Wolves on the Church Porch
These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved.
~ 2 Peter 2:17
2 Peter 2 is not a polite Sunday smile. It is a hard truth from God for a world full of smooth talkers. False teachers are not hiding out in the shadows. They ride straight into the camp with polished words and a friendly grin, “secretly introducing destructive heresies” ~2 Peter 2:1. They sound like hope, but they haul poison in their saddlebags. They twist the gospel, blur the lines of sin, and sell a Jesus who never judges anything. But Scripture pulls the mask off.
Peter warns that “many will follow their destructive ways” ~2 Peter 2:2. That is the world we’re living in today. People want the blessings of God but not the obedience. They want forgiveness but not holiness. They want Jesus as a friend but not as Lord. When someone speaks the truth straight, they get told they are harsh or unloving. But the Bible says the opposite. “Faithful are the wounds of a friend” ~Proverbs 27:6. Real love tells the truth even when the truth cuts.
Peter does not soften the motives. “In their greed they will exploit you with false words” ~2 Peter 2:3. Greed isn’t just about money. Sometimes it is the hunger for likes, applause, or the feeling of being somebody. But God says that kind of craving belongs to the world, not to His people. “The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father” ~1 John 2:16.
Then God tells you what He does with rebellion. He did not spare the angels who sinned. He did not spare the ancient world when Noah preached righteousness and no one listened. He did not spare Sodom and Gomorrah but turned them to ashes ~2 Peter 2:4-6. That is God saying, You can mock Me, but you won’t outrun Me. His patience is mercy, not permission.
But there is hope for the faithful. God rescued Noah while the world drowned in corruption. He rescued Lot while wickedness burned around him. “The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations” ~2 Peter 2:9. You do not survive a lying world by being clever. You survive by holding tight to His Word. Jesus prayed, “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth” ~John 17:17.
Peter describes false teachers like wild, untamed animals. Loud voices, bold claims, no fear of God. They “despise authority” and “speak evil of things they do not understand” ~2 Peter 2:10-12. You can see it everywhere. People mock Scripture, twist it, or rewrite it to suit the culture. They talk tough, but Scripture says they are blind guides.
Their hearts are full of lust and greed. “Eyes full of adultery,” Peter says, and hearts trained in corruption ~2 Peter 2:14. They promise freedom while being slaves themselves ~2 Peter 2:19. That is the great lie of sin. It brags about liberty but drags a chain behind it. Jesus said, “Whoever commits sin is the servant of sin” ~John 8:34.
Peter ends with a gut punch. These teachers heard the truth once, but walked away from it. “The dog is turned to his own vomit again” ~2 Peter 2:22. That is Scripture talking straight. Rejecting God’s truth does not open your mind. It darkens it. It does not make you enlightened. It makes you enslaved.
So what do we do?
We stay anchored. The world shifts like desert sand, but the Word does not move. “Test all things; hold fast to what is good” ~1 Thessalonians 5:21.
We stay awake. Wolves do not disappear because we want peace. Jesus said, “Beware of false prophets” ~Matthew 7:15.
We stay faithful. No matter how loud the world gets, God keeps His people. “He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved” ~Matthew 24:13.
This is what the Bible is about. Not polished religion. Not soft-edged Christianity. This is country honesty for the soul. Scripture in one hand. A clear conscience in the other. Eyes open. Heart steady. Christ first.
Hold the line. Don’t let anyone steal the gospel Jesus bled to give you.
Springs Without Water
This song is a raw gritty gospel warning drawn straight from 2 Peter 2. The song calls out false teachers the same way Scripture does, not with soft words but with truth that hits like a hammer. It paints them as empty wells and storm clouds with no rain, promising freedom while living as slaves of corruption. The grit comes from Scripture itself, reminding us that God knows how to rescue the godly and keep the wicked for the day of judgment. This track sounds like a thunderstorm rolling across a barren plain, pointing people back to Christ and away from the lies that lead to destruction.
Daniel 5:1-31
2 Peter 2:1-22
Psalm 119:113-128
Proverbs 28:19-20
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New Testament: 2 Peter 2:1-22
Summary: False Prophets and Teachers
But false prophets also appeared among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. Many will follow their indecent behavior, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, held for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example of what is coming for the ungodly; and if He rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the perverted conduct of unscrupulous people (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds), then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from a trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt passion, and despise authority. Reckless, self-centered, they speak abusively of angelic majesties without trembling, whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a demeaning judgment against them before the Lord. But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, using abusive speech where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed, suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions as they feast with you, having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having hearts trained in greed, accursed children; abandoning the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness; but he received a rebuke for his own offense, for a mute donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the insanity of the prophet. These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved. For, while speaking out arrogant words of no value they entice by fleshly desires, by indecent behavior, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error, promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what anyone is overcome, by this he is enslaved. For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them. It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “A DOG RETURNS TO ITS OWN VOMIT,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.” ~ 2 Peter 2:1-22
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