2 Peter
Chapter Two
Lesson Seven

Read 2 Peter chapter Two

2Pe 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

(Notice that verse one says these false prophets (preachers / teachers) will bring in "damnable heresies".  All teachings that do not line up 100% with Scripture is damnable (Read Galatians 1:8). God does not play around with His Word. Either preach it right, or don't preach it at all....AND, if you run across someone who is not preaching God's Word correctly, rebuke them and if they will not repent, let them be accursed. Let everyone know they are a false teacher. This would include ANYONE who claims to have “another Gospel”, or another prophet who is adding to or changing what God's Word says. Stay away from Catholicism, Mormonism, Jehovah witnesses, Christian Science, and all other such heresies)

2Pe 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

2Pe 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

(Covetousness is the root of their false teaching. They want to preach what the people want to hear so they can "make merchandise" out of them...in other words, so they can get their money. 2 Timothy 4:3 says that in the last days people will surround themselves with teachers and preachers who will preach what they want to hear. And these false teachers will love it because they can get rich off of them.)

2Pe 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

2Pe 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2Pe 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

2Pe 2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

2Pe 2:8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

2Pe 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

(Those false teachers will be judged by God and it will not be good for them.  If you are part of this, get out now.  It is better to admit you are wrong, then to die and be cast into hell).

2Pe 2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

2Pe 2:11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

2Pe 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

2Pe 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

2Pe 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

2Pe 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

2Pe 2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

2Pe 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

2Pe 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

2Pe 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

2Pe 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

(This verse is not teaching that they can lose their salvation. 1 John 2:19 tells us that if a person leaves the faith, they never were really saved to start with. So, this verse is telling us that these were religious people that were entangled again, not saved people. If a person is truly saved, they have "everlasting" life, and no man can pluck them out of God's hands.)

2Pe 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

(Notice this verse says it had been better for them not to have "KNOWN" the way of Righteousness. Many people know about Jesus and the Gospel, but many do not "accept" it. The Bible no where tells us to "know" about Jesus to be saved. It says we must "accept" and "call" upon Him. These verses are talking about people who "know" about Jesus and the Gospel, and play a religious game for a while, and then turn back to the world. They never were saved, and since they know about the Gospel, they now have no excuse whatsoever. And so, it is worse for them than someone who has never heard.)

2Pe 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

(Here again, the dog is still a dog, and the sow is still a sow. There was no real change. The sow was washed, and the dog had left his vomit, but neither had been changed. When someone accepts the Lord as their Saviour and is truly born again, they are changed, they become a new person. Verse 22 re-affirms that these people were never saved.)