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LESSON 2 * PART 4 * BOOK 55
II Peter 1:1 – 2:8 - Part 2
Now verse 4. God hasn’t changed. God still operates the way He always has. Every day these false teachers completely undermine the truth; every day the fleshpots of this world are capitalizing on the human weaknesses; and someday soon God’s wrath is going to fall.
II 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;" In other words, that started way back, I think, between verse 1 and verse 2 of Genesis. Which, in verse 1, you have the perfect creation. Maybe it’s about time we refresh peoples’ memories.
Genesis chapter 1. Genesis 1:1
"In the beginning (before anything ever appeared) God created the heaven and the earth." Now the God of this Book is not a God that does anything less than perfect, is He? It’s covered with water.
Genesis 1:2
My it’s been about 13 years since we taught Genesis on television - and the last time, we taught this. All right, Ezekiel 28:13 where God is speaking through the prophet to an individual, and He says:
Ezekiel 28:13a
"Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God;.…" Adam, Eve and Satan. Okay, so, whoever God is talking to, it’s one of those three. "Thou hast been in Eden...."
Ezekiel 28:13b
Ezekiel 28:14a
"Thou art the anointed cherub (an angel) that covereth; (or ruleth is a better word in the Hebrew here. Here we have an angel who was ruling and reigning. And God says,) and I have set thee so: (I’ve put you in this place of authority) thou wast upon the holy mountain of God;…." Now there are no human beings yet, as Adam and Eve weren’t on the scene yet when this angel was ruling - it was an angelic kingdom.
Now verse 15.
Ezekiel 28:15
"Thou wast (past tense) perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, (What’s the next word?) till (for a period of time this angel was perfect, he was sinless. Now, God will not stand iniquity without doing something about it - in angels any more than humans. Isaiah 14:12
"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! Isaiah 14:13-14
Usurp the place of God. And what does God say? We pick them up now in Revelation chapter 12 verse 4, where in his rebellion in assuming to take over the throneroom of God, evidently one-third of the angels over whom he was ruling followed him in the rebellion. Revelation 12:4
All right, now then if you’ll just back up a couple of pages to the little book of Jude again, right in front of Revelation, we pick up these same fallen angels in verse 6. Here we have this ruling angel over this glorious earthly kingdom, which was filled with the gemstones of fire – beauty beyond description. All right now, verse 6 in Jude.
Jude 1:6
II Peter chapter 2 now verse 4:
II Peter 2:4
"For if God spared not the angels that sinned, (who rebelled against God’s authority and attempted to follow Lucifer) but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;" In perfect accord with Jude and Revelation, see? All right, now we come to the next event that Peter can relate to; verse 5, when again the mass of humanity rebelled against the God of creation and, again, in their wickedness, God had to move in with a judgment.
II Peter 2:5a
"And spared not the old world, (destroyed it with a flood) but saved Noah the eighth person,…." II Peter 2:5b
"…(Noah) a preacher of righteousness,.…" Noah preached for 120 years. That if anybody would wake up and realize that old Noah must be right, they could have gone on board. People are trying to get to Heaven every way except the right way!
All right, verse 6, and we come up through history here. Now we’re past the flood a little over 400 years, and we’re at Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham and Lot were the ones that divided the land and Lot took Sodom remember? All right, so verse 6:
II Peter 2:6
Even as God destroyed the iniquity before the flood, even as He destroyed the iniquity in Sodom and Gomorrah - and we all know what that was - and He condemned them with an overthrow and a total destruction because of their ungodly lifestyle.
I’m guessing. II Peter 2:7
"And delivered just (righteous) Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:" That’s what the word ‘just’ means here; it doesn’t mean ‘only,’ it means the ‘righteous’ man, Lot. II Peter 2:8
Sodom and Gomorrah had it made. Well, look what Sodom and Gomorrah were when they were destroyed.
Ezekiel 16:49
Ezekiel 16:50
"And they were haughty, (proud - now we’re talking about the citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah just before they’re destroyed.) Prosperity. Now back to II Peter. Let’s read verse 8 again, and we’ll be through.
II Peter 2:8

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