Pastor Chris’ Corona Quarantine Epistles to the Flock of AIC Ngong Road, in Dispersion and Isolation. 168th Edition.
Dear Strangers and Aliens in this World,
In today’s passage (2 Peter 2:12-14) we continue with the theme of false teachers, their practices, and their doom.
Corruption (v. 12). The word corrupt means rotten. Peter likens the false teachers to “brute beasts” meant for destruction. The idea is of irrational animals driven by their appetites, because of which they pose danger to those around them and are best eliminated. The confidence with which they speak of things they do not understand will be their undoing. That they will perish in their corruption hints at the fact that even their false teaching is motivated by lust.
Carousal (v. 13). The false teachers openly indulge their sinful appetites and behave as though nothing was amiss. They even “feast” with Christians. This most probably refers to the communion service, which in the early church was celebrated as part of a “love feast.” They may have got drunk, as others had done in the church in Corinth (1 Corinthians 11:21). Like those Corinthians, they faced a similar fate (1 Corinthians 11:30). Some illnesses and even death result from blatant disregard of God’s honor.
Covetousness (v. 14). The way some people sin can be described as greed for sin. It is almost as if they are trying to outdo one another in their sinning. In the process, they entice others and drag them into their filth. Such have so yielded themselves to sin that they can no longer control themselves. Peter calls them accursed. That such people would purport to preach the gospel beats logic, but that anyone would listen to them at all is even more mind-boggling.
It is a warning to us that sin can blind one to the point of not seeing the obvious.
Your Loving Pastor Chris.