The Doom of False Teachers

Topic: Justice
Passage: 2 Peter 2:4–9

November 18, 2022

Commentary

Peter gives three historic examples of God’s judgement of sin:

  1. The fallen angles in verse 4. (Gen. 6:1-4)
  2. The ungodly people of Noah’s day in verse 5. (Gen. 7)
  3. The ungodly people at Sodom and Gomorrah in verse 6. (Gen. 19).

We see an explanation of Divine deliverance (vv. 7-9). In light of Genesis 19 it may seem very strange that Lot is used as an example of righteousness. Perhaps it was because he was righteous in contrast to the totally wicked population in these twin cities. It is a fact that seeing and hearing their vile ways day after day Lot was grieved to the point of inner torture. (v. 7).Just as God rescued Lot from Sodom, so he is able to rescue us from the temptations and trials we face in this wicked world. Lot was not sinless, but he put his trust in God and was spared when Sodom was destroyed. God will judge those who cause the temptations and trials, so we don’t need to worry about justice being done in the day which we live.

Application

I am glad that I serve a God who is just. I have never reached a state of sinless perfection but my Lord is just and forgiving because He loves me and is my Savior.

2 Peter 2:4– 9 (NET)

4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment, 5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world, 6 and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, having appointed them to serve as an example to future generations of the ungodly, 7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men, 8 (for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard) 9 —if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment,