Peter begins the next segment of his letter in the context of his affection and love for the recipients. As he is winding down the second of his two letters, he states plainly that one of his motivations in both is to awaken them and remind them of certain things.
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What a dreary passage, so much of 2 Peter 2 is!
Such a description of such evil, bad people! Corrupted too. And I think that’s what’s most outstanding to me this morning. Peter is warning against being fooled and deceived by men who had been believers in Jesus.
Once upon a time, they had been saved “through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ”! They had experienced deliverance from “the pollutions of the world.” But then they had “forsaken the right way” to go astray and become entangled again in that moral and spiritual pollution.
Not only did they “turn from the holy commandment”, they set about to entrap, fool, and delude…
“to entrap, i.e. (figuratively) delude”
Well, here — read about them yourself and be warned: Continue reading