Posted on 01/19/2019 7:41:49 PM PST by Faith Presses On
1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Take the condition and embrace the answer. The Way. Jesus.
Amen. Thanks for posting that Book. It does indeed have a great deal to say to this generation.
Clearly one of the most powerful books in the NT with its citation of Enoch.
Every time I hear the Sons of Seth/Daughters of Cain argument, I think of Jude 1 and remember how so much of the entire Biblical narrative has been directed to a side rail by Jewish interpreters of ancient Lore and my well meaning Christian apologists who just can't bring themselves to grasp the importance of Genesis 6, Jude 1, and Ephesians 6:12 ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places...").
I.m praying for a reprieve that includes a nationwide revival otherwise it’s going to get real ugly. I caught a couple of minutes of a tv comedy. The guy is known for his temper. He said even God gets angry. Thing is, when God was telling Abraham of the promised land, He said it wouldn’t be for at least 400 years because the sin of the Amorite was not yet complete. God’s timeline is just.
The sin of the Amorite was child sacrifice and even knowing of the power of the God of the Israelites they still wanted the temporal rewards and were willing to do the abominable to get it.
All who voice the right to shed the blood of the innocent have done the same. It’s always been a spiritual war. Gear up!
"...I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day"
"And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you."
(Jude :24,2 Timothy 1:12,Isaiah 46:4)
I am undone,thankyou Lord Jesus!
Amen!
You’re welcome, and yes it does. Amen.
I don’t think I’m very familiar with what you’re talking about. I’ll have to look into it more sometime.
Amen. I don’t know if anything sort of God bringing some monumental natural disaster could bring back our nation now. The modern world as it is today gives people false confidence and makes them prideful so so many don’t see their need for God. It’s folly to them. To me this modern world seems like the “strong delusion” mentioned in 2 Thessalonians.
Amen!
Verse 10 defines today’s liberals perfectly.
Interesting, Jude brings up Enoch for very simular reasons to the why we bring up Jude.
Some things never change.
We have a condition that only God can remedy....and so he did.
One's understanding that the Sons of God in Gen 6 are angels ("Bene Elohim" or, in Hebrew, בני האלהים was used exclusive by the writers of the OT to mean angels) introduces the stratagem of Satan to pollute the bloodline of man and thereby preclude God's plan to introduce Jesus as a human product of a man and a woman.
That's the reason for the Flood and the selection of Noah (Noah's being still genetically unpolluted).
Anyway, you are probably already aware of all this, but, in case you aren't, it is one of the most exciting controversies in the Bible today.
I don't think there is much controversy over whether or not the Book of Enoch is or ought to be included in the canon, but there is a massive amount of controversy over whether or not it ought to be studied as authoritative ancient Hebrew Lore that sheds light over the truth about Fallen Angels.
This is what the Book of Jude does. It reminds the readers of the New Testament about the Book of Enoch (and quotes the Book of Enoch about the Fallen Angels) as a preface for the next and most mysterious Book of the New Testament...the Apocalypse of John (Book of Revelation).
Very exciting stuff.
When I first read Enoch a lot of it gave me the impression of being written by someone with a fairly modern take on prophecy trying to make it sound like Old Testement writing...if that makes any sense.
It sounds new, but is very, very old.
trying to make it sound like Old Testement writing
How do you explain the fact that fragments of the Book of Enoch were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Qumran Cave 4 yielded fragments of 11 Aramaic manuscripts of parts of 1 Enoch that cover perhaps one fifth of the Ethiopic text, as well as nine Aramaic manuscripts of “the Book of the Giants,” a text not included in 1 Enoch.1 The 1 Enoch manuscripts attest both to how closely the Ethiopic text corresponds to its Aramaic prototypes in some places and to where it differs in others.There used to be a translation of the Enoch fragments online as well as those of others like the Book of Giants. I can't seem to find them at the moment. I may have them in some old books on the Scrolls in my library, but frankly there are better chances of finding another scroll cave than finding anything in my library.;-)The Giants fragments indicate that the Enochic tradition was richer than 1 Enoch suggests. Missing at Qumran are fragments of the Book of Parables (1 Enoch 37–71), a Jewish text that provides a context for New Testament “Son of Man” christology.
The absence of the Book of Parables from Qumran probably indicates that this expression of Enochic theology developed in circles different from those directly ancestral to the group that collected the texts at Qumran. The other Enochic writings were authoritative at Qumran, however, and were popular among early Christian writers as well. The Enochic texts remain a canonical part of the Bible of the Ethiopian Church.
—George W.E. Nickelsburg, The University of Iowa
Source: biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/dead-sea-scrolls
As you may know (and as an aside), it was the frequent mention of the "Son of Man" in Enoch (and its reference to Christ) that also used to give Jewish scholars fits. That's one of the reasons, if not their main reason, for their strong dislike for the Book of Enoch.
Yes it really describes the spirit of this age in places like the West where so many people have turned from the knowledge of God.
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