The Evil From Within
2 Peter 2:1–3 (ESV) But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. False teaching IN the body is as old as the church. Peter turns from compelling believers to trust in the written words of Prophecy to warning them against "new" and false prophecies from within their ranks ("among the people .. among you"). This has been the reality of the movement of God from the beginning. Wherever there is a Moses, there is a Korah. Where you have a David, there is an Absolom. In the early times after the New Testament, a he...