2 Peter 2:13 They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Not only do the teachers and prophets speak forth the wrong message but how they live also shows that they are false. False teaching will deteriorate to wrong lifestyle. Becoming disconnected from the source of life will lead to death, spiritual and then eventually emotional and physical. Sometimes this is a slow and painful death and other times death comes quickly. Peter says very harsh things in this verse against these false teachers. This verse shows two major consequences for their actions. One is that they will be judged. The harm they do to others will be repaid to them. Peter does not say here how they will be repaid, but verse 4 implies that God will judge them. Two is that they have followed their pleasures in broad daylight. By doing this, they have set a bad example for those who follow them. An implied consequence is given in the last phrase in that they are doing all this while in the presence of the church. This means that their bad influence has become part of the feasting of the church. The church needs to act by rejecting these people before they pull the church away from God’s clear truth. Although these verses are not easy or pleasant to read, they give us strong warnings about how important it is that we stick to the truth and that we do let ourselves be convinced by false teaching.
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