GOD DID NOT SPARE ANGELS WHO SINNED

2 Peter 2:4-11
[4]For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
[5]if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
[6]if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
[7]and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless
[8](for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—
[9]if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
[10]This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to heap abuse on celestial beings;
[11]yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not heap abuse on such beings when bringing judgment on them from the Lord.
In order to warn his readers and urge them to action, Peter recalled 3 examples of God judgement and deliverance: (1)God judged the angels who sinned Genesis 6:1-8
[1]When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,
[2]the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
[3]Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal ; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
[4]The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
[5]The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
[6]The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.
[7]So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”
[8]But Noah found favour in the eyes of the Lord.
Hell here translates Taratus, a subterranean place of punishment Lower than hades reserved for the wicked.
(2) God judged the ancient world in the flood
Genesis 7:17-23
[17]For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
[18]The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
[19]They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.
[20]The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.
[21]Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.
[22]Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
[23]Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. But protected Noah and 7 others
Genesis 7:13-16
[13]On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.
[14]They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings.
[15]Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.
[16]The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.
(3) He judged the immoral cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
Genesis 19:23-29
[23]By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.
[24]Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens.
[25]Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.
[26]But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
[27]Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
[28]He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
[29]So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived. Peter pointed out God was capable of delivering the godly, from destructive false teaching of heretics in their midst. The unrighteous would not escape God’s sovereignty or punishment.

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