Because June is “Pride Month,” which was set aside to support the gay and lesbian lifestyle and all iterations of that deception, it is essential to know to whom biblical correction was addressed. Peter issued his warning to those living in the New Covenant. His warning was to those who once knew the Lord but abandoned the truth to accept a lie.

Peter called the Church to be on guard against the false prophets and teachers who infiltrated their assembly and condoned such a lifestyle. He was referring to those in the Church who tell us God has changed His view on sexual sin. Peter issued a warning against those who “cleverly teach destructive heresies” (vs. 2).

As evil increased during the time of Noah, God pushed the restart button, and the flood came. The Lord promised He would never again destroy the world with a flood. The Lord offered a true interpretation of the rainbow. His promise was not offered as a license to sin.

Peter wrote, “God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and turned them into heaps of ashes. He made them an example of what will happen to ungodly people. But God also rescued Lot out of Sodom because he was a righteous man who was sick of the shameful immorality of the wicked people around him” (vs. 6-7).

This correction is not a popular concept for those in the Church today who have believed a lie about human sexuality. Sodom and Gomorrah were not God’s punishment against inhospitality; it was an offense to the Lord’s original design, and as a result, “He is especially hard on those who follow their own twisted sexual desire, and who despise authority” (vs. 10).

Peter defined the false teachers who were in the Church in his day and now exist in our current expression of the Church, “These false teachers are like unthinking animals, creatures of instinct” (vs. 12). In other words, they have lost their spiritual minds. “Their destruction is their reward for the harm they have done. They love to indulge in evil pleasures in broad daylight. They are a disgrace and a stain among you. They delight in deception even as they eat with you in your fellowship meals” (vs. 13).

Giving themselves over to such deception has resulted in boasting in the false teaching they present, “They brag about themselves with empty, foolish boasting. With an appeal to twisted sexual desires, they lure back into sin those who have barely escaped from a lifestyle of deception They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves of sin and corruption. For you are a slave to whatever controls you” (vs. 18-19).

For those in the Church who claim to love God but teach such lies, offering deceptive reinterpretations of what is true and luring believers to accept their teaching, something worse happens to those who embrace their teaching.

“When people escape from the wickedness of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then get tangled up and enslaved by sin again, they are worse off than before. It would be better if they had never known the way to righteousness than to know it and then reject the command they were given to live a holy life. They prove the truth of this proverb: ‘A dog returns to its vomit.’ And another says, ‘A washed pig returns to the mud’” (vs. 20-22).