Teachers - True and False

Peter's Chiasm
A: Apostolic Teaching and Testimony
B: The Old Testament Prophets
B: The Old Testament False Prophets
A: New Testament False Teachers

Example of a chiasm
Home is where the great are small and the small are great.
A: great
B: small
B: small
A: great

I. The Eyewitness testimony of the Apostles 1:16-18

II. The More Sure Word of Prophecy 1:19-21

III. The OT False Prophets 2:1a

Jude 3-4, 11
	Cain
	Balaam -- Numbers 22-24 & 31:8, 16
	Korah – Number 16

IV. The NT False Teachers 2:1b-3

Denying the Lord who bought them.
a. Lord = despotes

b. bought = agorazo
I Cor. 6:20; 7:23; Rev. 5:9, 14:3, 4

The false teachers in the church are like the false prophets of OT days. They are a mixed multitude in the midst of the true people of God.

Final Applications