2 Peter Class #5
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Review Question #1: What are the main points in vs. 1-11 of this chapter?
The destructiveness, doom and depravity of false teachers
Review Question #2: What was Lot oppressed about?
Living in Sodom every day seeing and hearing the filthy conduct of the wicked
Review Question #3: Did the Angles bring negative accusations against dignitaries before the Lord?
No
Peter then discusses the depravity of false teachers. In arrogance they revile against authority, all the while reveling in pleasure and lusts as they circulate among the Christians they seek to influence. Like the prophet Balaam, they are motivated by the wages of unrighteousness and have forsaken the right way. Empty of true substance, they are like wells without water, clouds tossed by a tempest (10-17).
Peter then discusses the depravity of false teachers. In arrogance they revile against authority, all the while reveling in pleasure and lusts as they circulate among the Christians they seek to influence. Like the prophet Balaam, they are motivated by the wages of unrighteousness and have forsaken the right way. Empty of true substance, they are like wells without water, clouds tossed by a tempest (10-17).
Finally, Peter describes the deceptions of false teachers. In both their methods and promises they seek to deceive those who like them had once escaped the pollutions of the world. But the false teachers are once again enslaved by such pollutions and their last end is worse than the beginning (18-22).
Finally, Peter describes the deceptions of false teachers. In both their methods and promises they seek to deceive those who like them had once escaped the pollutions of the world. But the false teachers are once again enslaved by such pollutions and their last end is worse than the beginning (18-22).
But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you. They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children! Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing, but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
How does Peter further describe the false teachers? (12-14)
They speak evil of things they do not understand
They count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime
They have eyes full of adultery, beguiling unstable souls
In whose way have such false teachers followed? (15-16)
Balaam, who loved the wages of unrighteousness and was rebuked by a donkey
These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved. For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
How else does Peter describe these false teachers? (17)
As wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest For whom the gloom of darkness is reserved
How are the false teachers able to allure others? (18)
By speaking great swelling words of emptiness
Through the lusts of the flesh and licentiousness
In promising others liberty, they themselves are not slaves of corruption. (19)
YES
What had these false teachers once escaped? How? (20)
The pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of Jesus Christ
How had their latter end become worse for them than the beginning? (20-21)
It would have better for them not to have known the way of righteousness
Than knowing it, to then turn from the holy commandment
What twofold proverb does Peter use to describe their sorry condition? (22)
A dog returns to his own vomit
A sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire
What are at least 3 questions you should ask yourself in order to help recognize false teaching?
What are at least 3 questions you should ask yourself in order to help recognize false teaching?