1 BUT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, [And how will we know them? vs 1 They will deny Christ. vs 2 They will make truth appear as evil. vs 3 They will exploit people with cunning arguments. vs 10 They will be “self-willed,” that is, obstinate in doing whatever they want, without regard for others 2 Peter, chapter 2: vs 12 They will have little knowledge of the things of righteousness which they defy. vs 13 They will sin openly, publicly, willfully. vs 14 They will be motivated by lust and greed. vs 14 They will prey upon those who are unstable and unseasoned. vs 18 They will present their cause with polished rhetoric and oratory. vs 19 They will promise to liberate those who sympathize with and follow after them.] who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, [ Who are these angels that sinned? Could they be the watchers? ] but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, [ Now for a member of the church this does not sound strange "Chains of Hell", however; if you look through the bible to this point I don't think there is a single reference to the spiritual chains of hell or their evil until here except for one reference in Jude 1:6 where it happens to reference Enoch. However the Book of Mormon makes a few references to the chains of hell in (2 Ne. 1:13, 9:45, 28:19; Alma 5:7,9-19, 12:6, 12:11, 12:17, 13:30,36:18) So this teaching is somewhat unique to the LDS reader and comes again from the writings of Enoch which we see in Moses 7:26,75. The Book Of Giants "You shall not ascend into heaven unto all eternity, and in the bonds of the earth the decree has gone forth to bind you..."(1 Enoch 14:1) Do the chains of darkness refer to the sons of perdition - outer darkness. If so these angels spoken of here would have needed to do something pretty bad, which according to the Book of Enoch the watchers did. Coming to earth and taking up with the daughters of this earth. Those bound by the power of Satan because they have hardened their hearts, they are given a lesser part of the word, which causes them to harden their hearts even more - receiving even less... see Alma 12:11 ] to be reserved unto judgment;

5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

6 And turning the cities of sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time.[ What Was the Meaning of the Word Riot? Actually there is no word in English that carries the exact meaning of the Greek word truphay. The actual meaning is “to live delicately, live luxuriously, be given to a soft and luxurious life.” (See Thayer, Lexicon of the New Testament, p. 631.) The picture is not one of wild rebellion and disorder, but of soft, selfindulgent pampering of the desires of the flesh. ] Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

17 These are wells without water, [ Dried up - with none of the precious resource that provides life. ] clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, [ Immorality. ] those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. [ Those who commit the unpardonable sin. “It is important for all men that they do not even approach the tragic point of the unpardonable sin. Numerous people have lost the Spirit through immorality and through rebellion brought about by the sophistry and philosophy of men, and sometimes through fancied offenses. Bitterness has a way of poisoning the mind and killing the spirit. One should 424 take no chances of permitting such situations to become sore and gangrenous, for who can tell when one might slip across the line? To do so rather than enduring to the end is perhaps to be in the category Peter described.” (Kimball, Miracle of Forgiveness, pp. 121–22.) ]

22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.