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2 Peter 2 Those That walk In
Darkness of The World
Verse 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh
in the lust of
uncleanness, and despise government.
Presumptuous are they,
self willed,
they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
The subject the apostle continues the practical teaching of the
earlier letter, exhorts, and warns, illustrating again from the Old
Testament history, while himself foretelling the conditions of "the last
days", "the day of judgment", "the day of the Lord", and "the day of
God".
The similarity to the teaching in Jude should be
noticed.
Time of The Writing, This is generally
placed between 61 and 65 A.D., but the year is conjectural, although it
may reasonably be presented that this epistle was written within a
comparatively short period after the First.
2 Peter 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.
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Exhortation = Diligence
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What the apostolic witness
was not = A myth
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way
of truth shall be evil spoken of.
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They like to speak evil about anything that has
to do with Christ.
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.
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;
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God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast
them down to hell
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Delivered them into chains of darkness, to be
reserved unto judgment
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;
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;
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The cities of Sodom and Gomorrha =
an ensample unto those that after should live
ungodly
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the
wicked:
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What was going on at the time of Sodom and
Gomorrah, that God came down on the people to
destroyed them?
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Same sex marriages, killing babies and weakness
= Bible study hour
Sodom and
Gomorrah
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Isaiah 1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in
a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a
besieged city.
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This daughter is symbolic of the remnant.
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He will always protect her.
Genesis 19:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us
a very small
remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have
been like unto Gomorrah.
5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men
which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that
we may know them.
The men telling Lot to bring out the men, the
angels
We may know them - lie with man
Lev 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as
with womankind: it is abomination.
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing,
vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
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Reasons = Positive and
Negative.
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:
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of
uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self willed,
they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
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They like to speak evil about anything that has
to do with Christ.
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2 Peter 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.
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Government = dominion
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Eph 1:21 Far above all principality, and power,
and might, and dominion, and every name that is
named, not only in this world, but also
in that which is to come:
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Jude 8-10 Likewise also these filthy
dreamers defile the flesh, despise
dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending
with the devil he disputed about the
body of Moses, durst not bring against
him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord
rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things
which they know not: but what they know
naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they
corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in
the way of Cain, and ran greedily after
the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in
the gainsaying of Core.
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Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless,
as the steward of God; not self
willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no
striker, not given to filthy lucre;
8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of
good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been
taught, that he may be able by sound
doctrine both to exhort and to convince the
gainsayers.
10 For there are many unruly and vain
talkers and deceivers, specially they
of the circumcision:
11 Whose mouths must be stopped,
who subvert whole houses, teaching
things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's
sake.
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Presumptuous = Daring = Only here. self willed.
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Are not afraid = do not tremble.
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Speak evil of = blaspheme, as 2 Peter 2:2.
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Verse 2 And many shall follow their pernicious
ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall
be evil spoken of.
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Dignities = Literally glories = used as a title.
11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not
railing accusation against them before the Lord.
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Don't argue with Satan! You know better.
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Order
him out or he will deceive you.
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Instinctively
throw him out!
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;
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;
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We can all join hands and worship together and
then allow all sorts of corruption.
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Worship based on anything other than God's Word
can be dangerously misleading.
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:
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;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's
voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a
tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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