“The Lord knows how to deliver the godly...and to reserve the unjust” (2 Peter 2:9).
1. Delivered:
Noah, from the judgment of the flood (2:5).
Lot, from the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah (2:6).
All believers:
John 3:36, “He who believes in the Son has everlasting life”
John 5: 24, “Most assuredly I say to you, ‘he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall notcome into judgment, but has passed from death to life”.
Romans 8:1, “There is therefore now no condemnation (judgment) tothem who are in Christ Jesus”.
Hebrews 2:9,14-15, “that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.....and deliver those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage”.
2. Reserved:
2 Peter 2:9, “The Lord knows how....to reserve under punishment for the day of punishment”.
John 3:36, “he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him”.
Revelation 21:27, “There shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or that causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of life”.
Revelation 22:16-17, “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you these things....and let him who thirsts come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely”.