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Deliverance Near for People of Godly Devotion!The Watchtower—1990 | April 15
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Take note of the context of that statement, at 2 Peter 2:4-10:
3 “Certainly if God did not hold back from punishing the angels that sinned, but, by throwing them into Tartarus, delivered them to pits of dense darkness to be reserved for judgment; and he did not hold back from punishing an ancient world, but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness, safe with seven others when he brought a deluge upon a world of ungodly people;
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Deliverance Near for People of Godly Devotion!The Watchtower—1990 | April 15
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Genesis 6:11 reports that “the earth became filled with violence.”
5. (a) What attitude on the part of humans contributed to the violence of Noah’s day? (b) What had Enoch warned regarding ungodliness?
5 What was behind it? The scripture quoted from 2 Peter refers to ungodly people. Yes, a spirit of ungodliness pervaded human affairs. This involved not merely a general disregard for divine law but a defiant attitude toward God himself.a And when men are defiant toward God, how can it be expected that they will deal kindly with their fellowman? Already before Noah was born, this ungodliness was so rampant that Jehovah had caused Enoch to prophesy regarding the outcome. (Jude 14, 15) Their defiance of God was certain to bring an execution of divine judgment.
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Deliverance Near for People of Godly Devotion!The Watchtower—1990 | April 15
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a “Anomia is disregard for, or defiance of, God’s laws; asebeia [noun form of the word rendered ‘ungodly people’] is the same attitude toward God’s Person.”—Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, Volume 4, page 170.
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