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II Peter 2:4-10
Excerpted from: Righteous Lot?We will stop there for a minute. So we read here that our holy God cannot tolerate sin. He is a righteous judge. Psalm 11:7 and 146:8 declare, "For the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness"; "The Lord loves the righteous." We could add Psalm 5:12, "For you, O Lord, will bless the righteous." or Psalm 34:15 (we actually see this repeated in I Peter 3), "The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry."
In II Peter 2:5, God saved only Noah, the preacher of righteousness, and his family from the Flood. And we see the Greek noun here, it is Strong's 1343. It is a bit of a doozy. dikaiosuné, translated righteousness all 92 times in the New King James. It is from an underlying adjective that means righteous. It is the underlying adjective version is Strong's 1342. dikaios, meaning righteous, upright, just, innocent, thoughtless, and guiltless. And we see these same words used in Revelation 15:3; 16:5 and 7; and 19:2 to describe our very great God: "Just and true are Your ways"; "You are righteous, O Lord. . . . True and righteous are Your judgments"; "For true and righteous are His judgments" those scriptures read.
Now, despite some of the most disturbing scriptures in Genesis 19, we read here in II Peter 2:7 that God delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked. And again, we see the underlying Greek adjective form for righteous here, Strong's 1342 dikaios is used twice. It is used twice to describe Lot. The same word in Revelation describing God as righteous is used to describe Lot. I found that troublesome at first, I have got to tell you.
Lot was actually oppressed and afflicted with the evil that surrounded him we read here. He was a righteous man, verse 8 tells us, dwelling among the evil. He was actually tormented daily by their lawless deeds, and the use of the word torment here should bring a significant description on Lot's pain. It is the same word we see in Revelation 9:5 and 14:10. I will read those. Same word here for torment.
In this section on God's righteous judgment, we learn only the righteous Judge knows how to deliver His people from sin. It is not something we can do for each other. God will bring His righteous judgment and punishment on the unjust in His due time, and His judgment will be especially hard, brethren, on any that despise or reject or despise in any way, authority. "No pride, no problem." Judgment is coming on anyone that speaks evil of those in charge.
II Peter 2:6-9
Excerpted from: Faith (Part Three)Here is what is so interesting. Lot is three times in that section called righteous and one time he is called godly, and yet when we look back at the story that is written beginning in Genesis 11 and going all the way through Genesis 19, everything that is written about that man is negative. It is not good. It is not put in a good light at all, and yet he is called "righteous" and "godly."
I think that it is even more shocking to consider what I think is Peter's very obvious inference that he was righteous while all these bad, evil, wicked things were going on in Sodom. From that we can then conclude that he did not become righteous by and through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ after the shock of events that occurred with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, but that he was deemed righteous by God before them and through the event. That righteous man, it says, was troubled with what was going on within the city. Therefore, Lot was not what we consider a bad man. He was not an evil man. He was not a wicked man. He was what we would consider to be a converted man. He had received the grace of God, and by the grace of God, righteousness was imputed to him, even as it is to you and me.
It says that he was tormented by the things that he saw in Sodom and Gomorrah. What does that mean? That means that he clearly understood about sin. It does not seem as though the Sodomites were concerned at all, but Lot was. He understood sin. He understood that these people were off the mark. Though he was not wicked, he did nothing to remove himself from it. There is the problem. He lingered. See, he was willing to coexist with it.
II Peter 2:6-9
Excerpted from: A Place of Safety? (Part 2)Does that not indicate to you a separation? The godly are delivered from the trial that might indeed cause them a great deal of harm—maybe even take their lives—but they are separated away from those who are set for judgment.
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