రహస్యంగా దుర్బోధనాశ్రయ ఉపదేశాలు — తప్పుడు ఉపదేశం యొక్క పద్ధతి: బహిరంగ ప్రకటన కాదు, రహస్య చొరబాటు.

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.

భక్తులను ఎలా విడిపించాలో ప్రభువుకు తెలుసు — తప్పుడు ఉపదేశకులపై తీర్పుల మధ్య విశ్వాసులకు ప్రోత్సాహం. భక్తుల కొరకు దేవుని శ్రద్ధ తప్పదు.

తన వాంతిని తినే కుక్క... కడిగిన పంది మళ్లీ బురదలో దొర్లుట — తప్పుడు ఉపదేశకుల యొక్క కటువు చిత్రాలు. తాత్కాలిక మార్పిడి యొక్క బోలుతనం.