They are "useless and untrustworthy. They are without fear. These are "Christians" who reject the truth; they are pastors of the serpent. The point of knowing what to look for is not to go heretic-hunting. Plenty of food shared together in a climate of fervent brotherly love was customary in the religious life of the early Christians to whom Jude was writing. Jude verse 4 tells us that, "certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Andreas, commenting on the false teachers killing themselves a second time, writes: These are people who by their wicked life and ungodliness have killed their souls with false doctrines. False teachers are like those clouds, Jude says. Those who are warned about are blasphemers. The same is true of these false teachers.
The five metaphors of the epistle of Jude, which were selected by the Holy Spirit, had the effect of opening the eyes of the first century Christians and of exposing heretical infiltration into the church. We do not know the details of this rebellion, only that it happened and the results. Jude reemphasizes the point that these false teachers are spiritually dead, and unregenerate therefore reaffirming these men are unbelievers. The second death has no power over them" (Rev. Enoch's removal from the earth before the flood is a picture of a future removal of God's people from the earth prior to death. After the Lord had rescued them from Egypt, they insisted that where they were in captivity was somehow better than God's provision. Rather, all they understand is what they may draw from their natural instincts and these sensual motives will ultimately destroy them and lead to their ruin. Here is our first Similitude. Those who believe this are no longer condemned, they are justified before God because they are covered in the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jude 1:10 But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed. After Jude announces this woe, he proceeds to explain the motivation of these men. They serve only to block out the light as waterless clouds. Next Jude says that these false teachers are like the angels who did not stay where they belonged and exchanged what was their proper abode for what was not and now they are kept in eternal bonds under darkness until the judgment on that great day. It is here that Jude likens their powers of reasoning to that of brute beasts.
20:6) and Jesus said that those who believe in him have already "crossed over from death to life" (John 5:24). Korah is challenging the very leadership that God has established. 11-The error of Balaam. Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. 14 Defile the flesh: "Apparently the false teachers had based their immoral behavior upon visions or dreams they claimed to have received.
There are two ways we may understand Jude's opening pronouncement, "Woe to them": Is Jude personally condemning the false teachers or is he expressing his personal sorrow over them? Virtually every book of the New Testament has a severe warning against false teachers. What is mind blowing about the text regarding Balaam is how God can use the wickedness of men and still prove His point! They are barren and yield nothing. The word "hidden reefs" in Greek is spilas.
This approach to Scripture is unique to our brotherhood and is one of the important ways that we are different from our neighbors in other religious groups. True disciples are described by five activities. 'Without the slightest qualm' (lit., 'without fear') means that the false teachers do not recognize the terror of the Lord against those who mock his Son's death shown in the Supper (cf. But if Jude is uttering a personal pronouncement of condemnation upon these false teachers, then this would fly in the face of his prior illustration of Michael keeping his place in verse 9. Indeed they have incurred even greater culpability by flouting that gospel after having once known it, and thus they have rejected the only source of salvation. The text tells us that because of Korah's rebellion these men, their households and goods would be swallowed by the earth. The Epistle of Jude is a general letter written to the whole church and is to be corporately observed. Christ's bodily resurrection entailed two subsequent resurrections for all Christian believers.
In the end, judgement belongs to the Lord. Their false teaching is leading people astray from the true faith. Hopefully, since last Sunday you have all taken the chance to read the book. Enoch's prophecies were handed down verbally and then in written form so that the Jews in the 1st century had access to them in some way. Check out what the text says. Jude tells us that the false teachers sit selfishly among us without fear, feeding only themselves (lit., "shepherding themselves"). He is not uttering a personal condemnation toward the false teachers, but is in fact, expressing his personal grief toward the false teachers spiritual blindness that is leading them and their followers to their eternal destruction in the coming judgment. Nevertheless, it cannot be overlooked that Jude's illustrations and descriptions can also apply to individual believers serving as a check for personal motives, ambitions and goals in our service toward the body of Christ. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. " He makes the effort to mention they do so "without fear, caring only for themselves". Kim Riddlebarger, A Case for Amillennialism, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2003. In other words, Paul tells them, "Pay attention! 25 Dr. Hillyer offers the additional observation that, "Jude may [also] be implying that the false teachers in his sights are Cain's spiritual descendants and nothing better than the destroyers of souls. Review the descriptions of these activities in doctrinal / teaching point #2.
The result of their feverish churning is to cast upon the shore the foam of their shame. Raging Waves of the Sea. More contemporary commentaries say essentially the same: "Yet in spite of Michael's power and dignity, he dared not bring a 'slanderous accusation' against the devil but referred the dispute to the sovereignty of God. Wandering stars in the Greek is the word planētēs. In this context we are introduced to a man named Enoch who is the seventh generation from Adam. It could be that the Lord led Moses to these writings to learn the story that would eventually lead to the documentation and preservation of the Torah.
10-The wicked reason as beasts. If you try to follow a meteor to where it burns out, what is left? Taught byWesley Livingston. Sub-points added by author. Students also viewed. He first mentions that they have "gone the way of Cain", in our 6th triad.
ESVThese are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; NIVThese people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm--shepherds who feed only themselves. And we see a similar instance of announcing judgment in the use of the word "woe" in Revelation 18:10. Listen to Paul's words in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? "12 It is likely that Hillyer was correct when he stated, "Jude is therefore referring to men who falsely claim to have visionary revelations to justify their teaching and actions. In holy justice God has appointed fire and brimstone for Sodom (Gen 19), a hungry fissure for Korah (Num 16), and "the blackness of darkness for ever" for these blind guides. We do not see, within the scriptures, Enoch prophesying anything.
It mentions that Enoch prophesied that "the Lord was accompanied by thousands of His Holy ones to execute judgement on all the ungodly. Loud Boasters: They boast of themselves because they have no confidence that their teachings are of God and so they promote themselves to their shame. Their end will be different than the destiny of others, they are kept aside for heaven. Here Jude interprets "Behold, the Lord cometh with many thousands of His holy ones, " as applying to the as yet future second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in power. Looking at the OT examples in particular, these are men and women who would speak as though God had given them revelation. Just as the northern star is the point from where sailors fix their course, Jesus is the star that can direct our course to heaven. Here's what the text informs us regarding the matter, Genesis 4:4-7. Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? With this in mind we must remember what we do know about scripture according to 2 Timothy 3:16. Some think their "sin" is connected to angels taking wives referred to in Genesis 6. Jude may have had Isaiah 57:20 in mind ("But the wicked are like the tossing sea, For it cannot be quiet, And its waters toss up refuse and mud") when he wrote this metaphor. Jude predicates his whole argument not upon his blood-relationship with Jesus, but upon the faith that has been received.
Korah rebelled against Moses and Aaron and said that they had no more authority than anyone else and God opened the earth and swallowed Korah and his family and all that belonged to him and closed the earth back over them, showing that when God puts someone in the position of authority we need to listen to them and follow them.