Episode 297: Lot, the just and righteous

2 Peter 1-3

Greetings and Salutations! (Don't try to interpret this letter)

1 ¹ From Simon Peter to all believers.

¹⁴ I know that I will die soon.

^17-18 We were on the mountain when we heard the voice of God say to Jesus, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased."

²⁰ No prophecy in scripture is subject to anyone's private interpretation.

Damnable heresies

2 ¹ There were false prophets before and there will be false prophets again, with their damnable heresies, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

² Many will follow them to their damnation.

Sinning angels, righteous Noah, and just Lot

⁴ God didn't spare the angels who sinned but cast them down to hell.

⁵ He drowned everyone on earth in the flood except for Noah, a preacher of righteousness.

⁶ He turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes.

⁷ But saved the just man Lot, who endured the filthy conversation of the wicked.

⁸ That righteous man, whose righteous soul saw their unlawful deeds.

^9-10 But God knows how to punish unjust people, especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise government.

¹² They're like animals that should be killed and destroyed. They'll die in their own corruption.

¹³ They think it's fun to riot in the daytime.

¹⁴ Their eyes are full of adultery, and they sin constantly.

A talking donkey

¹⁵ They follow Balaam, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.

¹⁶ But he was rebuked by a donkey who spoke with a man's voice.

Dog vomit

²¹ It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, and then turn from the holy commandment given to them.

²² The proverb speaks of them saying, “The dog returns to his own vomit.”

This is my second letter to you.

3 ¹ This is the second epistle that I've written to you.

There will be scoffers who'll say, "Where's Jesus?"

³ There will be scoffers in the last days who will say,

Where's Jesus?

⁴ Many have died believing he would return, but everything is the same as it always has been.

God will burn heaven and earth (but it might not be for a few thousand years or so)

⁶ God previously destroyed the world in a flood.

⁷ On the day of judgment, he'll burn the heavens and earth with fire to destroy ungodly people.

⁸ But a day with the Lord is a thousand years, and a thousand years is a day.

¹⁰ The day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. The sky will darken with a great noise, and everything on earth will melt and burn.

¹³ But we look forward to a new heaven and a new earth.

Paul's epistles are hard to understand

^15-16 All of Paul's epistles are hard to understand. And some misinterpret them, as they do the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

¹⁷ So don't be led astray by wicked people.

¹⁸ Amen.