Bible Teaching: 2 Peter 2 (False Teachers) - YouTube.
The Second Epistle of Peter was written by Simon Peter, an apostle of Christ, who also penned First Peter (see 2 Peter 3:1). The principal design of this letter was to “stir” Christian minds to a greater level of spirituality and to fortify them against the danger of certain false teachers who threatened their faith.The second epistle of Peter is a brief letter of reminders for first-century Christians. Peter urges his readers to make every effort to grow in their faith, to remember that the promises of God (spoken by the prophets and apostles) are trustworthy, and to beware those who teach otherwise.Barnes' Notes on the Bible. But there were false prophets also among the people - In the previous chapter, 2 Peter 2:19-21, Peter had appealed to the prophecies as containing unanswerable proofs of the truth of the Christian religion.He says, however, that he did not mean to say that all who claimed to be prophets were true messengers of God.
In chapters 2 and 3, Peter describes these false teachers and their teaching so that we may avoid them and the errors they promote. What We Need To Know About False Teachers (2:1-3) First, Peter strongly infers that we should regard anyone who claims to be a “prophet” as a false prophet.But there were also false prophets among the people, as there will be teachers of falsehood among you also, who will cunningly introduce fatal divisions, disowning even the Sovereign Lord who has redeemed them, and bringing on themselves swift destruction. 2 Peter 2:1 Parallel.
The Rise of False Prophets 1 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. 2 Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; 3 and in their greed they will.
