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

2 Pet. 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;
The word "hell" used here is "tartaros" which means the deepest part of the abyss.

The angels that Peter is referring to are those of Genesis chapter 6 who left their first estate [heaven] and came to earth and took the daughters of Adam to wife.

The resulting unions of angel and flesh woman brought forth giants and caused our Father to bring about the flood of Noah to destroy them.

These "fallen angels" will soon be cast out with Satan, Apollyon, to this earth (Rev. 12:7-9) and will stand with the son of perdition, Satan, in the temple of God (2 Thes. 2), and will be destroyed at Christ's second coming (Rev. 11:13).

Here's Jude.

Jude 1:6
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
And there were only 8 Adamic people left on planet earth that would have nothing to do with these angels, and they were Noah and his family.

That is exactly what the phrase "Noah was perfect in his generations" means, i.e. Noah and his family had a perfect [unblemished] pedigree and had not intermarried with the angels who left heaven and came here directly without being born of woman.

So God wiped out the land of the giants with a great flood, all but Noah and his family!


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;
7  And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8  (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
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, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
11  Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
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;
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:
2 Peter 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;
2 Pet. 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;
See, they have FORSAKEN the right way, which means they know better!

Read the story of Balaam in Numbers 22 & 23 how he "forsook" for money.


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.
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.
2 Pet. 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.
Some preachers start out with the right motive but soon become corrupt and follow the way of Balaam after greed and money.

They spend half their airtime begging for money or selling books and trinkets.

The other half they spend on sermons about tithing.

No wonder the very first warning of Jesus Christ about our generation is: Matthew 24:4,5 "Take heed that no man deceive you.

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many."

Deceive just a few?
No! Many!

So watch out for con-artists!

To "the many" they don't appear as con-artists, do they?

They look like nice guys and gals!

Note: And by the way. If you have accepted Jesus and not been taught the oracles of God in this generation, then you will follow Satan, when he appears, for you will believe he is Jesus.


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.
 
 

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