Jude 4-5 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. 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.
Certain men crept in unawares. These are the tares.
Before of old ordained to this condemnation. From the first age, "before of old," these ungodly men, the tares, were ordained to fulfil their role in this flesh life just as He has ordained His prophets......
Denying the only Lord God. How is He denied? They come pretending to be of God (have a form of godliness), but somehow they deny the Lord.....
These false prophets/false teachers/tares deny the power. Do they deny that Jesus came in the flesh, in a flesh body? Of course not for....what believer would that deceive? Rather it is that they deny He comes in our flesh! The power, the Holy Spirit, abides IN us, dwells IN us, walks IN us....IN our flesh.
Jude 6-7 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. 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.
Jude 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.
Jude 12-13 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; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Certain men crept in unawares. These are the tares.
Matthew 13:25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Before of old ordained to this condemnation. From the first age, "before of old," these ungodly men, the tares, were ordained to fulfil their role in this flesh life just as He has ordained His prophets......
Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Denying the only Lord God. How is He denied? They come pretending to be of God (have a form of godliness), but somehow they deny the Lord.....
2 Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
1 John 4:1-3 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
We're told that they are not only among the multitudes but...they are among us!
1 John 4:1-3 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
These false prophets/false teachers/tares deny the power. Do they deny that Jesus came in the flesh, in a flesh body? Of course not for....what believer would that deceive? Rather it is that they deny He comes in our flesh! The power, the Holy Spirit, abides IN us, dwells IN us, walks IN us....IN our flesh.
Jude 6-7 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. 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.
Above we were shown the tares, ordained to this role because of their previous actions in the first age. They are flesh...born of woman. Here we are taught of the fallen angels who are "under darkness," because of their actions in this age. They chose to by-pass God's plan of salvation where all souls must be born of woman to pass through this age determining which Rock they would stand upon.
Instead, the angels "left their own habitation." They mixed flesh and spirit...they produced offspring which were the Geber...Giants.
For that reason God flooded the earth and placed the fallen angels "in everlasting chains under darkness," the "darkness" referring to Satan. They are spiritually chained to him to do his will and they have no recourse. They are condemned souls.
Deuteronomy 32:31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
Instead, the angels "left their own habitation." They mixed flesh and spirit...they produced offspring which were the Geber...Giants.
Genesis 6:2,4 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. (4) There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
For that reason God flooded the earth and placed the fallen angels "in everlasting chains under darkness," the "darkness" referring to Satan. They are spiritually chained to him to do his will and they have no recourse. They are condemned souls.
Jude 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.
The body of Moses. I wonder if this is speaking of the law? Is that the body, the Torah?
Jude 12-13 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; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
These tares and fallen angels are spots - men who morally corrupt your charity/goodwill. They are with us as we learn, teach, pray, worship for they "feast with you." The tares/transgressors shall be "plucked up by the roots."
They are the "raging waves of the sea" - wild men, men of the sea...men of Satan's kingdom of unbelievers. They are the "before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men." With the tares are the Wandering Stars - fallen angels bound to Satan to do his bidding.
Proverbs 2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
They are the "raging waves of the sea" - wild men, men of the sea...men of Satan's kingdom of unbelievers. They are the "before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men." With the tares are the Wandering Stars - fallen angels bound to Satan to do his bidding.
