 Yes. So as you have noticed, you know, like 2nd Peter, once again, with a lot of practical advice, so it is easy for us to follow. So yeah, so far we've seen Peter's encouragement and then towards the end of what he's saying, he is emphasizing on the fact that God is true to his word and the prophetic word will surely come to pass. So be strong in God and continue to follow him. So that's the way in which he's talking. And he asks the believers to continue to live an honourable life, a holy life and partake of the divine nature of God. So we finish verse 19, again now verse 20 and 21, that's also about prophecy. You can learn so much about prophecy from just these 3 verses. So here he says, knowing this first that no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation. Okay, so that simply says that prophecy is speaking the mind of God. It's not people's opinions, people's interpretation, people's suggestions, that's not what prophecy. So true prophecy, genuine prophecy, what is it? It is the mind of God, which is being spoken, you know, when God says that okay, I am going to, you know, call, I am going to lead you in the ministry or this is what I am going to do in your life that you will serve me in such a country. So there are so many words that are spoken as prophecy, isn't it? So genuine prophecy is from God, but are there false prophecies? There could be. Now that is not what we are referring to, but genuine prophecy is always something that God has spoken and that is why he says scripture, no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation. And so you see, prophecy has no private interpretation. Similarly, he says prophecy of scripture. So in one sense, when we study the word of God, you know, it is prophetic. God's word itself is prophetic and the meaning of what is in the word of God, we have to search the meaning, the right meaning and that is why, you know, Paul puts it like you rightly divide the word of God. So we can, you know, anyone can read the Bible. You also have people like, you know, scientists, historians, archaeologists, different people who have read the Bible and come up with all kinds of interpretation. Now, what is that? That is human interpretation, but that's not exactly what the Bible says. For us to understand the Bible, you know, we really need the mind of God. And you also see in this particular verse that no prophecy of scripture. So God's word is prophetic. It carries the mind of God. Then for prophecy never came by the will of man. Again, you know, we are being told that the origin of prophecy is what God is the origin of prophecy. But holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. So moved by the Holy Spirit refers to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. So again, you know, that gives us so much clarity about how one prophesies. One cannot prophesy without the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. So whatever has been recorded, even, you know, he says holy men of God. That means in the Old Testament, there are so many prophecies, isn't it? By Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, how did they prophesy? They were moved or influenced, inspired by the Holy Spirit. Now, coming to chapter two here. Now, chapter two and a little bit of chapter three, you will notice that he's very directly addressing people who are dangerous. These are the ones that the believers must be careful about. So starting from verse one here, he says, but there were also false prophets. So till now he said, like true prophecy comes from God, but there are also false prophets. So what is it false prophets? Remember when we studied prophecy, we said that like people who prophesy of their own minds, God said that they deceive you. They who speak of their own minds, they deceive you. So such are false prophets among the people. Even as they were, there will be false teachers among you. So now he is saying that you understand to the people. He's saying you understand who false prophets are. They don't present the mind of God to us. Similarly, similarly, he talks of another category and notice that category, false teachers, false teachers. When we studied about prophecy, we said that true prophecy, one is it is from God. It speaks the mind of God. It edifies exalts, comforts the believers. Then it draws us closer to God. Remember, it needs to cause us to worship God. And also the prophecy, it is through the work of the Holy Spirit, but it is in alignment with the word of God because the Spirit and the word agree. 1 John 5-7. And so all these are features of genuine and true prophetic word. However, the opposite of that is what? False prophecy. False prophecy is not from God. It is from the mind of man and it will not draw us close to God, but it will take us away from God and it does not agree with the word of God. So these are all features of false prophecy. Similarly, when we look at false teachers, what will happen if we listen and if we receive the false teaching? It will have its ill effects. We will definitely go far away from the truth of God's word and it will not help us worship and honor God. So that is the danger and that's what he's telling the people. Now you know that there were false prophets among people, but there will also be false teachers who will secretly bring in destructive heresies. Okay, so this is again something for us to notice. He says secretly, how can this happen? You know, it is said that anyone can make the Bible say what they want by interpreting it wrongly. Now, just I'm just giving an example. Let's say there is a parent who is very rough and rude and abusive to the children. This parent might keep saying, you know, the Bible says, obey your father and mother, obey your father and mother. Is that correct? Yes, it is correct. Is it there in the Bible? It is there in the Bible. But then, you know, the Bible also says that don't provoke your children. Fathers, don't provoke your children. So there is a context. There is a balance. So there is the truth of God's word which must be applied in its wholeness, in its fullness. So if somebody just takes one verse and tries to make a doctrine out of it and ignores all the other instructions, it's out of balance. Okay, so here he says secretly bring in destructive heresies. It says secretly because in the beginning it might sound like the truth. We might listen to some teachings that it might feel so good. Yeah, no, it is there in the Bible. Yeah, the Bible says this verse, this passage. It says it is there. So you see, even for somebody who knows God's word, it might be difficult for us to identify the false teaching unless we continue to be diligent. Okay, so that is why he's saying that will be false teachers and they will secretly bring in and obviously false teachers will not teach us something that will help us partake of the divine nature of God or fulfill God's purpose. No, it will be the opposite. So he uses the term destructive heresies. Heresies are teachings that go against God. Let me just give you the exact word over here for heresies. Yeah, so heresies, the Greek word here is heresis and it means disunion or disjointed. When something doesn't connect, when something doesn't make sense, so you kind of recognize that, hey, something is wrong here. So it's a teaching that does not agree with God's word and that's what he's saying. That is the job of the false teachers. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies and which is why whenever we hear a teaching, we have to really study. You remember the Barians in the Word of God? Barians were the ones who heard the teaching of Paul but the Bible says that they went back and they searched the scriptures. So they referred and saw, hey, is it really like this in Acts 17 is where we read about the Barians? They were fair-minded believers. So the same way today, there are a lot of new teachings. You open YouTube, podcast, new new new new teachings but we have to go back to the Word and check because false teachings have this tendency secretly. It sounds very nice but bring in destructive heresies. It is disjointed. It's not connected to the Word of God though it looks like it is associated with the Word of God. Let's move on. Even denying the Lord who brought them and bring on themselves with destruction, you see, sometimes it's very clear-cut. So there might be the denying of Jesus also and we know that many cults have that feature, isn't it? They don't acknowledge that the Lord Jesus is the Son of God. They don't acknowledge that He is the Savior of the world. They don't acknowledge that we are redeemed by the finished work of the cross. They deny these core realities of scripture and Peter is warning the people. He says, see, there will be false teachers. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies and some will even deny what Jesus has done. And remember, even when we talked about Apostle John during his time, there were people who said, okay, Jesus could be God but he's not fully man. So whenever you contend with some truth about Christ, you're trying to prove that He is not the fulfillment of God's promise of sending the Savior to the world, okay? And thereby saying that the gospel is not true. So as believers, we have to be very careful. Any such teaching, you know, be alert. So that is why here chapter 2, chapter 3 is warning. Be careful and bring on themselves swift destruction. Okay, so he says that they bring destructive teaching. They also are destroyed by what they are teaching. And he says verse 2, many will follow their destructive ways because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. So unfortunate, isn't it? That there are followers of cultic teachings and so many things that are going on around us. But in all that is what? Destruction. You don't really enjoy the truth of God's word and it's what it produces. And also he says the way of truth will be blasphemed. Okay, what is that word? I'll just tell you what it is in the Greek. Basically, you see, it says spoken evil of. So even the truth of God's word will be spoken evil of because of such false teachers and their destructive teachings. Now let's move on. Verse 3, he says by covetousness, they will exploit you with deceptive words. For a long time, their judgment has not been idle and their destruction does not slumber. So he is focusing on the activity of false teachers and he says that, what do they talk? See opposite of truth is lies. Okay, deception falls in that category. So they are speaking lies. Why are they speaking lies? He says covetousness, meaning their agenda or motivation is not the equipping of God's people. Now what is the motivation of teaching? What is the motivation of teaching? Anybody? What do you get out of teaching people? God's word. What is the goal of teaching? Okay, very nice. So they were saying be mature in Christ, develop. Very good. Can we say equip God's people, strengthen, edify? All these things which are so positive. And we are becoming, when people are taught, we learn and we become more like Jesus. So that is the motivation. But you see the motivation of the false teacher, covetousness to exploit, it says so. They have an agenda. What is that agenda? It is a very selfish agenda, where they want to get what does not rightfully belong to them. Okay, but what others have? You know, it could be money, it could be privileges, it could be benefits, it could be things of pleasure. So what they want to do is they want to appear like, okay, I am teaching you this nice truth, but they are actually waiting to exploit. Can I get some kind of a benefit out of this? So that's what he's saying, by covetousness, they will exploit you with deceptive words, lies. They are speaking lies. For a long time, their judgment has been idle and their destruction does not slumber. So he's also saying that they don't have the capacity to analyze or understand. So you see, for a long time, you don't respond to the conviction of the Holy Spirit, what happens? Hardness, isn't it? Hardness of heart, no ability to perceive the voice of God. These things happen. So he's saying that the false teacher has come to a place where there is no more judgment, no correct judgment, lost the ability to understand it has been idle, their mind has been idle and their destruction does not slumber. Or if you look at their life, you will see that it's not godly, okay? And their destruction does not slumber. He's also to say that they will also face the consequences of their teaching because every teaching has a result. It has a result. Either I build up people or I lead them in the wrong path and I give them destruction. So he's saying that surely there is going to be a result which they themselves will also face. For if God did not spare the angels who sin, now this is very interesting, please pay attention. If we understand this portion, the book of Jude which is only one chapter, it's kind of a repetition of this 1st Peter chapter 2. So I mean some of the truths here will just carry on. So it'll be easy for us to touch on Jude, okay? So he says that God is a god of justice and truth he will not keep quiet when there is false teaching going on. So that's what he is trying to suggest here. So from verse 4 he says, For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, who are the angels who sinned? We'll come to that. But cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved for judgment and did not spare the ancient world but save Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemn them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly, okay? So you see three kind of scenarios. He says God did not spare the angels who sinned, that is one. Two is did not spare the ancient world during Noah's time, that is two. Three is he says, cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, that is three. So we see the judgment of God come upon disobedience. So the first category, the angels who sinned, if you recall, you know, you have this whole thing of, you know, Lucifer fell from heaven, cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness. So you see Satan and his angels, one third of the angels, right? They have been cast out of heaven and a part of those angels have already been punished as prisoners. So that is what this scripture says. They were disobedient to God. So they are in hell, delivered them into chains of darkness. So we can also call them demons. Who are they? They are nothing but fallen angels. Some of them are in hell in the prison but some of them are on the earth. They are the demons whom we cast out of people and we engage in spiritual warfare against spiritual principalities, powers of darkness and all that. So we understand who these demons are. They are basically fallen angels. Now some of them have already come under judgment and they are in hell as prisoners. Now all the demons are going to be judged and that is towards the end of the world. So that is also going to happen. Now the second one is Noah. Remember at the time of Noah we see that the world was filled with sin and God was so sad about the world. It was corrupt. It was very, very corrupt. And so God chose a family, Noah and his children and God asked him to build an ark and the world was destroyed with the flood. So what is this destroyed with the flood? God's judgment. For unrighteousness and sin which happened. Now third is Sodom and Gomorrah. If you go back to Abraham's life we noticed there that there were these cities filled with sin. Abraham tried to intercede for these cities and still because they were so sinful that God brought destruction on them. They were destroyed with fire. So in such a manner God's judgment has always come upon unrighteousness. So basically he is saying our God is a just God. He will notice the wrong and there is a punishment for the wrong. So how can these false teachers think that they can get away with false teaching? So destruction will come. Verse 7 And delivered righteous lot who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked for that righteous man dwelling among them tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds. Then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment. So just in continuation with Sodom and Gomorrah's incident lot was in Sodom and Gomorrah. And lot was the Bible says righteous. So here lot is spoken of as a righteous man. When you see sin happening around you it's upsetting, isn't it? We hear everyday news. I remember the other day we put the TV on and we were listening to news after news after news. Nothing was encouraging. War is happening. Some political fights are happening. This is happening. So it's so upsetting. When we see sin around us so you imagine lot he was in a time and in a city where people were engaging in sexual immorality. And he and his family was also vulnerable to these things. The Bible says that he was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked and that is how a righteous person should be. We should be upset. We should be angry. We should be not in a negative way that we end up using our anger in bad ways. That's not how it is. But a righteous person is upset and angry. It's a righteous anger where we think, okay God what can I do to see a change? So that is how a righteous person should be. So righteous lot he was very upset by all these things but then God delivered God delivered him and Peter is trying to say that we serve a God who is watching everything. When there is oppression he also knows how to deliver his people but he also knows how to judge the ungodly or the wicked people. That brings us so much of comfort isn't it? Sometimes we have the question that God how I think you don't care or Lord where is the justice there is so much of wickedness people are experiencing injustice in various ways but then we see that surely God will respond. He is not a God who closes his eyes and says, yeah okay no problem you can do whatever you want. So basically he is warning the believers and he is saying look be alert. We have a God who is watching he knows how to deliver the righteous but he also knows how to punish the wicked. So verse 10 and he says and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority so he is saying here that God will judge God will judge he will judge those who walk according to the flesh so what is according to the flesh you see it's enmity against God it will be opposite to what God desires so we are doing the things that the flesh desires in the lust of uncleanness you know these are all terms that describe you know wrong living wrong living wrong priorities wrong desires and things like that you know you give into fleshly desires and he is showing us that false teachers earlier he said covetous, exploit deceptive words destructive heresies now he is saying lust flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority so when you look at people who are teaching false things you will see these characteristics they are living for their own pleasure and he also adds despise authority what did he teach in this previous episode you honour, you submit to authorities not just to the kind and the kind boss but you be submissive even to the harsh boss that's what he said so now he is saying that the false teachers they don't care they will despise or dishonour authorities okay so these are the characteristics of false teachers and it says they are presumptuous okay so what is presumptuous I will tell you exactly from the Greek here yeah presumptuous so presumptuous comes from Talmetes it says daring you know it really takes a lot of self dependence and pride to interpret things however you like okay that is presumptuous we say don't be presumptuous or you carefully study and then you say what you want to say because we have the fear of God we should not say or teach something which is not there in God's word but what about a false teacher presumptuous very daring yeah I will say whatever I want to say so that is also a characteristic of a false teacher he says self-willed again fleshly they want to do what they want to do more characteristics he adds he says they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries now basically saying that they like to speak evil who are dignitaries dignitaries are the term here in Greek is doxa and doxa has to do with glory okay so glory we could understand this as heavenly beings heavenly beings or those who have the glory right that God has given them so of heavenly beings also they speak evil so such are the false teachers whereas angels who are greater in power and might do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord so he is talking about a discipline and an honor which is there in the structure of God's kingdom you see that false teachers easily they speak evil of even heavenly beings whereas heavenly beings themselves so he mentions angels angels are so powerful right there are many categories of angels there are warning angels messenger angels what else yeah so you know all kinds of angels are there when you think of such angels you know like you have a Michael fighting in the you know in fighting the Prince of Persia so they are mighty creatures but still such creatures what does it say they don't speak evil of dignitaries because there is a discipline you know if you look at the army or the navy or such organizations there is a lot of discipline you will see how they speak with one another even if they have to bring an accusation against a senior in the in the hierarchy there is a way in which they have to do it you know they can't just tell the commanding officer oh I don't like you you are wrong that's not an honorable way of doing it so there is a discipline there is an honor which is maintained in that hierarchy similarly when you look at heavenly beings they carry that honor they don't speak evil about each other but what do false teachers do they are ready to speak evil even of doxa or heavenly beings so that is all very dangerous we should not be doing such things then he adds to that you know they speak evil of dignitaries whereas angels who are greater in power and might do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the lord so things are done in an honorable way in the kingdom of god verse 12 but these meaning the false teachers like natural brute beast so basically he is kind of associate you know giving the idea that they are like wild animals can you control wild animals can you tame wild animals no when there is a wild animal that is destroying the only way that you know people try to work with such a thing is they might put one tranquilizer injection they put a tranquilizer calm it down and then okay that wild animal needs some medical treatment something they will do but before it comes back to its consciousness because when it is conscious you can't tame it and in the same way he is saying let's see false teachers are like this you can't control them they behave like wild animals made to be caught and destroyed they speak evil of the things that they do not understand so they don't have depth of understanding just random you know from the surface saying whatever they like to say and he says the quality of their life it says and will perish utterly perish in their own corruption see they are not living a righteous life they are not teaching the right things so their life will be perishing in their own corruption and people who follow what they are teaching they will also be destroyed and will receive the wages of unrighteousness okay so obviously there is consequences isn't it whether right living or wrong living so each one will reap of the consequences they will receive the wages of unrighteousness or the results of unrighteousness as those who count their pleasure to carouse in the day time so basically he says you know going for pleasure in the day time that's that's not a a mature thing to do so he says see these people don't have any self control they want their own pleasure all the time that's the way it's understood only bothered about one person who is at one person day so these are the features of a false teacher so be careful now he adds to it he adds more features to what these false teachers are like verse 13 that second part there he says they are spots and blemishes carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you so spots and blemishes is a see it's like unholy we are not it doesn't bring honour doesn't bring glory to god and they continue with their lies while they feast with you so meaning in those times they would have had gatherings and you know so the sense of community you have these people with you so the false teachers are literally a part of the community they behave like they are with you however they are very much inclined to the flesh so he says having eyes full of adultery again fleshly behaviour and that cannot cease from sin fleshly attitude enticing unstable souls so see a false teacher will also kind of have an idea these people are not strong in the word come on let me teach them so sometimes they will even look for the weak ones among the people so this is the attitude which they carry they have a hard trained and covetous practices again fleshly behaviour and our accursed children accursed children is you know they are they are not like honorable they are not honorable they have forsaken the right way and gone astray following the way of Balaam the son of what did Balaam do he was ready to prophesy for money how can you do God's work you know that God is watching so what does it tell us about Balaam no fear of God using the gift of God for personal benefit that's so dangerous isn't it so he's saying false teachers are like that teaching what the word of God but for personal benefit so please don't be like Balaam he was a false prophet or rather a prophet for benefit and in the same way you know these false teachers are for their own benefit and he reminds them you know Balaam he loved the wages of unrighteousness but he was rebuked for his equity a dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet do you remember that the donkey was the one that really stopped this prophet so he says these false teachers these are wells without water so that's very interesting see a well without water it's not useful for us isn't it we need when we think well there's got to be water in it what does water do it quenches our thirst it refreshes us it nurtures our body God's word is like that it will bring life it will bring strength it will bring refreshing but when we are listening to false teaching there is nothing there it sounds nice I have heard so many initially when I was learning about God's word I have heard many teachings and then I have wondered whether these things are true I'll just give you one simple example I don't want to bring up these matters here but then there was one particular teaching I heard where somebody was saying that a human being should only survive on you know Jesus said that man shall not live by bread alone okay but by the word of God so this person has a teaching in which he says that you should not eat food okay if you are a believer who is very spiritual you should be able to eat only communion and live and so this person also kind of shares that you know I have been living only on communion for such a long time so like when I heard that it sounded so nice it sounded very nice to me I was like wow that must be amazing to really live only on communion and food is not necessary but then when I kind of studied God's word yes that verse is there in the Bible but Bible doesn't say that you know if I'm a true believer I should only live on communion and there is some kind of a spiritual reality that I will hit you know if I practice these things so you see it's like that it's kind of subtle but it feels like it's already there in the Bible but if you follow a teaching like that imagine you know there will be so much of condemnation for people who are eating food you would think that I'm not able to be like my pastor who's only eating communion and who's only able to survive on communion and moreover does the scripture it is a one of verse you just take one verse man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God you can't make a doctrine out of a single verse isn't it you have to have many passages of scripture saying the same thing then that's a doctrine so false teachers are like that you know there is a whole lot of such things so when I where is the strength in this where is the nourishing in this how does it help me fulfill God's purpose for my life so wells without water where you feel like I'm not getting anything out of this to live for God that is false teaching so we have to be careful tempest for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever so you know we again we expect when we see clouds we are happy that wow you know it's going to rain it's going to refresh us after such a long spell of heat but clouds carried by tempest is you know when you have these destructive tsunami kind of situations where when you see the tempest clouds you're scared of it you're like oh no it's only going to pour down water in a violent way to destroy the property there so if you want to sum it up false teachers are self-willed they're living for themselves they have wrong motivation and their teaching does not edify the body of Christ okay so that is it that's the bottom line that teaching is destructive it does not edify the body of Christ and he has explained it with so much of example little more is there verse 18 he says for when they speak great swelling words of emptiness they allure through this lust of the flesh through lewdness the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error while they promise them liberty they themselves are slaves of corruption for by whom a person is overcome by him also he is brought into bondage so again it's very clear fleshly empty words they themselves have no overcoming capacity right so if there's no self-control remember earlier for maturity what did he say to your faith you add virtue to virtue you add knowledge to knowledge you add self-control to self-control so maturity looks like that but in this case the false teacher himself is not able to practice the truth of God's word so then you know there is corruption in their own personal life or in other words he uses the word bondage they are living in they are slaves of corruption you know they are living in bondage and what do they do they promise liberty to us but then their teaching only brings you know it puts us in a difficult place so verse 20 he says for if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and savior Jesus Christ they are again entangled in them and overcome the latter end is worse for them than the beginning it's like Hebrews 6 and notice he's talking about false teachers who are born again originally born again okay so are they part of the family of God yes but because they have followed this fleshly lifestyle and not been honoring of God's word what has happened to them they have fallen into error and they are also teaching error that's why Paul told Timothy take heat to the you know take heat to the doctrine so be careful be careful never forget what you learned in first standard you know if you forget what we learn first standard ABCD we can't read today we are reading you know books and all that but if you forget what we learned in first standard we can't so in the same way he's talking about those believers born again people who have lived their own ways and he says they are polluted by the world and entangled in them and you see they are the it's like what Hebrews 6 says fallen away fallen away and he's warning he's saying the latter end is worse for them than the beginning so such people will have a destructive end for it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than having known it to learn from the holy commandment delivered to them but it has happened to them according to the according to the true proverb a dog returns to its own vomit and a soul having washed to her wallowing in the Maya so basically he says that you know it's really sad that such people are they have fallen away and they know the truth but they have rejected the truth now let's quickly come to chapter 3 here so once again he comes and he says I'm here to remind you I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder so he's reminding them that you know be careful about these things that you may be mindful of the words which was spoken before by the holy prophets and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and saviour remember I told you apostles are very careful about the doctrine so he says never let go of the doctrine we have learnt till now what we have learnt don't let some new teaching come in and mess it up so we have to be careful isn't it so doctrine is so so crucial verse 3 knowing this first that scoffers will come in the last days so scoffers are you know people who laugh at the truth they laugh at the truth so he says in the last days there will be people who say where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation so he's saying you know it's like again there are people who will question the truth of God's word we keep saying that oh Jesus is coming back soon soon what soon you know so many generations have come and gone Jesus never came so he's not going to come so people who question and mock the truth of God's word such people will be there then verse 7 he says for this they will fully forget that by the word of God the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of water and in the water by which the world that then existed perished being flooded with water but the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men so he's saying see the people who make fun of the word that Christ is going to come back don't forget that it is the word of God through which the world was created it is the word of God that sustains the world and it is the word of God which is going to be fulfilled so he says that there will come a time the end of the earth where there will be judgment there will be also the destruction of the world with fire we have all done eschatology so we know the sequence of things he's not referring to the sequence here but he's just putting it in a general way and saying that what God has spoken it has come to pass it will come to pass so how you know how what a daring thing to make fun of the truth of God's word so we should never really dishonor God's word in that way okay so a little more of chapter 3 to go I'll touch on that in the next class and we will also complete Jude it's only one chapter so we'll finish that in the next class and we'll start off James and we should be able to complete your course thoroughly okay so let's pray and close now I just want to request somebody to pray Kiran can you pray yes ma'am sir we'll pray Father God we come before you through once again we want to say thank you Father God to all your questioners thank you Father God thank you Father God for your understanding and your knowledge and your recognition and all your promises Father God thank you thank you Father God for the journey Father God for what you're leading us Father God thank you thank you Father God for the subject thank you Father God for reading understanding what you did for the book of peace Father God thank you so many reviewers will say today thank you rest of the day submitting to your hand take care of everything just name paper amen amen amen thank you thank you Kiran thank you everyone God bless we'll meet again next Monday okay have a good week bye for now thank you thank you thank you bye