“Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.” Jude 1:13
Thanks, but I knew that one.
My translation says “like” wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. So I always read it as the wandering stars who that darkness is reserved for, not that others can’t be cast there too. Just the way I personally read it. I read the actual men as being “doubly dead”/“second death” in lake of fire. But I’ve begun to like NASB lately and it does not add “like.” It appears to call the men wandering stars rather than like wandering stars. But, they are men, not angels, so…I perceive He was not calling human men angels/wandering stars but WAS saying: they are LIKE wandering stars for whom the darkness is reserved.
But This was what I was looking for: (it’s the “and all liars” part that my mind recalled and I wanted to look at.)
8 But for the cowardly, and [
d]unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral persons, and sorcerers, and idolaters,
and all liars, their part
will be in the lake that burns with fire and [
e]brimstone, which is
the second death.”
8 “But cowards, unbelievers, the corrupt, murderers, the immoral, those who practice witchcraft,
idol worshipers, and all liars—their fate is in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
When Jude begins to talk about the human men,
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.
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.
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.
So…I think that whole passage speaks of these men. Do you?
