EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/13/2025
7:35 PM
My
Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “Their
Presumption”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2
Peter 2:10b-13a
Message of the verses: “Daring, self-willed, they do not
tremble when they revile angelic majesties, whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not
bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord. But these, like unreasoning animals, born as
creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no
knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,
suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong.”
This evening I want to pick up where
I left off in last evening’s SD and so I think it best to quote a paragraph
from MacArthur’s commentary: “In
contrast, even righteous angels who are greater in might and power do not
bring a reviling judgment against them (the angelic majesties of verse ten)
before the Lord.” (See highlighted portion above which is verse
ten.) “Since there is no modifier, the
term angels refers to the holy ones who are certainly greater in
might and power than either fallen men or demons. But even from their exalted position, holy
angels do not disrespect their fall counterparts like the false teachers
do. For example, the preeminently
powerful Michael, ‘when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body
of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said ‘The
Lord rebuke you!’’(Jude 9). Like
Michael, believers should not confront Satan and his minions alone. Instead, they should seek God intervening
power against demons. Yet false
teachers, by stark contrast, are so self-confident, brazen, and reckless that
they did what even Michael ‘did not care’ to do—directly reviling
angelic majesties as though they had authority over them.” When we were studying the book of Jude
earlier this was written about when we looked at Jude 8-9 which says “Yet in
the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority
and revile angelic majesties. But Michel
the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of
Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said ‘The
Lord rebuke you.”
Now the reckless blasphemies of God and angels by
false teachers demonstrate that they are like unreasoning animals (cf. Jude
10). “But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the
things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things
they are destroyed.” MacArthur
writes “They are comparable to beasts that have no rational capability,
operating solely on self-indulgence and unthinking passion. Animals are born as creatures of
instinct, meaning that their responses to stimuli are pre-programed, having
been built into their genetic makeup by God (cf. Gen. 1:30).” “and to every beast of the earth and to
every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has
life, I have given every green plant for food’; and it was so.” “Because they operate on instinct,
animals are not rational; thus they make no intellectual contributions to
society. In fact, for most of them,
their primary role in the ecological system is to be captured and killed, thereby
providing meat for other members up the food chain.
“Spiritual pretenders, dishonestly
presenting themselves are true teachers, exhibit an animal-like ignorance, reviling
where they have no knowledge. They
ridicule divine truth and heavenly authority, including things they do not even
understand. Like animals, they make no
positive contribution and would actually serve others best by being dead. Hence the end of verse 12 predicts that they will…be
destroyed; they will not escape God’s future wrath. When God’s fire consumes the entire world and
all its creatures (3:7, 12), false teachers will also be finally wiped
out in the destruction of those creatures.
Jude adds that false teachers’ instinctive evil programs them to be destroyed
(v. 10). As God’s enemies, having
intentionally distorted the message of His Word, they will all face eternal
punishment in the lake of fire (Rev. 20:9-15).”
“ 9And they
came up on the [d]broad plain of
the earth and surrounded the camp of the [e]saints and
the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and
devoured them. 10And
the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of
fire and [f]brimstone,
where the beast and the false prophet are also;
and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Judgment
at the Throne of God
11Then I saw a
great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from
whose [g]presence earth and
heaven fled, and no place was found for them. 12And I saw the dead,
the great and the small, standing before the throne, and [h]books were
opened; and another [i]book was
opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were
judged from the things which were written in the [j]books,
according to their deeds. 13And the
sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and
Hades gave up the dead who were in them; and they were
judged, each one of them according to their
deeds. 14Then Death and
Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the
second death, the lake of fire. 15And if [k]anyone’s name
was not found written in the book of life, he was
thrown into the lake of fire.”
MacArthur concludes:
“In fact, the lake of fire is where false teachers will forever endure
the fury of God’s wrath, suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. (Suffering wrong is not the best
translation, since it might be misunderstood that it is wrong for God to judge
them. The Greek is adikoumenoi, a
present middle or passive verb form best understood as meaning ‘to be damaged,’
‘to be harmed,’ or ‘to be injured’ (cf. Rev. 2:11].) In that way they epitomize the law of sowing
and reaping. ‘Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man
sows, this he will also reap’ (Gal. 6:7; cf. Hos. 10:12-13). Those who dedicate themselves to false
doctrine, exhibiting a presumptuous approach to spiritual things, will
eternally be punished for their transgressions (cf. Jer. 8:1-2; 14:15; 29:32).”
Now Lord willing I will begin to
look at the next sub-section “Their Practices” from 2 Peter 2:13b-14, in
tomorrow evenings SD.
12/13/2025
8:14 PM
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