been debated by theologians for centuries. Whatever the technical meaning, the practical truth is plain: false teachers will openly deny the Lord while claiming Christian credentials.
The pattern still operates. Some who appear to believe will deny Christ's deity, His atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His exclusive way. Peter warns the church not to be surprised. There shall be. It is a prophecy, not a possibility.