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DAMNATION SLUMBERETH NOT
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17
2 Peter 2:3-6
Jude 4-7
 
“For when they shall say,
Peace and safety; then sudden
destruction cometh upon them.”
 
DAMNATION SLUMBERETH NOT
 
Peter’s main goal in chapter 2 of this epistle is obviously to warn the church against the infiltration of false teachers. He warned us not to tolerate them. He was not at all hesitant to warn at the end of verse 3 that the “damnation” of the false teachers “slumbereth not.” These false teachers may be prospering, but their damnation is sure. The Apostle cited three events from the Old Testament as proof of divine judgment that will come upon the false teachers.
 
The Fallen Angels (2 Pet 2:4): Peter said, “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.” This is proof that God will judge also those false teachers. The story of the angelic rebellion and their banishment from heaven is recorded in Isaiah 14:12-15 and Ezekiel 28:11-19. Some of these fallen angels are now kept in “hell” for the final “judgment.” If God judged the rebellious angels, He will judge rebellious men too.
 
The World of Noah (2 Pet 2:5): After Noah preached 120 years (Gen 6:3), God punished the unrepentant world with a flood. The whole of mankind, except Noah’s family of eight, was killed. People of Noah’s time and our time are very similar in their rebellious lifestyle. If God punished the lawless then, He will punish the same today.
 
Sodom and Gomorrha (2 Pet 2:6): These two cities were filled with flagrant sins of sexual immorality. All sorts of sexual perversions existed there. In spite of Abraham’s intercessory prayer, they were destroyed by fire. If God reduced the proud, sensuous people of Sodom and Gomorrha to ashes, He will also punish the unrepentant sinners of our age.
 
After citing God’s wrath in the above incidents, Peter said that they were “an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly” (2 Pet 2:6). Every one who takes his sins lightly, or promotes falsehood in a casual manner must be warned to repent. Otherwise, God’s wrath will be poured on him.
 
THOUGHT: “Let another’s shipwreck be my beacon.”
PRAYER: (Use Psalm 19:13.)

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