False Teachers and Their Destruction - 2 Peter 2:1-22
Understand It
- What did Peter warn his readers that false prophets would attempt to do? (2:1)
- What did Peter say would happen when people followed false prophets? (2:2)
- What did God do to the angels who had sinned? (2:4)
- Whom did Peter say God protected? (2:5)
- What did God use as an example of what will happen to the ungodly? (2:6)
- What effect did living among immoral people have upon Lot? (2:7-8)
- How did Peter say the Lord would deal with the godly and the unrighteous? (2:9)
- What kind of people are unafraid to slander celestial beings? (2:10-15)
- How did God rebuke Balaam? (2:16)
- What did Peter say was reserved for people who rebel against God? (2:17)
- How did the evil people of whom Peter wrote affect others? (2:18)
- What did such sinful men promise? (2:19)
- To what were sinful people slaves? (2:19)
- How did Peter say a person could escape the corruption of the world? (2:20)
- In what way would it have been better for ungodly people to have never heard of God? Why? (2:21)
- What proverbs did Peter apply to the blatantly ungodly? (2:22)
Apply It
- Beginning today, from what sinful desire will you ask God to help you escape?
- What steps will you take today to ensure that you don’t allow your exercise of freedom to result in your enslavement to sin?
- How will you deal with the effect of living in a sinful world today?
