Aug. 23, 2026

"WATCH OUT" "WARNING, WATCH OUT, BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS"                2 PETER 2:1-9

*Deception- 2 Peter 2:1

2 Peter 2:1 “But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.”

"destructive heresies” vs.1- The word heresy originally meant simply to make a choice, but then it came to mean a sect ,a party.

Galatians 5:20 “idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies.”

In verse 3 false teachers used "deceptive words". The greek word is plastos, from which we get our English word plastic.

*Denial- 2 Peter 2:1  "Denying the Lord”

*Sensuality- 1 Peter 2:2

1 Peter 2:2 “And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.”

"destructive ways" simply means licentious conduct, the ways of immorality.

Jeremiah 23:14 “Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies; They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one turns back from his wickedness. All of them are like Sodom to Me, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.”

*Greed- 2 Peter 2:

2 Peter 2:3 “By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.”

1 Thessalonians 2:5 “For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak for covetousness—God is witness.”

Micah describe these false prophets in his day. 

Micah 3:11 “Her heads judge for a bribe, Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the Lord, and say, “Is not the Lord among us? No harm can come upon us.”

2.  The False Teachers Destroyed- 2 Pet. 2:3-6,9

Judgment was sure, it will come, no matter how secure the sinner might feel. He used to three examples to verify this truth:

*The Fallen Angels- 2 Peter 2:4 

2 Peter 2:4 “For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment.”

Revelation 12:4 “His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born.”

Revelation 12:9 “So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 

Where are these fallen angels now?