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== 2 Peter 2 ==

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| '''Comments  2 Peter 2''' ''Despise not Dominion''
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| In verse 10 we see a warning about despising government. The Greek word ''kuriotes'' does not actually mean "[[government]]" but ''"dominion"''.<Ref>{{2963}}</Ref>
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| Man was granted dominion by God in [[Genesis 1]]:26. That dominion includes our God-given rights to choose to act in a righteous fashion. But many  men choose to give up their natural rights and grant that God given ''dominion'' to other men in exchange for something like Esau in [[Genesis 25]]:34<Ref>[[Genesis 25]]:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised [his] birthright.</Ref> who sold his God given birth right for ''"bread and pottage of lentiles"'' because he "despised" it.
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| God ''Hates'' this disregard for the [[rights]] and responsibilities He bestows on man. This is also the error of [[Balaam]] and the deeds of the [[Nicolaitan]].
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| What does it mean to '''"speak evil of [[1391|dignities]]"'''? God did not put most rulers into power over you. You and others before you have done that by [[covet]]ing [[benefits]] offered by men ''who [[exercise authority]] one over the other'' as Peter said you would.
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| We are not [[seek]]ing righteousness while we are giving other men the [[Romans 13|"power to choose"]] for us what is ''good and evil''. This is what man does when the [[Voice]] of the people reject God and elect rulers like Israel did in [[1 Samuel 8]] gives power to men in government.
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| To "grant dominion to other men" who call themselves '''[[Benefactors]]''' but who ''[[exercise authority]] one over another'' is the opposite of what Christ told us. To use any government to take from your neighbor to obtain [[benefits]], social security or [[welfare]] is the essence of '''[[Covetous Practices]]''' that [[curse children]] which is the theme of this chapter.
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| Is the '''[http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/covenants/ccc4.php Constitution biblical?]'''
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| While you may have to '''[[pay tribute]]''' you do not have to seek the  '''[[Wages of unrighteousness‎]]'''.
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| This entire chapter is about doing what is [[righteous]]. Taking from your neighbor through the agency of government is not righteous. It is [[Proverbs 23|sitting at the table of rulers]] and an [[appetite]] for the desire of their [[benefits|dainties and benefits]] is not only [[idolatry]] but a '''"[[fellowship]]"''' and '''"[[communion]]"''' with unbelievers that will [[yoke]]<Ref>[[2 Corinthians 6]]:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what [[fellowship]] hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?</Ref> you as [[merchandise]] and  [[Curse children|curse your children]]. 
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| [[Polybius]] and [[John the Baptist]] warned us as wells [[Peter Paul James and John|Peter, Paul, James and John]].
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| No one can seek or apply to these '''''[[Fathers]]''' of the earth'' for their [[benefits]] and still be able to say they are practicing [[Pure Religion]].
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|  In verse 13 we see Peter say that there are "spots"<Ref name="Spotsq">{{Spotsq}}</Ref> from the Greek ''spilos''<Ref name=spot>{{4696}} </Ref> Our care of the needy of society as Christians must be "unspotted"<Ref name="Spotsq">{{Spotsq}}</Ref> to be '''[[Pure Religion]]'''.
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| People want government to pass laws to make them ave and secure but [[Tacitus]] knew 2000 years ago that "The more  laws, the more corrupt the state."  
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| We should be attending to the '''[[weightier matters]]''' Christ rebuked the [[Pharisees]] for neglecting but not by the '''''[[voice]]''' of the people'' electing more rulers. 
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| We need to [[repent]] and seek the [[Kingdom of God]] and his [[righteousness]] by [[Why Congregate|coming together]] according to the [[perfect law of liberty]] in [[free assemblies]] desiring to serve rather than merely be served.
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2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you<Ref name="falsechrist">{{falsechrist}}</Ref>, who privily shall bring in [[Damnable heresies|damnable heresies]], even denying the Lord<Ref> 1203 ~δεσπότης~ despotes \@des-pot’-ace\@ perhaps from 1210 and posis (a husband); n m  AV-Lord 5, master 5; 10 1) a master, Lord</Ref> that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow<Ref name="mandeceived">{{mandeceived}}</Ref><Ref name="falsechrist">{{falsechrist}}</Ref> their pernicious<Ref name="pernicway">{{pernicway}}</Ref> ways; by reason of whom [[The Way|the way of truth]] shall be evil spoken of.

=== Be not Merchandise ===


2:3 And through [[covet]]ousness<Ref name="covetnot">{{covetnot}}</Ref> shall they with [[Sophistry|feigned words]] make [[merchandise]] of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old [[world]], but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of [[righteousness]], bringing in the [[Genesis 6|flood upon the world of the ungodly]]; 6 And turning the cities of [[Sin of Sodom|Sodom and Gomorrha]] into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the [[Wantonness|filthy]] conversation<Ref name=anastrophe> {{391}} </Ref> of the wicked: 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous [[soul]] from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

=== Despise not Dominion ===

10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the [[lust]] of uncleanness, and despise [[government]]. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of [[1391|dignities]]. 11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. 12 But these, as natural [[Biting one another|brute beasts]], made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 

=== Curse not Children ===

13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness,<Ref name="unright">{{unright}}</Ref> as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots<Ref name=spot></Ref><Ref name="Spotsq">{{Spotsq}}</Ref> they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14 Having eyes full of [[adultery]], and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with [[Covetous Practices|covetous practices]]<Ref name="covetnot">{{covetnot}}</Ref>; [[Curse children|cursed children]]: 15 Which have forsaken the [[The Way|right way]], and are gone astray, following the way of [[Balaam]]<Ref name="Errorbn">{{Errorbn}}</Ref> [the son] of Bosor, who loved the [[Benefits|wages of unrighteousness]]<Ref name="unright">{{unright}}</Ref>; 16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the [[Divers lusts|lusts of the flesh]], through much [[wantonness]], those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

=== Be not Entangled Again ===

19 While they promise them [[Perfect law of liberty|liberty]], they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in [[bondage]]. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions<Ref> [[3393]] ~μίασμα~ miasma \@mee’-as-mah\@ from 3392 ("miasma");  n n AV-pollution 1; 1 1) that which defiles, defilement 2) metaph., vices the foulness of which contaminates one in his intercourse with the ungodly mass of mankind</Ref> of the [[world]] through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled <Ref>[[Galatians 4]]:3  Even so we, when we were children, were in [[bondage]] under the [[Elements]] of the [[World]].  
: [[Galatians 5]]:1  Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the [[yoke of bondage]]. 
: [[Matthew 11]]:30 "For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light."</Ref>therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known<Ref name="lacknow">{{lacknow}}</Ref> the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb<Ref>[[Proverbs 26]]:11 ¶ As a dog returneth to his vomit, [so] a fool returneth to his folly.</Ref> The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in [[The mire|the mire]].