2 Peter 2:10-19

Peter's Indictment Of The False Preachers (2 Peter 2:10).

Peter accuses the false teachers, who are in total contrast to Noah and Lot, both of whom had had connections with angelic beings in one way or another, but had not become obsessed with such things, of a number of things:

· Firstly that they treated spiritual beings and their doings lightly. They were arrogant in their dealings with the spiritual world, and especially with regard to Satan. The impression given is they saw themselves as having access into that spiritual world through their ‘knowledge' and felt able to treat spiritual beings with contempt because of their own spiritual superiority. There is a warning here not to become involved with that world or with the occult. As we are warned as a result of Genesis 6:1, and here, mankind are not to try to pierce the veil that separates them from the ‘other world'.

· Secondly that they lived lives of sin and debauchery, caught up in a round of pleasures, deceiving others in order to persuade them to do the same, free and easy in sexual matters, and possessed by a love of wealth.

· Thirdly that like Balaam they had sold themselves to evil for the sake of prosperity and reward, something which even a dumb ass knew was folly.

Today we are likely to come across all three, for we live in a world which seeks after every new thing, and makes light of the spiritual dangers of the occult, which has simply let itself go in seeking the pleasures of the flesh, and whose love for wealth is destroying its very soul.