Jude 1, Part II
Jude is invoking the same NT prophecy from Jeremiah that Jesus and the Apostles invoke: that God's chosen people are all taught by God directly, that is, the Holy Spirit has converted each and every single one of them. It does not rely on the mediatorial role of priests or neighbors as in the Old Testament. In the words of Jesus, "It is written in the Prophets: they shall all be taught by God. Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me." John 6:45. In the words of John. "I write these things not because you don't know the truth but because you do know it." 1 John 2:21.
"That Jesus, having once saved a people from the land of Egypt..."
There is a textual variant here. Some manuscripts say 'Lord' but some of the earlier manuscripts say 'Jesus' and the latest Biblical scholarship is reflecting that in the newer translations and updates of the older translations. Jesus saved the Hebrews from Egypt in the Exodus, He is the Lord.
"Subsequently destroyed those who did not believe."
After the Hebrews left Egypt, they began to grumble against God, rebelled against Moses, and were characterized by a spirit of ingratitude and unbelief. The ground opened up and some of them went down to Hell alive, fiery serpents bit them, and that first generation was forbidden to enter the Promised Land, left to die in that desert wilderness. The power of God's Law was active then and it's still active now, hence Jude's warning.
"Though you know all things"
Jude is invoking the same NT prophecy from Jeremiah that Jesus and the Apostles invoke: that God's chosen people are all taught by God directly, that is, the Holy Spirit has converted each and every single one of them. It does not rely on the mediatorial role of priests or neighbors as in the Old Testament. In the words of Jesus, "It is written in the Prophets: they shall all be taught by God. Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me." John 6:45. In the words of John. "I write these things not because you don't know the truth but because you do know it." 1 John 2:21.
"That Jesus, having once saved a people from the land of Egypt..."
There is a textual variant here. Some manuscripts say 'Lord' but some of the earlier manuscripts say 'Jesus' and the latest Biblical scholarship is reflecting that in the newer translations and updates of the older translations. Jesus saved the Hebrews from Egypt in the Exodus, He is the Lord.
"Subsequently destroyed those who did not believe."
After the Hebrews left Egypt, they began to grumble against God, rebelled against Moses, and were characterized by a spirit of ingratitude and unbelief. The ground opened up and some of them went down to Hell alive, fiery serpents bit them, and that first generation was forbidden to enter the Promised Land, left to die in that desert wilderness. The power of God's Law was active then and it's still active now, hence Jude's warning.
Read Jude verse 6 along with Genesis 6. The fallen angels who came down and had relations with human women, spawning the giants and their demonic spirits, were locked in "Prison" to await their final judgment on the last day. Many of them have been locked up by the Lord, but some of the demons still wander the earth. The Lord encountered some of them who were afraid that He would lock them in the pit during His early ministry.
Notice how it says "in the same way." Sodom and Gomorrah, those bastions of sexual perversity, homosexuality, and all uncleaness, behaved as the fallen angels did. What does that tell you about the filth and degeneracy that we see in our day? It is no exaggeration to say that it is demonic, and it is nothing new. They act like they've discovered some new thing by their filthiness, by their "sexual liberation", but theirs is an old bondage. God made an example of these, indeed, Sodom is consistently referred to throughout Scripture as the prime example of sexual perversity. In the words of Isaiah, picked up by Paul in Romans 9: Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a Seed, we would have become like Sodom and we would have resembled Gomorrah. So cling to Jesus and leave the world behind.
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