Judgment awaiting false teachers.

The Lord saved Israel from Egypt but destroyed those who did not believe.

The angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own habitation, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment.

Sodom and Gomorrah, having given themselves over to sexual immorality, suffered the vengeance of eternal fire.

Characteristics of false teachers.

• Dreamers who defile the flesh, reject authority and speak evil of dignitaries.
• They corrupt themselves.
• They go after the way of Cain.
• They run greedilty in the error of Balaam for profit.
• They perish in the rebellion of Korah.
• They serve only themselves.
  

Figures of speech depicting false teachers.

They are:

• Spots in your love feasts
• Clouds without water.  (Prov 25:14-‘False boasting about giving; Acts 5:3-A&S)
• Late autumn trees without fruit
• Twice dead, pulled up by the roots.
• Raging waves of the sea foaming up their own shame
• Wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
  

Descriptions of false teachers.

• Murmerers, complainers
• Mockers who walk according to their own lusts
• Mouth great swelling words
• Flattering people to gain advantage
• Sensual persons who cause divisions
• Not having the Spirit
• Ungodly
• Speaking harsh things against the Lord
  

Prophecy against false teachers.=

Henoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied:  Behold the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

Defense against false teachers.

(Spiritual reinforcement.)

• Remember the words spoken by the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ
• Build yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit
• Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord unto eternal life.
• On some of these false teachers have compassion, making a distinction, but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.
  

How to escape the trap of false teachers.

He is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you faultless before His glory with exceeding joy