THE BOOK OF JUDE

 

THE BOOK OF JUDE

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The Book of Jude - Chuck Missler  

Jude 23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the 

garment spotted by the flesh.

Jude 1-4

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· The smallest book of the New Testament was written by one of the four brothers of Jesus Himself and is full of unique allusions and insights from the Old Testament: lessons from Israel in the Wilderness; the angels that sinned; the strange events in Sodom and Gomorrah; Michael and Satan’s contention over the body of Moses; and other insights from Cain, Balaam, Korah, as well as the mysterious person known as Enoch.

· Jude is the “vestibule” to the book of Revelation. It includes the oldest prophecy uttered by a prophet of the Second Coming of Christ, declared before the flood of Noah. This unique epistle was written for us today: it is the only book of the New Testament devoted entirely to apostasy. Full of surprises for the diligent student, it is a unique pleasure as well as an essential equipping.

Introduction:

Acts – The Beginning of the Church Age

The Acts of the Apostles

Jude – The End of the Church Age

The Acts of the Apostates

Epistles:      

• James — good works as evidence of saving faith;
• Jude — evil works as evidence of apostasy.

- Tragically  neglected ‘by students, commentaries have three pages on the book of Jude,

· That said, it’s a book of substantial neglect etc.

· it is the only book devoted ENTIRELY to the Great Apostacy. Before the Lord comes, in fact the Lord proposes A rhetorical question, will he find faith on the earth?

· There is a specific heresy that is emerging throughout the body of Christ, it's happening in the Charismatic movement, it's happening in the Fundamentalist movement, it’s happening at the Apologetic level, at the Grass Roots level. It is involving some of the most distinguished leadership throughout America, and secretly.

· Many of the leaders in the so-called Christian Church in America secretly espouse the doctrine that is not only a heresy but maybe laying the very philosophical foundation for The Great Tribulation.

· Again, Jude is the only book devoted ENTIRELY to the Great Apostacy.

Luke 18:8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

Apostosia:

The “Falling Away”

· Apostasia is a word that gets kicked around a bit, let's look add a few of these critical passages.

2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Antichrist is not his title:                                                                                                      · And then it goes on to talk about the Antichrist in a lot of ways and I'm using the term Antichrist in a colloquial sense. You sophisticated students know that it's not one of his titles he has 50 that’s not one them but it’s the one everyone uses, so, you know who I mean.

· But the main point is an apostasy precedes the end times, it sets the stage for this leader to emerge, so, 2 Thessalonians 2 is a key passage,  I won't be real our study into Jude to get into that.

The “Departure from the Faith”

1 Timothy 4:1  Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

· False doctrine is not just superstition, it is not just deviations from the truth, it is engineered deception by the host of darkness himself.

“Unwillingness to Endure Sound Doctrine”

2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after 

their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

· And what's really fascinating is when someone rejects the truth of Jesus Christ, the stuff they turn to the most bizarre things.

“False teachers, Damnable Heresies”

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.

“Where Is the Promise?”

2 Peter 3:3-4 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking 

after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the

fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

· By the way this may sound strange, because on the one hand of the characteristics of these false teachers is that they are going to cast doubt about the second coming of Jesus Christ. Part of the viewpoint or doctrine of this is them saying, “Where is the promise of his coming?” It's a skeptical rhetorical question about denying the second coming. The argument here doesn’t seem linked at first blessed at all. He says,  for since the father's first fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.

· What's not obvious by the structure of that sentence is there is a link here in a doubt of creation with the second coming. What has the second coming to do with evolution and so forth, it's this disparagement of the idea that there is a God, who on the one hand created the universe in the first place, and secondly intervenes in its history by returning and involving Himself. And one of the fascinating links it's not obvious, but it’s worth you consideration to recognize that a faith in the creation is linked to a faith in prophecy. It has to do with Uniformitarianism, it has to do with the recognition that there is a Creator who has a purpose and an involvement in your life as well as mine.

· That's whole idea behind, God's purpose in the first place and His willingness and interest and involvement in interfering in man’s history and intervening and in fact intruding none other than His Son on a very special mission. And one in which He will again, intrude upon history by returning and so forth.

· So, the whole idea of the Second coming is related to …Genesis 1 is related to Revelation 22, it’s all linked.

Jude

·         Parallels the book of James

- James — Good works as evidence of saving faith;

- Jude — Evil works as evidence of apostasy.

· The apostles Jude and James were brothers.

·         Jude is the vestibule of the book of Revelation.

Structurally it's very handy because it sets the stage for the Book of Revelation.

· Jude will be fun for us because it gives us an excuse to pick into the dark corners of the books in the Old Testament. Jude makes all kinds of off hand references things he assumes you know, and that causes us to scramble for our Concordances and whatever to find out what on earth is he talking about?

·         Filled with fascinating Old Testament references and allusions.

 Structural Outline:

· There are 11 parts to the book of Jude but structurally, it's quite interesting. The first and the last line is “Assurance for the Christian” it opens with “Assurance for the Christian” and it closes with “Assurance for the Christian.” That’s no surprise he's going to talk about apostasy but he's going to talk to you people not the apostates. So, the one thing that he wants to do is give you is assurance, both up front and at the end.

· The Second section from the beginning is the same idea, as the second from the end. “The Believer and the Faith.”

The second and the tenth.

· The Third from the front end is “Apostates Described”, and the third from the back is apostates described.

· The Fourth subject so to speak is “Apostasy in Old Testament History”, the fourth from the end is, “Apostasy in Old Testament Prophecy.”

· The Fifth subject is “Apostasy in the Supernatural Realm”, the Fifth from the end is “Apostasy in the Natural Realm.”

· And the Middle section is “An Ancient Trio of Apostates”

Assurance for the Christian                                                         1-2

  The Believer and the Faith                                                            3

      Apostates Described                                                                 4

        Apostasy in Old Testament History                                     5-8

          Apostasy in the Supernatural Realm                               9-10

            An Ancient Trio of Apostates                                             11

          Apostasy in the Natural Realm                                      12-13

        Apostasy in Old Testament Prophecy                              14-16

      Apostates Described                                                           17-19

    The Believer and the Faith                                                    20-23

Assurance for the Christian                                                       24-25

· “Jude” in the Greek is, Judas here's a book about apostasy, whose name happens to be synonymous with traitor. (i.e., “Apostasy,” “Traitor”!) It's interesting we call our kids Samuel, We call our sons “Paul,” “Peter” John, Matthew. How many of you named your kids Judas? Jude and Judas was a very common name in Christ’s day. It's four or five of them in the New Testament alone. And yet because of one by the name of Iscariot, the name has sort of gotten tainted it's not a popular name you know you name your dogs “Nero,” “Caesar” you don't even name your dog Judas.

· The only pet that I know who has the name of Judas, is at the meatpacking plant in South Dakota, there actually is a Judas goat. He leads the cattle up the ramp, he turns right, and the cattle turns left.

· The Holy Spirit does in fact, more often than not, indulge in puns. Not for humor but for a message. When we in the Old Testament read the Book of Joshua, the name Yahoshua is the Hebrew name for Jesus.  And when you realize there's a book in the Old Testament whose name is a name sake for our Lord, it pauses our attention and all kinds of things to surface and for us to look at that sort of thing.

·         Joshua comes from the Hebrew name "Yehoshua," meaning "God is deliverance."

· Here is a book about apostacy that happens to carry the name Judas, is provocative.

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:

“Bondservant of Jesus Christ”: doulos. Is He your LORD, too? Cf. Revelation 1:1, “to show His servants....”

· Jesus had four brothers.

· This is not the Jude listed with the 12 apostles, this is a different Jude.

· This is not the James listed with the 12 apostles, this is a different James.

· This Jude and James were brothers.

Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his 

angel unto his servant John:

“Servants” From,  doulos (1401)” a slave. doúlos (a masculine noun of uncertain derivation) – properly, someone who belongs to another; a bond-slave, without any ownership rights of their own. Ironically, 1401 /doúlos ("bond-slave") is used with the highest dignity in the New Testament – namely, of believers who willingly live under Christ's authority as His devoted followers.

· “Brother of James”: James was Head of the Church in Jerusalem; author of the Epistle of James; the “Lord’s brother” (Galatians 1:19); one of four “brothers” of Jesus (Mark 6:3; cf. Psalms 69:7,8).

The Family of Jesus:

Mark 6:2-3 And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: 

and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works 

are wrought by his hands? 3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.

· Neither James nor Jude were among the 12. They didn’t believe it (at first); cf. John 7:5.

John 7:5 For even His own brothers did not believe in Him. (Berean Study Bible)

· James and Jude both, became very active after His resurrection.

Epistles:        

·         James — good works as evidence of saving faith;

·         Jude — evil works as evidence of apostasy.

Let’s check our equipment before we plunge into the book.

Jude 1:1b…to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, 

and called:

There are three concepts here.

· “Sanctified ... Preserved ... Called”:

Trinity: Called, Beloved, Kept (Authorized Version).

· There is a “calling”, there is a “loving”, and there is a “keeping.” Who called you? The Father. Who loves you? Jesus. Who preserves or keeps you? The Holy Spirit.

“Called”

·         I have chosen you (John 15:16; John 6:65)

·         God hath from the beginning chosen you. (2 Thessalonians 2:13, 14)

·         Foreknew, predestined, called, justified, glorified (Romans 8:28-30)

Romans 8:28-30 And we know that all things work together for good to them that 

love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 9 For whom he did foreknow, 

he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he 

might be the firstborn among many brethren. 10 Moreover whom he did predestinate, 

them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, 

them he also glorified.

5 Steps:

 Foreknow, predestinate, called, justified, glorified.

· This happens to be the structure of the Book of Genesis.

·         Abraham (Was foreknown, and predestinated)

·         Isaac (His seed was called)

·         Jacob (If He can justify Jacob, He can justify anyone)

·         Joseph (Was glorified) as a type of Christ

Paul has in mind here a structure, of the book of Genesis.

“Beloved”

Who are the “Beloved”?

(John 14:23; John 16:27; John 17:20, 23).                                                                        John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: 

and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. John 16:27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

John 17 Is the Most Intimate Prayer in Scripture Between Jesus and the Father:  

John 17:20, 23 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on 

me through their word; …23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect 

in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as 

thou hast loved me.

· The letter of Jude is not written to the unbeliever, but to you and I.

“Kept”                                                                                                                              

· “Kept”, is the only salutation in any epistle in the New Testament that has this word in the salutation, that uses this particular verb “kept”.

· The word in the Greek implies, “Watchful care; close attention; it is a present possession.”

Perfect tense: It actually means, “Continually kept”

Example: of the word “kept.” Peter and Paul’s imprisonment (Acts 12:5; Acts 25:4, 21); our heavenly inheritance (1 Peter 1:4).

Perfect tense: “Continually kept.”

· He will keep us from the hour of trial (Revelation 3:10). We are to be kept blameless unto the coming (1 Thessalonians 5:23). Caution: We need to “keep” ourselves (Jude 21)!

“Kept”

· It is used of the Fallen angels also, who “kept” not (verse 6) as they kept not their first estate.

· So, whatever is binding them, they are kept.

· He will keep us from the hour of trial (Revelation 3:10).

· Caution: We need to “keep” ourselves (Jude 21) in the love of God!

· We are to be kept blameless unto the coming (1 Thessalonians 5:23).

2] Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

· “ Mercy” rather than Grace?

·         Grace is getting what we don’t deserve

-      Unmerited favor, what we are not entitled to.

·         Mercy, is not getting what we do deserve

-      Implies failure

Why is it mercy rather than grace? Because mercy suits the message (Hebrews 4:16).

Law = Death (Numbers 15:32-36), failure (James 2:10)

Works = Chamber of horrors (Galatians 5:19-21)

Grace: Ephesians 2:4

· “Peace”: We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1). There is no peace for the wicked (Isaiah 57:20,21).

·         Worry about nothing /

·         Pray about everything | Philippians 4:6-7

·         Thank God for anything /

Philippians 4:6-7 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication 

with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through 

Christ Jesus.

· Did you know that worry is a sin? I (Chuck Missler) worry a lot, I’m a big sinner, I have a lot of anxieties, it’s all unbelief. I pray a lot about that, I’m worrying less and less because He’s just taking over more and more, and I wished I had learned that a long time ago. They don’t pay me by the hour they pay be by the ulcer (Chuck Missler.) He sees us through, never early but always at the last minute because He’s got to get us to the point to where we finally give up and realize it’s all in His hands. When we do that, He comes through and fixes things, and you’d wonder why don't we ever learn to stop worrying and we pray about everything and whatever happens we give thanks and so forth.

2] (Continued) Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

· “ Love”: This word appears in each of the first three verses: it must be important.

· It is our badge of identity.

John 13:34, 35 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

· Lack of love in the end times (Philadelphia is followed by Laodicea).

· The Ephesians were very rigorous and steadfast in their doctrine, but they lost their first love.

· Ephesian pitfall: They lost their “first love...”

· Cf. In Jude 20,21; these same elements appear.

Jude 20-21 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.

· So, we have mercy, peace, and love. Mercy is upward, Peace is inward, and Love is outward.

          Mercy: Upward                   Peace: Inward               Love: Outward

Jude’s Objective:

·         This is written to the Beloved

- This has very little meaning to those not born into the family of God

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for 

they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually 

discerned.

·         1 Corinthians 2:14 “agapao”: totally given over to.

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.

· “Beloved” From, “agapétos (27)” a verbal adjective, derived from 26 /agápē, "love") – properly, divinely-loved; beloved ("loved by God"), i.e. personally experiencing God's 

"agapē-love."

· What the language in the English doesn't get across is what he's really trying to say here.  “…when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation,…”

· That's what he started to do, what he’s really saying is, “When I sat down in all straightforwardness to write you a letter about our common salvation.” In other words, we are believers and I sat down, and I was about to write you … I infer that it’s probably like a letter that Paul would write. He’d be away on a trip, and he’d write his church to encourage them and pray for them and give them and write about our commonalities and sometimes include some theological tid bits, but basically just want to encourage them.

· That’s what Jude started to do.

· Jude’s objective for the epistle. To whom is the epistle written? To the “Beloved.” It holds little meaning to those not born into His family.

· There was “A Divine Compulsion” — something changed his mind.

· Jude was divinely forced to write what he wrote.

· The word in the Greek means, “to compress; to put pressure on.”)

·         Christ: “must needs” (Acts 17:3);

·         Paul: “necessity is laid upon me...” (1 Corinthians 9:16).

·         Word precise (2 Peter 1:21).

Acts 17:3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again 

from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.

· That word, “must needs” is the same compulsion.

· How urgent was it for Christ to suffer and die and to be raised again from the dead? Pretty urgent, the word in the Greek is pretty intense.

1 Corinthians 9:16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for

necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

· Paul says, “necessity is laid upon me;”

2 Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Exhortation:

First Exhortation: Earnestly contend for the faith.

· “Exhort” in the Greek is a (verb) = the (noun) is Paraclete: comforter, called alongside.

· Greek “contend” is to agonize upon; to “contend” strenuously in defense of.

· “Contend” is an active military word.

How are YOU faithfully following this exhortation?

Examples:

• Do you strengthen the hands of faithful pastors and tape ministries (Revelation 3:2)

• Are you an unflinching witness; diligent preparation (verse 20)

• Do you withhold support and encouragement from those who compromise or deny the whole counsel of God; speak out against the preaching of “another Gospel” (Proverbs 19:27)

• Do you work with a sword at your side (Nehemiah 4:17, 18).

Nehemiah 4:17, 18 They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon. 18 For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.

· In whatever work you do it is appropriate to have a sword, it is the word of God.

“That Ye Should Earnestly Contend For The Faith”

· “Epagónizomai (1864)” meaning, to contend with or for. epagōnízomai (from 1909 /epí, "focused on" and 73 /agṓn, "a contest, competition")

– properly, to contend (literally, "struggle upon, appropriately"), i.e. with skill and commitment in opposing whatever is not of faith

Faith:

· Contend earnestly for the “Faith”

· The word “Faith” is a more inclusive term than “salvation” or “gospel.”

· Eighteen occurrences: There are eighteen references

·         Examine yourselves (2 Corinthians 13:5)                                                                 

2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your

own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be 

reprobates?

·         Mystery (1 Timothy 3:9)

1 Timothy 3:9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.  

· “Mystery” from, “musterion” is something that was hidden, but now I’m revealing it.

· So, there's something about faith, it's not really obvious it's not a glib easy thing.

· Faith is more than “belief.” Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved, you and your house great. I can believe that that chair will hold my weight, I don't have faith in it until I rely on it.

· Faith has to do with relying on that belief.

·         To be departed in the last days (1 Timothy 4:1)

1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

· Faith is something, that is going to depart from the earth in the Last Days, in some broad way.

· That's why the epistle to Jude is such a last day's issue, apostasy is going to be something that not just happened in the last days, it is going to characterize the last days.

·         Involves duty to others (1 Timothy 5:8)

1 Timothy 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

· Hey guys did you know that you have an obligation to provide for your families? You sort of knew that I mean you have read the book of Proverbs and you wife sort of reminds you of that.

·         Faithful teaching establishes the Church in faith (Acts 16:5)

Acts 16:5 And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number 

daily.

·         All believers need exhortation to stand fast and to continue therein (1 Corinthians 16:13; Acts 14:22)

1 Corinthians 16:13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, [and] exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Apostasy:

· Any claim of additional revelation outside of the Bible is evidence of apostasy (Deuteronomy 4:2; Revelation 22:18). There is great need for a “Combat Faith” (Ephesians 6)!

Deuteronomy 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God 

which I command you.

· That's typical of many, many passages in the scripture it occurs obviously in the Torah as I've mentioned just here. Let’s go to the other end of the Book.

Revelation 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues 

that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of 

the holy city, and [from] the things which are written in this book.

· Do you want to add anything or subtract anything? I don't think so.

· All of this gives rise to, “Combat Faith.” There is great need for “Combat Faith” (Ephesians 6)!

· The whole idea is that your faith is not just the passive, private, invisible thing that you have around family night at the family table.

· Faith isn't just something in the quiet morning hours when you read your morning devotions.

·         There is great need for “Combat Faith” (Ephesians 6)!

· Faith is a combatant thing.

- Put on the whole armor of God

- Both defensive and offensive

- Active warrior for the faith

A Personal Side Note: 1 Thessalonians 2:19 put on the crown of rejoicing before putting on the helmet of salvation.

1 Thessalonians 2:19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye 

in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

“Rejoicing” From, “kauchesis (2746)” meaning, boasting, which can either be in the "achievements" of self (negatively) or about God's grace (positively). From kauchaomai; boasting (properly, the act; by implication, the object), in a good or a bad sense -- boasting, whereof I may glory, glorying, rejoicing.

· We have to have rejoicing in this war that the Lord has allowed us to partake in, joy in seeing Him move in us for His glory!

·         Why did Jude have to write this letter?

· Because there are tares among the wheat.
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.

Verse 4: The Threat (contrast with 2 Peter).

Why did Jude write this letter? Because of verse 4

Why must we contend for the faith? Verse 4

• There are Tares among the Wheat (Matthew 1:24-30)

• False brethren have stolen into the Church (Galatians 2:4-5)

Galatians 2:4-5 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

• Saints are in peril (2 Corinthians 11:26)

2 Corinthians 11:26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils 

by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

· “Perils” From, “kindunos (2794)” danger, peril, risk.

• Latter times: doctrines of demons (1 Timothy 4:1,6)

• Pre-written warnings: Enoch verses 14,15.

What Is an Apostate?

Parable of the sower, the seed, the soils:

• Rocky ground: In time of temptation (verb form Apostosia) “receive”: dekomi (Luke 8:13) vs.

• Good ground: “receive”: Paradekomai (Mark 4:20); “welcomed” it into their life.

· Apostates do not understand the Word

· They do not bring forth fruit (Matthew 13:23)

· “Without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by roots” (verse 12)

What Is An Apostate?

·— it is not indifference, error, or involvement in heresy alone:

— Deliberate rejection is involved

— They received light, but not life; written Word, but not Living Word

— Examples: Judas, Cain, Balaam, Korah (verse 11)

· What manner of men are these? “Crept in privily” = “have settled down alongside.” These are false teachers, privily shall bring in damnable heresies (2 Peter 2:1).

Three Identifiers of Apostates:

— Ungodly

— perverts of grace

— denying our Lord and Master

·         Cain, ungodliness

·         Balaam, perversion of grace

·         Korah, denial of God’s appointed leader

— “Ungodly” = Someone who is destitute of reverential awe toward God

• Form, but denies the power thereof (2 Timothy 3:5)

• Denies the Gospel of Christ (Romans 1:16)

• Denies the transforming power, new life (Philippians 3:10)

• Heart vs. outward appearances is key (1 Samuel 16:7; Isaiah 66:2)

• Denies wrath against sin; God’s holiness and God’s acceptance of the finished work of Jesus Christ on behalf of sinners;

• Universal Brotherhood of Man vs. John 8:44; John 1:12; Galatians 3:26 All men are not brothers, some are in the family of God and others are not.

John 3:5-7 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

John 8:18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me. 19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye 

neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father 

also.

· Here they are calling Jesus a bastard, they are alluding to his assumed illegitimacy, because of Joseph and Mary.

· Jesus eventually tells them who their father is.

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. 

He was a murderer from the beginning (Adam), and abode not in the truth, because 

there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. …58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before 

Abraham was, I am.

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states

The National Anthem is:

Ode to Joy by Schiller from Beethoven’s 9^th

The poem "Ode to Joy" expresses Schiller's idealistic vision of the human race becoming brothers - a vision Beethoven shared. In 1972, the Council of Europe adopted Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" theme as its anthem. In 1985, it was adopted by EU leaders as the official anthem of the European Union.

Perverts of Grace:

“Perverts the grace of God into lasciviousness”:

· Perversion of Ephesians 2:8,9 vs. Titus 2:11-13; rejection of the Word of God occurs whenever it is displaced by tradition, custom, creed, loyalty to an organization, etc.

Titus 2:11-13 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, 

righteously, and godly, in this present world; 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

· Rejection of the Word of God occurs whenever it is displaced by tradition, custom, creed, loyalty to an organization, etc.

· When these things displace, the primacy of the word of God in your life, that is perverting the grace of God in your life.

Deny Our LORD:

“Denies our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 2:1,2):

·         His Sovereignty: Preexistent Creator of all things.

·         “Lord”: of all true believers (Acts 10:36; Romans 14:9).

·         “Jesus”: Jehovah the Saviour, our martyr-substitute.

·         “Christ”: Messiah, the Anointed One of Old Testament Prophecy.

· If we deny Him, He will deny us (Matthew 10:3; 2 Timothy 2:12; 1 John 2:22,23).

Homework: Numbers 14 (answered prayer); 1 Corinthians 10, Hebrews 3,4.

Jude 5

Jude Session 2 (Verse 5) - Chuck Missler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydzsAcSWh6Q

Review:

· Jude was the brother of James and Jesus.

· The Book is subtitled, “The Acts of the Apostates”

· To whom was the Book of Jude written? To The Beloved Believers, and the End of the Age.

· Jude's message affects our day.

· The book of Jude contrasts with the book of James

· Why was it written? Exhort Believers to Contend Earnestly for The Faith.

- By directly witnessing

 - Supporting those who teach the whole council of God

Three Examples of Apostasy:

Verses 5, 6, and 7

Three Examples (for our learning...) The three different groups

Example:                                                             Group:

·         Israel                                                        verse 5 “saved men”

·         Angels that sinned                                  verse 6 “angels”

·         Sodom & Gomorrah                               verse 7 “unsaved men”

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.

Remember:

·         Writing to believers, calls to mind some history:

-      Remember Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

-      Remember how Israel was miraculously delivered

-      Remember how a world empire yielded to God's hand

-      God set things up to show His strength and power

·         God uses this event for an example to the people

-      Not just minimum amount of power to do the job

-      It was a grand display of God's mighty power

• Pillar of fire by night and a pillar of cloud by day

• Trapped between the Egyptian army and the Red Sea

-      The water part for them to go through on dry land

-      The Egyptians drowned in an attempt to follow them

·         It was an 11-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-Barnea

Deuteronomy 1:2 Berean Study Bible It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.

-      It took Israel 38 years to make an 11-day journey

• Over a million left Egypt. None returned

-      Only two Israelites over 20 years old who left Egypt ever reached Canaan

·         That's what Jude is talking about here, in part

·         A million were delivered from Egypt

·         Were those million saved?

·         There was a mixed multitude

-      Those that rebelled against Moses got theirs Korah, Dathan, Abiathar

·         The question is were they saved?

Lessons from Israel’s Wilderness Experience:

·         What is the issue?

·         NOT: I don't think Jude is focusing on the ability of the Lord to save these people

-      God being able and willing to save this is not the issue

Of all the other lessons that we're not going to talk about is;

-      Passover Lamb (the blood on the doorpost)

-      How were they saved out of Egypt?

-      Red Sea Miracle?

-      Tabernacle? Priesthood? Offerings?

·         The issue is APOSTASY:

-      The Falling Away

-      And destruction that falls upon them because of that

·         The lesson is:

· God reserves the right to destroy that people if they become guilty of certain forms of unbelief, or other sins to which unbelief leads.

· That's the sobering insight that we're going to see dramatized by none other and Israel herself.

Important Reminders:

Assurance and Safekeeping:

·         “They shall never perish” (John 10:28)

John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall 

any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater

than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

“...shall never thirst” (John 4:14) Those in hell, always thirst.

John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; 

but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into 

everlasting life.

·         There are no conditions in the sense of being “losable.”

·         Don't confuse eternal security with the idea that we can suffer destruction.

Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things 

were so.

Let’s Understand Verse 5:

1) Understand what this salvation was

2) Understand what this unbelief was

3) Understand what this destruction was.

There are three examples in these three verses 5-6 and 7, the second two are tied up with eternal punishment. So, if you read this casually you might imply that it applies to all three, it might apply to some in verse 5.

·         Was Israel truly saved?

-      Absolutely that was the reason for the blood on the doorpost

-      “My people...” (Exodus 3:7; 5:1; Deuteronomy 33:29)

-      Was everyone saved? -  No, some have some very peculiar views

There was some that prayed in unusual prayer and God answered it.

·         They were saved in a deeper sense than just being delivered from bondage.

·         We see over a million people rounded up and leaving Egypt how many returned? None returned

-      Among the multitude there were some that didn't make it

-      In Numbers 14:1, 2 — the people prayed a prayer?

-      Verses 28, 29 — prayer answered!

-      God answered their prayer according to their wishes!

Numbers 14:1-2 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people

wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

· It wasn't that long ago that they were feeling the sting of the taskmaster whip, it wasn't that long ago that they were abused slaves.

· God through the most incredible theatrics delivers them and how quickly they forget.

· And now they are murmuring, saying, “Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt!”

Numbers 14:3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

Numbers 14:26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. 28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, 30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son 

of Nun. 31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. 32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

· For 38 years day one until they die off, they got their prayer answered.

Numbers 14:33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear 

your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

· There's a tendency for you and I to read these quaint stories in the Bible, and think,  “They were under the law, and that was then, we’re under grace.”

Let's see what the apostle Paul says about this kind of thinking.

Exposition of 1 Corinthians 10:1-14

11] Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for 

our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

·         ALL that’s written in the Old Testament on Israel is for our example ... types!

Nothing is extraneous (irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with.).

·         Names, numbers, places, all of it is for our learning.

· I don't believe there's a name a number a place in the scripture that's not there for our learning.

· The Kabbalistic rabbi’s say that when the Messiah comes, He will interpret all things, He will even interpret the spaces between the letters. They believe that the text is so mystical,  numerical value up letters, every detail has meaning. And they muster up some amazing insights from all of that.

· I lean that way, I may be a New Testament Kabbalist I suppose, I think that they are on the right track.

1 Corinthians 10:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 And were 

all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did all eat the same spiritual 

meat; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock 

that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

· Take the word “rock” or “stone” throughout the scripture from beginning to end, and it is an amazing study. The rock that was struck, that was smitten for you and I and brings forth water. The second time it was supposed to give forth water and Moses didn't follow directions he wasn’t supposed to hit the rock and that’s when he lost his commission.

 · But again, it was lessons the Lord was stop trying to teach in terms of that rock, the stone cut without hands. The stone in Daniel 2 in Nebuchadnezzar’s vision, all the way through scripture, it’s a study that you can take with your commentary. It all points to Yeshua Hamashiach the Messiah of Israel.

· And here this is not one of those places where this is some coincidental happening, all himself indulges that pun right here. The rock that followed them and that rock was Christ, Christ is intended to be visible in the Torah.

1 Corinthians 10:5-6 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Types:

There is some typology going on additional to the actual historical event of the Egyptian Pharoah in Israel. The holy Spirit also used that typologically, Egypt is a type or model of the world.

· True Faith vs. outward relationship only:

· Egypt                   Type of                   World

· Pharaoh               Type of                   Devil & his armies

· Moses                  Type of                   Deliverer: Christ

· Red Sea                Type of                   Baptism

· Pillar: cloud, fire   Type of                   Holy Spirit

· Manna                 Type of                   Bread of Life

· Water from Smitten Rock Type of      Living Water

· Carcasses fell in the wilderness, not Egypt:

- They were out of Egypt but short of Canaan.

They are probably where you and I are at, out of Egypt. The very fact that you are called to his Bible study, implies that you were called out of this world with some level of maturity. And yet, the presumption that I am making is that we have not crossed over to the Jordan.

Misconceptions:

·         Some naive songs give wrong typology.

· Crossing over the Jordan is NOT dying!

· Canaan the promised land is NOT heaven!

- There are battles in Canaan!

·         Crossing over into the Promised Land is the idea of entering into what God has for us. Hebrews 3 & 4

· Recognize that while it's undesirable to wander in the wilderness and desirable to cross over the Jordan into Canaan land.

-  Don't confuse that with dying and going to heaven.

- There is something that God desires for you to enter into while you're here, in your walk and into His rest. Taking advantage of His promises in a more comprehensive way.

 Application to the Church:

· Most of us make a 40-year wandering out of a 11-day journey, that's what the apostle Paul is trying to tell us.

- Had Israel accepted God's word on faith they would have entered into the land 38 years earlier. It was their unbelief that prevented them from entering in.

- We need to appropriate all of what God has for us.

·         Leave behind the wilderness of doubt, defeat, failures, and enter VICTORY! 1 Corinthians 10; Hebrews 3&4; Revelation 3.

- When you think of Canaan don't think of heaven, think of VICTORY!

- Is this a theme that applies to the church? Yes!

·         “Thou how hast the name that thou livest, and art dead.” (The Church of Sardis, Revelation 3:1)

·         Cf. Lazarus: Had three stages 1. Dead. 2. Defeated. 3. Dangerous.

1 Corinthians 10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; 

as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

Idolatry:

· Idolatry: When the Leader is no longer visible, they began to indulge into idolatry => Golden Calf Exodus 32

An idol is anything we place before the Lord ... “Little children, keep yourself from idols” (1 John 5:21; 1 Corinthians 10:14).

1 Corinthians 10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

What is an idol?

· An idol is anything we place before the Lord ...

-      Something we create, embrace, establish …

-      Career

-      Hobbies

-      What we pour our passion into

-      Gets between us and God

Jordan is NOT death. Leave behind the wilderness of doubt, defeat, failures, and enter VICTORY!

· It was an 11-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-Barnea (Deuteronomy 1:2). It took Israel 38 years!! Over a million left Egypt. None returned.

· But only two Israelites over 20 years old who left Egypt ever reached Canaan!

8] Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day 

three and twenty thousand...

[23,000: “one day” vs. Numbers 25:9 “24,000.”]

· 23,000 fell the first day, 2,000 the next.

·         Direct fornication is obviously a gigantic problem in our society, there are derivative aspects of it.

· Uncleanness: Novels, movies, cable TV, modern music; “Ye have been called to liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh”

Galatians 5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

· That broadens the definition considerably,

9] Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of 

serpents.

Tempt Christ? “Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?” Numbers 21:

Numbers 21:5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

·         Neglect of manna is tempting the Lord!

- They murmured against the manna! [Response to ingratitude ... lessons as a parent...]

6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

· God doesn't mess around!

7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken 

against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents 

from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent (saraph), and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

9 And Moses made a serpent (nachash) of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent (nachash)  had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent 

(nachash) of brass, he lived.

·         Pole - is traditionally considered to be a cross

·         Christ as a Brazen Serpent? (John 3:14,15)

·         Brass = Judgement; Serpent = Sin (2 Corinthians 5:21)

· That brass serpent is a type of Jesus Christ

John 3:14,15 And as Moses lifted up the serpent (snake/Satan) in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

- God set this up here technically to call it a pun, He has set up a model of none other than the cross of Calvary.

- That brass serpent is a type of Jesus Christ.

- Jesus Christ would be raised up and put on a pole so that whoever looks to him will be saved, over him the serpent would have no power.

John 3:15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we 

might be made the righteousness of God in him.

· The holy one of God was made sin for us, that's why he could say, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Psalms 22

[Aesculapius: son of Apollo; born in Alexandria; the symbol of Aesculapius is a single serpent on a cross — in Greek mythology the double serpent (medical profession’s symbol) is Hermes, the symbol of commerce (trade)!]

· Some 690 years later the brazen serpent was still in the hands of Israel, and it was being worshipped. (2 Kings 18)

· Maybe that's why Noah's Ark is still hidden because we seek to put the creation ahead of the Creator every chance we get.

1 Corinthians 10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

· “Neither murmur”

·         re: Korah, Dathan, and Abiram

Numbers 16:3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up your -

selves above the congregation of the LORD? …

· After Moses tried reasoning with them and got nowhere, he said, …

Numbers 16:30-33 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, 

and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.

Inserted Note (TWH): This is the same place as Isaiah 5:14 and houses, their property, people, their stuff are all in hell.

Isaiah 5:14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, 

shall descend into it.

31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: 32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. 33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, 

and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.

·         “Pit” From the word, “sheol (7585)” meaning, underworld (place to which people descend at death).

·         “Hell” From the word, “sheol (7585)” meaning, underworld (place to which people descend at death).

· Why shouldn’t we murmur? Because God gave us everything.

· “He that spared not his own Son,...”  

Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

·         Never allow ourselves to become self-confident. (verse 12 teaches us, “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” “But the fearful, and unbelieving”

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, 

and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

· “Fearful” From the word, “deilos (1169)” deilós (an adjective derived from deidō, "fear-driven") – properly, dreadful, describing a person who loses their "moral gumption (fortitude)" that is needed to follow the Lord. 1169 /deilós ("fearful of losses") refers to an excessive fear (dread) of "losing," causing someone to be fainthearted (cowardly) – hence, to fall short in following Christ as Lord. [1169 /deilós is always used negatively in the New Testament and stands in contrast to the positive fear which can be expressed by 5401 /phóbos.

· “ Unbelieving” From the word, “ápistos (571)” unbelieving, incredulous, unchristian; sometimes subst: unbeliever. (from 1 /A "not" and 4103 /pistós, "faithful," see there) – properly, not faithful because unpersuaded, i.e. not convinced 

(persuaded by God). 571 /ápistos ("faithless, unpersuaded") does not always refer to the unconverted – see Jn 20:27. 571 (ápistos) describes someone who rejects or refuses God's inbirthings of faith (note the root, faith, 4102 /pístis).

“Fire” From the word, “pur (4442)” fire; the heat of the sun, lightning; fig: strife, trials; the eternal fire. pýr – fire. In Scripture, fire is often used figuratively – like with the "fire of God" which transforms all it touches into light and likeness with itself God's Spirit,

like a holy fire, enlightens and purifies so that believers can share more and more in His likeness. Indeed the fire of God brings the uninterrupted privilege of being transformed 

which happens by experiencing faith from Him. Our lives can become true offerings to Him as we obey this imparted faith from God by His power.

[This is illustrated by God's fire burning continuously at the entrance of the Tabernacle where the priests made sweet-savor offerings. Compare Leviticus 6:12,13 with 1 Peter 2:5,9.]

11] Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for 

our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

“Admonition” From, “nouthesía (3559)” a warning, admonition, counsel. (a feminine noun derived from 3560 /nouthetéō) – properly, setting (placing) the mind through 

God-inspired warning ("admonition"). 3559 /nouthesía ("warning through teaching") 

improves a person's reasoning so they can reach God's solution – i.e. by going through 

His thought-process. See 3560 (nouthetéō).

[Romans 12:1-3 likewise emphasizes the importance of receiving God's thoughts in the renewed mind, through faith, to reach God's solutions.]

12] Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

13] There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

THE KEY:  

Hebrews 3 & 4

“Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation...” (Hebrews 3:7-13; cf. Psalms 95).

The BRETHREN must beware of “an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living 

God.”

Hebrews 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, 

in departing from the living God.

Hebrews 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, 

any of you should seem to come short of it.

Summary Warnings & Conclusion:  

“There is a sin unto death:”

1 John 5:16-17 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, 

and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto 

death.

·         Sickness, weakness, and death:

· Taking the Lord’s supper unworthily                                                                                  1 Corinthians 11:29-30 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh 

damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 30 For this cause many are weak 

and sickly among you, and many sleep.

·         Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11).                                                                                                       There Is Cleansing Available:

• Israel: There was a laver in the Tabernacle.

• Ephesians: Washing of the water by the Word (Ephesians 5:26).

• Christian’s “Bar of Soap” (1 John 1:9).

A Final Lesson Forthcoming re: Israel:  

Israel: God’s Timepiece; Christ to take DAVID’s Throne; Israel to be trampled down by the Gentiles UNTIL the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled... God’s promise to Israel was NOT due to Israel’s faithfulness (cf. Ezekiel 36:21-23).

· Versus “Kingdom Now”/“Dominion” Theology: Is the final apostasy becoming evident? Unbiblical heresy and the anti-Semitic foundation for the “Time of Jacob’s Trouble.” This is a covert movement, with closet leadership in both charismatic and fundamental camps.

Homework for next time: Read Isaiah 14; Ezekiel 28 (The origin, career and destiny of Satan) and Genesis 6 (“Sons of God and Daughters of Men”).

Jude 6

Jude Session 3 (Verse 6)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPTBk12dlCI

 I saw some of your questions on the Discussion Board, I've been studying this subject for years.

Apparently, demons are the souls or spirits of the Nephilim, they have the ability to know things that we 

don't know, the future to a certain extent, mind reading, etc., these are also the abilities that some of the Nephilim had.

The alien grays are basically "meat suits" used by entities to put on as a solid material to inhabit and to do their evil deeds dealing with alien abductions and insertions of eggs in human females. After the women are impregnated the "fetus" is removed after 3 months and reinserted into another type of carrier, the blood and tissue of a Bovin is used in these hybrids. Because cow blood and human blood can be used interchangeably, they obviously have more advanced technology than humans. Job 38:4-7 tells us that these beings were here at the creation of the earth. Before Adam and Eve were created.

Angels can have sex with women, that's why the hybrids (Nephilim) 

The KEY:

Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed (the nakash=the shining one) and her seed (the coming of the Messiah); it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

How To War For Your Loved Ones:

Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

Isaiah 49:25 But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

Job 22:28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

Job was standing in the gap for his family

John 20:23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

Satan even knows

Job 1:10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

1 Thessalonians 3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: 13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

Matthew 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Matthew 18:18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Ephesians 3:6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

Book of Enoch [Chapter 6]

https://www.ccel.org/c/charles/otpseudepig/enoch/ENOCH_1.HTM

¹ And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto ² them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men ³ and beget us children.' And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not ⁴ indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.' And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations ⁵ not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all together and bound themselves ⁶ by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn ⁷ and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, ⁸ Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaqiel, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens.

[Chapter 7]

¹ And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms ² and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. And they ³ became pregnant, and they bare great giants,

Daniel 2:43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

Overview:

Verses 5,6,7 Three historical examples of “Corporate Punishment.”

·         Three groups are singled out by Jude to teach us some things

• Verse 5 deals with the Nation of Israel in the Wilderness

• Verse 6 deals with a Strange Series of Events

• Verse 7 deals with Sodom & Gomorrah which is more familiar with us and less controversial

God judged broad civilizations for his reasons

- What lesson does the Holy Spirit desire to convey to the believer?

- Verse 6 has caused all kinds of strange controversies, so what we would like to do is

examine verse 6 and figure out when did this take place and what lessons are there for us?

· The second of three historical examples of corporate punishment. What lessons does the Holy Spirit desire to convey to the saved?

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.

• Proverbs 18:13 He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame

unto him. (To answer before listening-- that is folly and shame.)

- And if you're the average Bible student you come to this reading and say, “What on earth is that all about?” Because Jude gives us this as if we remember this. But before I venture into this with Dr. Missler, I would like to add some new findings to complement his teachings.

E = MC² (Energy equals Mass which is interconvertible

SCIENTISTS MANAGED TO TAKE PURE ENERGY AND CREATE MATTER — AND NEW PHYSICS “We wanted to take light and convert it into matter.” Wish fulfilled. BY DANIELLE SEDBROOK MARCH 16, 2022

https://www.inverse.com/science/einstein-light-matter

Daniel Brandenburg, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, … Brandenburg is a member of the STAR collaboration, a group of more than 700 scientists from 15 countries who use BNL’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, or RHIC (pronounced “Rick”), to smash gold nuclei together at 99.995 percent the speed-of-light.

A Quantum Collision Just Created Matter From Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rGTz3Ck7jo                                                        

2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel 

of light.

… 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. …”

• These angels obviously could interact back and forth between Heaven and Earth to accomplish whatever they were assigned to do.

• Manoah, the father of Samson saw an angelic being and he didn’t realize that he had been speaking to one until it manifested supernatural abilities.

Judges 13:16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.

The Angel Ascends In The Fire:

Judges 13:19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock 

unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.

• “Wondrously” From, “pala (6381)” meaning, to be surpassing or extraordinary. To do a hard or difficult thing:

Judges 13:20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.

“Flame” From “lahab (3851)” meaning, flame, blade. From an usused root meaning to gleam; a flash; figuratively, a sharply polished blade or point of a weapon -- blade, bright, flame, glittering.

• To call the word of God a lie, is blasphemy, many claim that angels cannot have sex by twisting a quote Jesus made concerning the angels in heaven neither marry or are given in marriage, He did not say that they are sexless. The scripture from the very beginning asserts that they have that ability.

Isaiah 9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

• “Light” From “Or (216)” meaning, a light. From “'owr (215)” meaning (1), illumines (1), kindle (1), light (5), lit (2), make a fire …

• So, we see that angels can interchange back and forth from seemingly human forms to becoming what they truly are, light beings.

Genesis 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

• “They took them wives” of whom? “ of the daughters of men.”

• “They” from this statement are obviously not of the seed of Mankind then. Reminding us of what God said in Genesis 3:15. Either you believe that statement or you don’t but do not twist scripture to fit your paradigm.

• This was not of the seed of Seth; this “they” seed created a different species of entities that had never existed before while the Sethites were making children. Remember, all of the Sethites died in the flood.

Daniel 2:43 even speaks of “they” … they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men …

• There is another passage that may be good to put into our minds.

2 Peter 2:4-5 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, 

and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

“And” From “kai (2532)” meaning, and, even, also, namely. (the most common New Testament conjunction, used over 9,000 times) – and (also), very often, moreover, even, 

indeed (the context  determines the exact sense).

[After 2532 (kaí), the most common word in the Greek New Testament is the definite

article ("the"). 2532 (kaí) is never adversative, i.e., it never means "however" ("but") – unlike the principal conjunction (waw) in Old Testament Hebrew (G. Archer).]

The Usage of “And” in This Case:

Matthew 1:2 begat Judas and his brethren; Matthew 1:3 begat Phares and Zara of; Matthew 1:23 shall be with child, and shall bring forth; … a son, and they shall call; Matthew 2:4 the chief priests and scribes; etc.

• So, the word, “and” ties these scriptures together as one in explaining why the angels were cast down to Tartarus. By way of saying, “And spared not the old world,”

Why Was the Old World Not Spared?

• The Human Genome, the human D.N.A. had become corrupted.

• A genome is the genetic material that makes up a living organism. It is contained in chromosomes, which are the tiny threadlike structures inside cells. Chromosomes are made from a chemical substance called DNA, and DNA is a sequence of smaller units, called bases. The DNA bases combine to form genes.

Only Noah, his wife, his three sons, and his three daughters-in-laws were of pure blood.

·         Personal note (TWH) “Hell” here is used differently from where the ground opened up and swallowed Korah and his crew. Here “hell” is Tartarus, a deeper darker place, and it is the only time that it is used in scripture.

·         Strong's Greek 5020 Only 1 Occurrence (ταρταρώσας) tartaroó: to cast into hell

Definition: to cast into hell
Usage: I thrust down to Tartarus or Gehenna.

· In Homers Illiad, he calls it the “Prison of the Titans” and he states, “Tartaros as the great cosmic pit beneath the earth. It is located "as far beneath the house of Haides as from earth the sky lies." (See: https://www.theoi.com/Kosmos/Tartaros.html)

- The word in the Greek, carried that kind of idea.                                                               · “Hell” From the word, “tartaroó (5020)”, properly, send to Tartarus ("Tartaros"). The New Testament uses 5020 (tartaróō) for the netherworld – the place of punishment fit only for demons (I insert what the scripture states…fallen angels or the angels that sinned). Later, Tartaros came to represent eternal punishment for wicked people.

"5020 (tartaróō) is a Greek name for the under-world, especially the abode of the 

damned – hence to cast into hell" (A-S); to send into the subterranean abyss reserved for demons and the dead.

[In Greek mythology, Tartarus was a "place of punishment under the earth, to which, for example, the Titans were sent" (Souter).]

“Chains” From, “seira (4577)” meaning, a chain. To fasten, bind together.

• Personal note (TWH) these beings were being “dragged” from the word, “suró (4951)” - This is not the same binding of Matthew 18:18  Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven …“deó (1210)” to tie, bind. I bind, tie, fasten; I impel, compel; I declare to be prohibited and unlawful.)

John 21:8 And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, 

but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.

• “Dragging” From, “suró (4951)” I draw, drag, force away.

- This same word is used in the Book of Acts concerning Saul and the Church.

Acts 8:3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into {5734} every house, 

and haling men and women committed them to prison.

• “Haling” From, “suró (4951)” I draw, drag, force away.

Acts 14:19 And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who 

persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing 

he had been dead.

Now, Paul who used to be Saul, is experiencing the same thing that he did to the Church according

Acts 8:3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.

• “Drew or haling” From, “suró (4951)” I draw, drag, force away.

- It’s also used to describe Satan taking 1/3 of the angels a.k.a. stars with him.

Revelation 12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast 

them to the earth: and the dragon stood {5758} before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

• “Drew or haling” From, “suró (4951)” I draw, drag, force away.

- So, we see that these angelic beings were dragged away in chains of darkness.

“Of Darkness” From, “zóphos (2217) ” – murky, appalling gloom, referring to darkness so dense and foreboding it is "felt"; (figuratively) apocalyptic, gloomy darkness associated with the nether world bringing its indescribable despair (incredible gloom).

-      The testimony of many people who have died and went to hell confirms “that the darkness is so dense and foreboding it is "felt".

Jude 1:6 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.

2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, 

and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

I noticed that no one answered Question Number 3, is that a rebuke to the Established Church today not properly preparing the Clergy/The Body of Christ?

Concerning B'nai Elohim and Nephilim:

Quotes from Flavius Josephus the Great Historian concerning Giants Generation

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Josephus concerning Giants "For many angels (11- This notion, that the fallen angels were, in some sense, the fathers of the old giants, was the constant opinion of antiquity.) of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants."

"These kings had laid waste all Syria and overthrown the offspring of the giants. And when they were come over against Sodom. . ."

"They told them also, that they found at Hebron the posterity of the giants. Accordingly, these spies, who had seen the land of Canaan, when they perceived that all these difficulties were greater there than they had met with since they came out of Egypt, they were aftrighted at them themselves, and endeavored to affright the multitude also."

"For which reason they removed their camp to Hebron; and when they had taken it, they slew all the inhabitants. There were till then left the race of giants, who had bodies so large, and countenances so entirely different from other men, that they were surprising to the sight, and terrible to the hearing. The bones of these men are still shown to this very day, unlike to any credible relations of other men. Now they
gave this city to the Levites as an extraordinary reward. . "

"A little afterward the king made war against the Philistines; and when he had joined battle with them, and put them to flight, he was left alone, as he was in pursuit of them; and when he was quite tired down, he was seen by one of the enemy, his name was Achmon, the son of Araph, he was one of the sons of the giants. He had a spear, the handle of which weighed three hundred shekels, and a breastplate of chain-work, and a sword. He turned back and ran violently to slay [David] their enemy's king, for he was quite tired out with labor; but Abishai, Joab's brother, appeared on the sudden, and protected the king with his shield, as he lay down, and slew the enemy. Now the multitude were very uneasy at these dangers of the king, and that he was very near to be slain; and the rulers made him swear that he would no more go out with them to battle, lest he should come to some great misfortune by his courage and boldness, and thereby deprive the people of the benefits they now enjoyed by his means, and of those that they might hereafter enjoy by his living a long time among them. "

"When the king heard that the Philistines were gathered together at the city Gazara, he sent an army against them, when Sibbechai the Hittite, one of David's most courageous men, behaved himself so as to deserve great commendation, for he slew many of those that bragged they were the posterity of the giants, and vaunted themselves highly on that account, and thereby was the occasion of victory to the Hebrews."

"They had a man who was six cubits tall and had on each of his feet and hands one more toe and finger than men naturally have. Now the person who was sent against them by David out of his army was Jonathan, the son of Shimea, who fought this man in a single combat, and slew him; and as he was the person who gave the turn to the battle, he gained the greatest reputation for courage therein. This man also vaunted himself to be of the sons of the giants. But after this fight the Philistines made war no more against the Israelites."

From the book: Giants on Record: America's Hidden History, Secrets in the Mounds and the Smithsonian Files

Amos 2:9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his

roots from beneath.

      

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Giants on Record:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/GiantsRecordAmericasHistorySmithsonian/dp/1939149800?asin=0956786510&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

 

 

 

This book examines a possible cover-up initiated by Smithsonian scientists starting in the late 1800s.The origins of “the tall ones” has been shrouded in mystery for centuries, but this book reveals where they came from, why they got so large, and the reason for their downfall, using the latest scientific research, genetic data, native myths, news reports, and ethnological research. This has become one of the most gripping stories of the last few centuries and for the first time the truth of the giants of North America has been revealed. This book also reveals:- How early explorers to America witnessed these giants first-hand, including Sir Francis Drake, John Smith and even some of the early presidents.- Legends and myths that talk of cannibalistic, red-haired giants…..

Giants In The Land And Og King Of Bashan, Had A Bed 13 Feet Long:

Deuteronomy 2:20 That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;

21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:

Deuteronomy 3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; 

behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

Verse 11 Holman Christian Standard Bible Only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed was made of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the Ammonites? It is 13 feet six inches long and six feet wide by a standard measure... … Deuteronomy 3:13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, [being] the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, 

which was called the land of giants.

Numbers 13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Ezekiel 31:3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

 

100 Pics That Prove Nephilim Giants Existed:

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The Giant of Kandahar: Here be giants — outlandish tales of the military & the Afghan colossi

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2022/11/01/here-be-giants-outlandish-tales-of-the-military-the-afghan-colossi/

The Giant of Kandahar, who was said to be responsible for an entire patrol going missing, stood a towering 13 feet tall. It sported a shock of flaming red hair, had six fingers on each hand and two rows of teeth for gnashing, thrashing and showcasing a smile that was undeniably dashing.

tales_from_the_gridsquare

https://www.instagram.com/tales_from_the_gridsquare/?hl=en

 

The Angels That Sinned: Three Views:  

·         Personal inserted note (TWH)

Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but 

are as the angels of God in heaven.

- This scripture does not say that the angels are sexless, or that they have no reproductive organs.

- Secondly, in heaven we will be married to Christ.

Revelation 19:7-9 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage 

of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 8 And to her was granted 

that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. 9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed [are] they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
Revelation 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God 

out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Isaiah 54:5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

Ephesians 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, 

or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

The Angels That Sinned: Three Views (continued): 

1) “The Cop Out View” is the excuse to not dig further.

· We are not intended to know any more than what is in this brief statement. The problem with this view is that it stands between verses 5 and 7: all three verses draw upon the familiar Old Testament truths.

The Two Alternative Views Are Uncomfortable For Most People:

2) These Angels that sinned are angels that had to do with the fall of Lucifer who is a super angel.

·         A Cherub is not an angel, it is a very high special category

- The term Angel is used in a very broad generic sense

- But I think we generally wouldn't be surprised if you could prove that the scripture also used the term Angel in the sense of a created being with some very, very substantial powers.

- But there's a particular Angel that causes us a lot of problems in the scriptures, and there are two passages that give us some understanding of who this creature is.

(Isaiah 14:12-17; Ezekiel 28:12-19). These scriptures are multiples of seven.

· Remember that the chapters and verses were added in the 15^th century. I love to see these ancient documents that people find the Acho volume and others, they quote scripture by chapter and verse that proport to be in the 1st century. Well, this is kind of hard to explain, because chapters and verses didn’t come until later.

• Both passages have a strange attribute, in both cases the prophet is addressing a local real live tangible king. In Isaiah’s case he's talking to and about the king of Babylon. But as he gets wrapped up in that subject a place in the discourse occurs where it is obvious that his actual target or subject goes far beyond a human personage. And what he is obviously doing is addressing the spiritual power behind the political king.

• Because when we get to verse 12 in this passage without any real warning Isaiah is shifting gears and he is suddenly talking about something quite different.

• And from verse 12 to verse 17 it is almost like an insert, what parenthesis in which the Holy Spirit is speaking through Isaiah addressing the power behind the king of Babylon.

Isaiah 14:12-17 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

• Lucifer, this is where we get his original title.

• Personal inserted note (TWH)

“Lucifer” From, “helel (1966)” meaning, a shining one.

Strong's Hebrew 1966 only 1 Occurrence  

Phonetic Spelling: (hay-lale'). From halal (in the sense of brightness); the morning-star -- lucifer.

• “Halal” From, “halal (1984)”, meaning, to shine. Isaiah 13:10; — flash forth light, of heavenly bodies, also of crocodile עֲטִישֹׁתָיו תָּ֫הֶל אוֺר Job 41:10 his sneezings flash forth light (shining water-drops). formula of worship; Syriac Pa`el   cecinit, laudavit; compare Late Hebrew הִלּוּל praise, הַלֵּל id., Hallel (Psalm 113-118).

A primitive root; to be clear (orig. Of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence, to make a show, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively, to celebrate; also to stultify -- (make) boast (self), celebrate, commend, (deal, make), fool(- ish, -ly), glory, give (light), be (make, feign self) mad (against), give in marriage, (sing, be worthy of) praise, rage, renowned, shine.

Job 41:10 Berean Study Bible No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?

• Kal-El (“Halal”), the “Kryptonian” name of Superman a.k.a. Clark Kent. In Kryptonian, “El” means “Child” and “Kal” means “star”. So, the name Kal-El means “Child of the Stars” or “Star Child”

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Isaiah 14:12-17 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

· Lucifer, a.k.a., helel is fallen from heaven, something occurred to put him in disgrace.

· The source of his error is there are five “I will” statements.

· Lucifer was the number one angelic being, he was in charge.

13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne 

above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

· The problem started in his heart, with him wanting to be worshiped.

15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

· Now this is a forecast. The prophet Isaiah is saying here, you Lucifer who fell through pride will be brought down.

· This verse is yet future verse 16

16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

· Jeremiah 4:23 “the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void;”

17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened 

not the house of his prisoners?

• Jeremiah 4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. 24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. 25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. 26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.

• “the world as a wilderness”

Revelation 18:13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine,

and oil, and fineflour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and 

slaves, and souls of men.

Why The Souls Of Men and Why Are They Kept Prisoner And How?

• “Souls of Men” Souls from, “psuché (5590)” breath, the soul. psyxḗ (from psyxō, "to breathe, blow" which is the root of the English words "psyche," "psychology") – soul 

(psyche); a person's distinct identity (unique personhood), i.e., individual personality.

5590 (psyxē) corresponds exactly to the Old Testament 5315 /phágō ("soul"). The soul is the direct aftermath of God breathing (blowing) His gift of life into a person, making them an ensouled being.

• I have listened to many testimonies over the years of Ex-Satanists, witches, warlocks, sorcerers, S.R.A. (Satanic Ritual Abuse) victims, and others who state, that the soul can be fragmented and taken to different prisons/places where they are held. Places such as hate, guilt, traumas, bitterness, unforgiveness, fear, even darker and more horrific places.

• So, Satan and his emissaries fragment the human soul take those parts to different prisons, so that the person cannot develop their full personality. They now have a print on their life and now they take on a false personality, they also take on the personality of the demons inhabiting that individual. And in turn these fragmented personality soul parts never have the chance to be what the Lord initially intended for that person to be, they never develop unless that person is born-again and restored.

• Once you give your life to Jesus, they state that you have to go through deliverance and healing for the restoration of your soul.

Chuck Missler’s wife Nancy Missler explains this in such a beautiful way.

Reflections of His Image Where Does Self Life Come From? Nans Corner:

by Nancy Missler • October 1, 2007

https://www.khouse.org/articles/2007/739/

• Scripture tells us that when we became “born again,” we not only received a new spirit and a new heart, but also a new willpower. But our soul and body are not changed, 

not renewed and not regenerated. In other words, they remain the same. So, “self-life” comes from the hurts, the resentments, the doubts, the pride, the bitterness and all the other things that we have never properly dealt with, but have simply stuffed and buried in our secret, hidden chambers which are still a part of our soul.

• “Self-life” is triggered when we choose to follow what this buried debris is telling us to do over what God is prompting us to do. Everything we think, say, and do (good and bad) is stored in these secret, hidden chambers deep within us. God designed the sanctification process to teach us how to recognize this “self-life,” how to deal with it and then, how to allow God’s Life from our hearts to come forth. Sanctification is simply the process of restoring the image of Christ in us (Romans 8:29). Many of us, however, have never learned the cleansing steps needed to be sanctified and, instead, have just pushed down and buried much of our pain. Thus, we have given the enemy many footholds in our soul.

• Our bodies are the “vehicles” (or the carriers) for the expression of God’s Life. In other words, we need a soul in order to express life and we need a body in order to carry that soul. Thus, our souls and our bodies really cannot be separated. Together they are known as “the flesh.”

• Therefore, we can be Christians all of our lives, yet because we continue to make fleshly choices (emotional choices to follow our hurts and pain), no one will ever see Christ’s Life in us. His Life will be quenched in our hearts, and no one will ever see the difference between our lives and our neighbors down the street who don’t even know the Lord.

• This is exactly what a “hypocrite” looks like. This is a Christian who “says” all the right things but whose “actions” don’t match his words. He says he is a Christian, and yet his life shows something totally different. He says that Jesus is the answer, but his life doesn’t prove it. This is one of the reasons why the Christian body is having such a difficult time these days. Many of us have become hypocrites living two lives. Jesus’ Life is in our hearts, but self-life is what is shown from our souls.

                                                                      

• This is what John 7:38 is referring to when it says, “He that believeth on Me, as the

Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” Unfortunately, this outflowing is not a one-time event. It’s a moment-by-moment choice to be filled with His Spirit and to let it flow outward. Ephesians 5:17-18 expresses it this way: “Be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is...be filled with the Spirit [all day long, every day].”….(There is more on this subject if you want to read) …

• “Chariots” Of Latin origin; a “rheda (4480)” i.e. Four-wheeled carriage (wagon for riding) -- chariot. Mainly cars.

Abduction Cases:

Alien Resistance:

http://www.alienresistance.org/ce4testimonies.htm  

Over 100 Online Testimonies that Alien Abductions
Can Be Stopped and Can Be Terminated as a Life Pattern - In the Name and Authority of Jesus Christ.
The Most Powerful Evidence in the World Today Showing the
True Nature of the Entities Behind the UFO / Alien Abduction Phenomenon
WRITTEN TESTIMONIES:

Kathy L.	Lindsey	Michael	Mark	Karen
Nicole	Max	Kelly	Nick	Christopher
Anonymous 1	Sue	Joel	Wade	Jason

…. And more

MOST SHOCKING ALIEN ABDUCTION of Corina Saebels

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs122/1107177002582/archive/1114747740826.html

Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Episode 126: Taken - Interview with Karin Wilkinson

https://bible-mysteries.captivate.fm/episode/episode-126-taken-interview-with-karin-wilkinson

Karin Wilkinson Facebook

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• These are the Watchers taking souls and seeds of people.

• Karin Wilkinson was recently featured in LA Marzulli’s latest film “The Coming UFO Invasion”: Exposing the Dragon’s Dark Secrets: Karin is a saved believer in Christ and has had the experience of being abducted multiple times since childhood. She is a wife, mother, and grandmother who worked in the tech industry for many years before retiring to raise her family. Today she has graciously agreed to appear on “Bible Mysteries” to discuss with us her encounters with extraterrestrial beings and what she believes their agenda might be.

• I have been abducted since as early as I can remember, and hundreds of times.  I have experienced sleep paralysis, traveling through windows and walls, etc. When I call on the name of Jesus, the abductions stop. When I was not born again, or fallen away, the abductions continued.

• It is a very isolating life.  It’s not a club you want to be in, and there really is no place for people to go to share, to learn how to stop it, or to just feel accepted.

• I do not subscribe to the ancient alien theory.  We were not seeded by “these elder races.” We are the creation of the one and only Yahweh.  These are not benevolent space brothers; these are demonic entities.

• I was part of a breeding program  I was taken aboard ships and to underground facilities. I saw both humans and non-human entities during my abduction experiences (Greys, tall blondes, insect looking creatures and a lizardy one, for example)

 • I have had a near death experience. I have had an angelic encounter. I have seen UAP/UFOs. I am Rh-negative O blood type and have green eyes. My family were Masons, and I was inducted into the “Rainbow Girls” in my teens. There is a lot of suspicious family history – but that is a conversation for another day.

 • I have suffered emotional and physical ailments and have had surgeries due to the things these evil entities did to me.  A hysterectomy, removal of tumors, and eight spinal reconstruction surgeries, to name a few.

UFO Abductions Compared to Scripture:

UFO Abductions have all of the characteristics recorded in scripture;

1.    The actual abductions have the same characteristics as Luke 4:5

Luke 4:5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

High Quality, Realistic Cgi Animation Of An Alien Abduction s

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The abductees are physically taken from their home, car or from some obscure location, sometimes they are floated from inside of their homes through a window onto a craft.

2.    The entities match the description of Revelation 16:13

Revelation 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

“Three Unclean Spirits Like Frogs”

https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-4177771-aliens

• “Unclean” From the word, “akathartos (169)” unclean, impure. (an adjective, derived from 1 /A "not" and 2513 /katharós, "clean, purged") – properly, not pure (because 

mixed), i.e. adulterated with "a wrong mix" and hence "unclean" (because tainted by sin). The antonym, 2508 /kathaírō ("clean"), means "free from wrong mixture" (unadulterated, unmixed). These beings are basically “hybrids” of frogs and human D.N.A.

• “Like” From the word, “homoios (3664)” like, resembling, the same as. like, similar to, resembling, of equal rank.

From the base of homou; similar (in appearance or character) -- like, + manner.

Why Are They Doing This?

Revelation 16:14 Young's Literal Translation for they are spirits of demons, doing signs which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to bring them together to the battle of that great day of God the Almighty;—

• Satan is creating an army of humans (witches, warlocks, Satanists, sorcerers, etc., as well as hybrid beings to gather them together to prepare them for the great Armageddon War.

But How Is He Going To Gather Them All To That One Spot?

Revelation 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven 

heads and ten horns.. … 12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which 

have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. 13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

• “One Mind” From the word, “gnómé (1106)” to come to know, recognize, perceive. 

A prolonged form of a primary verb; to "know" (absolutely) in a great variety of applications and with many implications (as follow, with others not thus clearly expressed) -- allow, be aware (of), feel, (have) know(-ledge), perceived, be resolved, can speak, be sure, understand.

• I’m certain that cell phones, remote viewing, other means of communication, and extra-sensory perception, such as telepathy, etc., are being used here. Many uninformed Christians are blinded to this fact and don’t even believe in such demonic phenomenon, but it is going on all around them, and they have no knowledge of it.

• It seems to be world-wide, and because born-again Christians have the mind of “Christ”, the world has the mind of the “Beast.”

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected

knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

• “Knowledge” From the word, “death (1847)” concern, know, knowledge, premeditation, skill, truth, unintentionally*, what. Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge 

shall be increased.

• Many Christians have no answer for the question, “What are these aliens and where do they come from?” They will tell you, “Shouldn’t we be telling them about Jesus?” My response is yes, but be prepared to answer in every area, or they will think that you are not very smart in other matters and will not seek you out for answers. We need to be a source of answers for the or else there will be an unanswered biased directed towards the Bible, proving in their minds that the Bible has no relevant answers for todays society concerning this subject.

Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore 

wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

“Wise” From, “phrónimos (5429)” (an adjective, derived from 5424 /phrḗn, "personal perspective regulating outward behavior," and the root of the English term "diaphragm" which controls key body functions from the inside out) – properly, "how we size things up," reflecting our personal ("visceral") opinions, i.e. what we consider "savvy" (smart). This always roots to our personal perspective ("inner outlook") which regulates our definition of being "shrewd," i.e., reflects personal mind-set (insight).

1. a. knowledge, perception, Isaiah 1:3 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.

of prophetic knowledge, especially knowledge with moral quality, knowledge possessed by God,

2 especially in Wisdom Literature = discernment, understanding, wisdom:

Look the word “Yada” up, it is really revealing. From yada'; knowledge -- cunning, (ig-)norantly, know(-ledge), (un-)awares (wittingly).

• The Occultists and the false teachers who are embedded within the Churches (unbeknown to many Christians) are spoon feeding many with dead, lifeless theology to continue to push their own agenda of … wait for it …The Theory of Evolution!

• If the supernatural occurrences that are recorded in the Biblical teaching were excepted then theory of Evolution and many other theories would be debunked, and many more souls would come into the kingdom of God.

Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but 

inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather 

grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

• The Roman Catholic Church and her teachings have infiltrated most of so-called Christian Churches today.

Revelation 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome 

them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, 

and chosen, and faithful.

• The princes of these kingdoms, and their subjects, become, in time, of one religion, and one mind.

Ephesians 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, 

whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

• I do believe that the Remnant Church is maturing, and immaturity is falling off at a phenomenal rate. But many who claim to be Christians and deny the clear teaching of scripture and simply swallow everything that their pastors are feeding them without searching the scriptures for themselves are at war with the word of God and Spirit of God.

• They are more concerned with how they feel rather than facts concerning clear Bible teachings.

Daniel 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: 

but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.

• These are believers who spend time in deep prayer in communion with the Lord and Bible Study. They will be strengthened in their faith and the scriptures will be life to them and their faith will be empowered by Holy Spirit.

3D Cgi Vfx Close-Up Of Three Classic Roswell Style Grey Aliens On A Sepia

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3.    The abductees are basically raped and are not wedded

Alien Abductions Woman

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Alien Abduction Of A Man

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Daniel 2:43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron 

is not mixed with clay.

• “… But They Shall Not Cleave One To Another …”

• “Cleave” From the word, “debeq (1693)” to cling Strong's Hebrew 1693  there is only 1 Occurrence of this word

Original Word: דְבַק Part of Speech: Verb, Transliteration: debeq, Phonetic Spelling: 

(deb-ak'), Definition: to cling

a.    figurative of loyalty, affection etc., sometimes with idea of physical proximity retained, followed by בְּ Genesis 2:24 … (J; man to wife), etc. They are not clinging together as man to wife matrimonially.

b.    Soul ties only.

Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

• “Cleave” From the word, “dabaq (1692)” to cling, cleave, keep close. Definition: to cling, cleave, keep close. A primitive root; properly, to impinge, i.e. Cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit -- abide fast, cleave (fast together), follow close (hard after), be joined (together), keep (fast), overtake, pursue hard, stick, take.

Origin and Fall of Lucifer:

• Between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2?

Genesis 1:1-2 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

“Was” From, “hayah (1961)”, meaning, to fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root (compare hava'); to exist, i.e., Be or become, come to pass …

“Without Form” From, “tohu (8414)”, meaning to be formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness. 1 formlessness, of primaeval earth Genesis 1:2 (P), of land reduced to primaeval chaos Jeremiah 4:23 ׳קַותֿֿ ("" אַבְנֵי בֹהוּ), Isaiah 45:18 בְרָאָהּ ׳לֹא ת ("" לָשֶׁבֶת יְצָרָתּ); Isaiah 24:10 ׳קִרְיַתאתּ city of chaos (of ruined city); = nothingness, empty space, Job 26:7 תֹּלֶה אֶרֶץ ׳עַלתּֿ; of empty, trackless waste Deuteronomy 32:10 ("" מִדְבָּר), Job 6:18; Job 12:24 = Psalm 107:40.

“Void” From, “bohu (922)”, meaning emptiness. always with תֹּהוּ q. v.; — תֹּהוּ וָבֹהוּ Genesis 1:2 of primeval earth; Jeremiah 4:23 of earth under judgment of ׳י; קַותֿֿהֹוּ וְאַבְנֵי בֹהוּ Isaiah 34:11, the line of wasteness and the stones of emptiness, i.e. plummets, employed, not as usual for building, but for destroying walls. From an unused root (meaning to be empty); a vacuity, i.e. (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin -- emptiness, void.

Verse 2 Should Read Like This:

Genesis 1:2 And the earth became without formless,  void and empty; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

· Many credible theologians believe that this event occurred between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.

- There's the possibility of an enormous interval of time between verses 1:1 and 1:2 better known as the “Gap Theory”

Isaiah 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I [am] the LORD; and [there is] none else.

Isaiah 45:18 Berean Study Bible
For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens— He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

Isaiah 45:18 New American Standard Bible
For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited), "I am the LORD, and there is none else.

Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

• Two Groups: Morning Stars and Sons of God:

1. Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

2. Judges 5:20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

A Superior Evil Spirit Controls The King Of Tyrus:

Ezekiel 28:12-19 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, 

the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

This Magnificent Creature Was In The Garden Of Eden Before Adam And Eve:

Proverbs 18:13 He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame

unto him. (To answer before listening-- that is folly and shame.)

• Yeshua has made His Body Magnificent, His Beautiful Church Living Stones:

1 Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

• We are living, pulsating, vibrant stones, of various shapes, colors, frequencies, and vibrations He has caused us to possess “real life” that is found only in Him. Romans 9:33; of Christians: as, living stones of which the temple of God is built, 1 Peter 2:5; of the truths with which, as with building materials, a teacher builds Christians up in wisdom,  costly stones, 1 Corinthians 3:12.

2 Corinthians 3:7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, 

was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

• The stones tablets containing the commandments were good stones, but they were fading away, because a better corner stone was coming to take it’s place. Lifting the death and condemnation from anyone who would turn to Him. And in receiving Him, we become a portion of the kingdom of God, a building consisting of living stones created anew.

14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

Human Trafficking; Lucifer, the Whore, and the Beast Monday, July 29, 2013

http://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2013/07/human-trafficking-lucifer-whore-and.html

When we look at chapter 28 of Ezekiel we see the parallel of satan to the king of Tyre. The king of Tyre is probably a veiled look at satan, and the first and second half of the chapter are very much the same.  While the king of Tyre may have been a person influenced by satan, both the king and satan claim to be God, both are killed and thrown to hell and both trafficked God’s people.  

Ezek 28:5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick [7404] hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:KJV

Ezek 28:16 By the multitude of thy merchandise [7404] they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.KJV                                                                                                          Ezekiel 28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick [7404]; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.KJV

Using human beings for profit is truly our world system.  Slavery, migrant workers, sexual prostitution, child workers, corporate suits, blue collar, white collar, almost everyone is enslaved. But this does not happen in commerce only, but also in churches. Lucifer’s sanctuaries were defiled by trafficking. There are a small number of oppressors, but they have designed the world system to serve themselves. While satan did that to the sons of God and it sped up his downward spiral to want to be God and sit in the place of God, people do this to humans today, and also sit it the place of God, lording over the masses.  While the creator did not create us to be enslaved to overlords, we are in fact slaves in this world. Another comparison from Ezekiel 27 of the king of Tyre and satan, is in the root word of merchandising.  … Ezek 27:1-3 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant [7402] of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.KJV

OT:7402 rakal (raw-kal'); a primitive root; to travel for trading: KJV - (spice) merchant.(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright © 1994, 2003, 2006 Biblesoft, Inc. and International Bible Translators, Inc.)

 

I find it interesting that merchandising, or trafficking, whether spices, foods, or people, makes one believe they are perfectly beautiful.  Their power is deceiving, as well as the material adornment. This world system will be done away with in the future.   

 

Rev 18:12-13 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.KJV

 

As we read from Revelation, the selling of slaves and the souls of men are counted among Babylon’s merchandise. Not only are people being physically sold, just like the Israelites were, people were selling themselves. This tells us that Babylon is seducing people into selling their souls, not just simply enslaving non willing participants, but deceiving people into giving away their own soul to the devil.  No one can take the soul out of a person.  No one can dissect it in a laboratory.  Only the word of God can divide soul and spirit.  (Heb 4:12) While the devil cannot have one’s spirit, the devil can be given one’s soul/life.  This is a conscious choice.  Therefore the lure of riches and beauty sway people to give their souls to the devil, for gain on earth. Yet that is such a temporal thing.

 

15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, 

and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: 

and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity 

of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour 

thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold 

thee.

19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.

What Does UFO’s, Cattle Mutilation, and Hybrids Have In Common?:

Blood is congealed Light and Scientists create matter directly from light.

At Scitechdaily:

Scientists Generate Matter Directly From Light – Physics Phenomena Predicted More Than 80 Years Ago

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-generate-matter-directly-from-light-physics-phenomena-predicted-more-than-80-years-ago/  

What is the big deal in knowing that blood is congealed light?

A.    Over 50 million abortions is a lot of spiritual currency in the kingdom of darkness

B.    Let your light so shine; ye are children of light; God is Light and there is no darkness in Him … etc

C.     

1.    Bovine blood can be used in humans

If bovine blood can be used to create human hybrids, this changes the game, and the “Days of Noah” are upon us. Genesis 3:15, Daniel 2;43;

2.    UFO Abductions, women carrying after three months the fetus is gone

3.    Women claim to have seen their hybrid children who are without a soul and evil

4.    Black Eyed Children

· The Prince of Tyre = Ittiobalus (Josephus); The King of Tyre was superhuman (in Eden?)!

· A Different death was predicted (“merchandise” = to traffic; to slander).

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A.    Ezekiel 28:16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: … O covering cherub …

B.    Ezekiel 28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; …

C.    Isaiah 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,… which didst weaken the nations!

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D.   Isaiah 14:17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

E.    Revelation 18:12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, … 13 … wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.                                           

• This is where the 50 million plus abortions and other sacrifices can be added … (souls of men) not just in America, but worldwide.

When We Fall, We Go Back To Our Old Haunts/Way, So Do These Entities:

2 Peter 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

F.     Matthew 12: 43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation

G.    Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. … 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: (See: Isaiah 14:17) He wants more prisoners.

The Death of Adam and Eve:

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Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were

naked;

The enemy of humanity sent mankind back to the dust of the earth, instead of the enemy being under the feet of those who have the birthright to subdue the earth; man is willingly giving his authority over to the enemy.

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He Was A Murderer From The Beginning:

John 8:40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I

have heard of God:

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Goals (Revelation 12:1-6): One-third of the angels fell with him (Revelation 12:4).

The Answer To All Of This Is Yeshua/Jesus:

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Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Destiny (Matthew 25:41; 12:24-27): Neither Satan’s demons nor angels are now bound (Revelation 12:9; Matthew 10:8). Some are which Jude talks about. Two governing bodies are to be punished (Isaiah 24:21).

3) Genesis 6:1-4: LXX: B’nai Elohim = “Angels of God.” Mentioned four times in the Old Testament (Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7).

The Nephilim, The Book of Giants, The Book of Enoch:   Nephilim_Giants_20.jpg

DEAD SEA SCROLLS TEXTS - The Book of Giants

http://www.gnosis.org/library/dss/dss_book_of_giants.htm

The Book of the Giants - By W. B. HENNING

https://sacred-texts.com/chr/giants/giants.htm

The Book of Enoch - tr. by R.H. Charles [1917]

https://sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/index.htm

· Genesis 6 indicates that the “sons of God” (B’nai Elohim) took wives of the “daughters of men,” which gave birth to the “Nephilim.” What on earth was going on?

· The B’nai Elohim is a term that refers to angels. It occurs four times in the Old Testament and is rendered “Angels of God” in the ancient Septuagint translation. The intrusion of certain angels into the human family resulted in unnatural offspring termed Nephilim, which derives from the Hebrew naphal (to fall), or the Fallen Ones.

· (The Greek Septuagint renders this term gigantes, which actually means “earthborn.” This is often misunderstood to mean “giants” — which they also happen to have been, incidentally.)

· The “Line of Seth?” The early church viewed the B’nai Elohim as angels up through the late fourth century: Justin, Athenagoras, Cyprian, Eusebius, et al. (also Josephus, Philo, Judeaus, and the Apocrypha regard this traditional view). Celsus and Julian the Apostate exploited the older common belief to attack Christianity. Cyril of Alexandria, in his reply, repudiated the orthodox position. Julius Africanus (a contemporary of Origen) intro- duced the theory that the “sons of God” simply referred to the genealogical line of Seth, which was committed to preserving the true worship of God. Seemingly more appealing, the “Sethite theory” prevailed into the Medieval Church, and many still hold this view. This view, however, has several serious problems. There is no indication that the Sethites were distinguished for piety; they were not exempted from the charge of general wickedness which brought on the flood. In fact, Seth’s son Enosh was the one who introduced apostasy to that world. This is masked by a mistranslation of Genesis 4:25, which should read “...then men began to profane the name of the Lord.” Furthermore, when the faithful marry the unfaithful, they do not give birth to unnatural offspring! And the “daughters of men” were not differentiated with regard to the Flood. All were lost.

· (Incidentally, the Nephilim didn’t completely end with the flood. Genesis 6:4 mentions, “...and also after that....” We find the sons of Anak, the Anakim, later in the Old Testament.) Anakim.

· The bedstead of one of them was 13 feet long (Deuteronomy 3:11). Compared to them the men of Israel were “as grasshoppers.” (Numbers 13:3; Amos 2:9).

[Why does Israel refer to their second appearance as Nephilim (fallen ones)?] Goliath and his four brothers were sons of Anak.

2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, 

and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

2 Peter 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

· Tartarus = A pit of darkness in the unseen world; Greek term for dark abode of woe. Homer’s Iliad: “as far below Hades as the earth is below heaven...”

• “And” From “kai (2532)” meaning, and, even, also, namely. (the most common New Testament conjunction, used over 9,000 times) – and (also), very often, moreover, even, 

indeed (the context  determines the exact sense).

[After 2532 (kaí), the most common word in the Greek New Testament is the definite

article ("the"). 2532 (kaí) is never adversative, i.e., it never means "however" ("but") – unlike the principal conjunction (waw) in Old Testament Hebrew (G. Archer).]

The Usage of “And” in This Case:

Matthew 1:2 begat Judas and his brethren; Matthew 1:3 begat Phares and Zara of; Matthew 1:23 shall be with child, and shall bring forth; … a son, and they shall call; Matthew 2:4 the chief priests and scribes; etc.

• So, the word, “and” ties these scriptures together as one in explaining why the angels were cast down to Tartarus. By way of saying, “And spared not the old world”

Why Was the Old World Not Spared?

• The Human Genome, the human D.N.A. had become corrupted.

• A genome is the genetic material that makes up a living organism. It is contained in chromosomes, which are the tiny threadlike structures inside cells. Chromosomes are made from a chemical substance called DNA, and DNA is a sequence of smaller units, called bases. The DNA bases combine to form genes.

Only Noah, his wife, his three sons, and his three daughters-in-laws were of pure blood.

· In Homers Illiad, he calls it the “Prison of the Titans” and he states, “Tartaros as the great cosmic pit beneath the earth. It is located "as far beneath the house of Haides as from earth the sky lies." (See: https://www.theoi.com/Kosmos/Tartaros.html)

- The word in the Greek, carried that kind of idea.                                                               · “Hell” From the word, “tartaroó (5020)”, properly, send to Tartarus ("Tartaros"). The New Testament uses 5020 (tartaróō) for the netherworld – the place of punishment fit only for demons (I insert what the scripture states…fallen angels or the angels that sinned). Later, Tartaros came to represent eternal punishment for wicked people.

"5020 (tartaróō) is a Greek name for the under-world, especially the abode of the 

damned – hence to cast into hell" (A-S); to send into the subterranean abyss reserved for demons and the dead.

[In Greek mythology, Tartarus was a "place of punishment under the earth, to which, for example, the Titans were sent" (Souter).]

- So, we see that these angelic beings were dragged away in chains of darkness.       

• “Of Darkness” From, “zóphos (2217) ” – murky, appalling gloom, referring to darkness so dense and foreboding it is "felt"; (figuratively) apocalyptic, gloomy darkness 

associated with the nether world bringing its indescribable despair (incredible gloom).

- The testimony of many people who have died and went to hell confirms “that the darkness is so dense and foreboding it is "felt".

 

“Hell”, From, “tartaroó (5020)” meaning, to cast into hell. properly, send to Tartarus 

("Tartaros"). The New Testament uses 5020 (tartaróō) for the netherworld – the place of 

punishment fit only for demons. Later, Tartaros came to represent eternal punishment 

for wicked people.

"5020 (tartaróō) is a Greek name for the under-world, especially the abode of the 

damned – hence to cast them into hell" (A-S); to send into the subterranean abyss 

reserved for demons and the dead.

· In Greek mythology, Tartarus was a "place of punishment under the earth, to which, for example, the Titans were sent"

The language of Jude 7 seems to require the same view of Jude 6:

· “...strange flesh...” meaning, another of a different kind. 

“Strange” From, “héteros (2087)” – another of a different kind. 2087 /héteros ("another 

but distinct in kind") stands in contrast to 243 /állos ("another of the same kind"). 2087 

/héteros ("another of a different quality") emphasizes it is qualitatively different from its counterpart (comparison).

[2087 (héteros) sometimes refers to "another" of a different class group or type.]

Nature of Angels:

· There is a great deal revealed in the Bible about angels.

· They can appear in human form (Genesis 19:5, 10, 16), they spoke as men, took men by the hand, even ate men’s food (Genesis 18:8; 19:3, 16).

· They are capable of direct physical combat (death of the firstborn in Exodus 12, Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19, and the 185,000 troops slaughtered in 2 Kings 19:35), and some are the principal forces behind the world powers (Daniel 10).

· Angels don’t marry, at least in heaven (Matthew 22:30), and are apparently capable of much mischief.

Are Demons Angels? (Acts 23:9; Revelation 9:1, 2,10)

· Not all are bound; not all are free. Demons tend to seek embodiment.

· They are aware of their destiny (Luke 8:26). Two thousand swine were involved in Mark 5:1-20; Matthew 8:28-34. Why did they seek embodiment in a herd of swine? Why did the Lord acquiesce? Demons seem to be different from angels—if this is so, then where did the demons come from?

Azazel:

Trent (Blurry Creatures): His name was Azazel, he showed me his beginnings and how his origins began and everything, so he said that his job was to teach mankind how to do warfare. And then he said he's been bound for the whole time. These are the fallen angels that have been imprisoned underground. …

Leviticus 16:8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat (Azazel).… 10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, [and] to let him go for a scapegoat (Azazel) into the wilderness. 

“Scapegoat” From “azazel (5799)” meaning, entire removal. From ez and 'azal; goat of departure; the scapegoat -- scapegoat.

אזֵל noun [masculine] entire removal (reduplicated intensive (Ges^{§ 30} n. Sta^{§ 124 a}), abstract, √ [עזל] = Arabic   remove, see Bähr^{Symb. ii. 668} Win^{ii. 659 ff.} Me Schenkel^{BL. i. 256}; > most, proper name of spirit haunting desert, Thes Di Dr^{Hastings, DB} 

[a fallen angel, Leviticus 16:8ff. being late, according to Che^{ZAW xv (1895), 153 ff., Ency. Bib.}, who derives from עזזאֿל; compare Benz^{Ency. Bib.}], as in Jewish angelology, where probably based on interpret. of Leviticus 16:8ff.; name not elsewhere); — ׳ע Leviticus 16:8,10 (twice in verse); Leviticus 16:26 in ritual of Day of Atonement, = entire removal of sin and guilt from sacred places into desert on back of goat, symbol of entire forgiveness.

Jude Session 3 (Verse 6 Continued) - Chuck Missler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPTBk12dlCI&t=655s

Overview:

• Verses 5, 6, 7 Three historical examples of corporate punishment.

• Verse 5 deals with the Nation of Israel in the Wilderness

• Verse 7 deals with Sodom and Gomorrah

• Verse 6 -  When did this take place?

- What lessons does the Holy Spirit desire to convey to the believer?

Jude 1:6 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.

• And if you are the average Bible student you will say what is that all about? Because Jude gives it the back of his hands as though you remember this of course.

- There is another comparable passage in Second Peter.

2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

• Peter also makes an allusion the same as Jude, to an event that the writers in each case presumed that you know.

The Angels That Sinned: Three Views: 

1) “The Cop Out View” is the excuse to not dig further.

· We are not intended to know any more than what is in this brief statement. The problem with this view is that it stands between verses 5 and 7: all three verses draw upon the familiar Old Testament truths.

The Two Alternative Views Are Uncomfortable For Most People:

2) These Angels that sinned are angels that had to do with the fall of Lucifer who is a super angel.

• A Cherub is not an angel, it is a very high special category

- The term Angel is used in a very broad generic sense

- But I think we generally wouldn't be surprised if you could prove that the scripture also used the term Angel in the sense of a created being with some very, very substantial powers.

- But there's a particular Angel that causes us a lot of attention in the scriptures, and there are two passages that give us some understanding of who this creature is.

(Isaiah 14:12-17; Ezekiel 28:12-19). These scriptures are multiples of seven.

· Remember that the chapters and verses were added in the 15^th century. I love to see these ancient documents that people find the Acho volume and others, they quote scripture by chapter and verse that proport to be in the 1st century. Well, this is kind of hard to explain, because chapters and verses didn’t come until later.

• Both passages have a strange attribute, in both cases the prophet is addressing a local real live tangible king. In Isaiah’s case he's talking to and about the king of Babylon. But as he gets wrapped up in that subject a place in the discourse occurs where it is obvious that his actual target or subject goes far beyond a human personage. And what he is obviously doing is addressing the spiritual power behind the political king.

• Because when we get to verse 12 in this passage without any real warning Isaiah is shifting gears and he is suddenly talking about something quite different.

• And from verse 12 to verse 17 it is almost like an insert, what parenthesis in which the Holy Spirit is speaking through Isaiah addressing the power behind the king of Babylon.

Isaiah 14:12-17 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

• Lucifer, this is where we get his original title.

- But he fell, he's fallen from heaven, and something occurred to put him in disgrace, but then we get into verse 13 and 14 and we find the source of this error there are five “I will” statements.

- This Lucifer was the number one angel, we’ll find that in another passage,  he was in charge anyway verse 13.

Isaiah 14:13-14 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most

High.

• That's Satan’s ambition to be worshipped, you get the message very powerful but still not #1. And he aspired apparently in some strange time, in some strange way a rebellion which we’ll look at shortly.

Isaiah 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

• Now, this is forecast Isaiah is saying here, “You Lucifer who failed through pride shall be brought down. From 16 is an interesting one this is yet future.

Isaiah 14:16  They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17 That  made 

the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house 

of his prisoners?

• Now as you could probably guess behind each phrase there are acres of theological commentary of what that might mean.

Origin and Fall of Lucifer:

• There are those who believe that this whole event occurred sometime between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.

- Possibility of enormous interval. There is linguistic reasons to recognize that an enormous interval of time may have transpired between verse 1:1 and 1:2 this is called the Gap Theory.

- And the earth was = (became) without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

And the verb (was) here in the Hebrew is a transitive verb implying action, and that the earth wasn't originally but became without form and void. And this gets intensified because of Isaiah 45:18,

Isaiah 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed 

the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

• Another translation says that God did not create it to be empty, (tohuw = formless) (bohuw = void) but formed it to be inhabited.

Isaiah 45:18 Berean Study Bible
For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens— He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

• So, on this apparent discrepancy occurs the possibility that there is an enormous interval between verse 1:1 and 1:2 this is called the Gap Theory.

Gap Theory:

• There are aspects of “Gap Theory” that I think are correct but, if you subscribe to the Gap Theory that also probably implies all kinds of things that you do not ascribe to so be cautious about that. Many people through that small little crack drive trucks through them and come up with all kinds of ideas but I don't want to get into that tonight. We've covered that on the Genesis series you can listen to that on the Genesis tapes.

That's Isaiah 14 and that's a pivotal passage that you should be aware of.

• A comparable passages Ezekiel 28:12-19. Ezekiel in his case is also a prophet dealing with a particular king. I'll use the term prince here because it keeps it straight.

- The Prince of Tyre = Ittiobalus (from historian Flavious Josephus); Josephus tells us his name was Ittiobalus, here spoken to as the Prince of Tyre. But as Ezekiel wraps up his message to the Prince of Tyre, at about verse 11 or 12 he shifts gears.

• And the scope of what he is saying clearly does not fit this human king.

- King of Tyre was superhuman (in Eden?)!

• If you study the whole chapter, you'll find that the Prince of Tyre that is the human ruler gets killed by being pierced through.

• But the king of Tyre is going to be burned, so you recognize that there are two different people or entities involved here. Linguistically here you can see that he's talking about two different people using two different titles. And their destinies are different.

- Different death predicted (“merchandise” = to traffic; to slander).

Ezekiel 28:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 12 Son of man, 

take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord 

GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

• Son of man here is not a title it is a nickname of Ezekiel.

• Ezekiel was just talking to the Prince of Tyre, now he's speaking to the king of Tyre.

“Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty”

• The person that he is talking to is the epitome of Wisdom and Beauty, that's extreme language in fact the expression in the Hebrew is that there can be no more extreme language as this.

13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, 

the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, 

the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

• “Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God”

• “I don't know of any king of Babylon who goes back to Genesis 2.” So, suddenly we realize that there has been a shift in the subject here. The person who is being addressed has been in Eden, the garden of God.

• One thing that should strike you is that the Eden described here doesn't seem to be the Eden described in Genesis chapter 2. Because in Genesis chapter two we tend to visualize it with trees and foliage and terrestrial kind of place.

• This Eden is described in the same vocabulary that we use Post Millennially, of the New Jerusalem and so forth. Part of what overlays this whole study, Acts 3 speaks of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ as the time of the restitution of all things. Restitution meaning, put back like it used to be. Put back like Eden could be, maybe it's a different Eden than you and I think of a Pre-Fall Eden.

• And so, when we read Revelation 22 and we talk about new Jerusalem, and foundations. The whole hyperspace that you and I probably have no capacity to deal with precious stones may be just their way vocabulary wise, of talking about light. Or talking about a dimensionality that goes beyond our three-dimensional physics as we think of it.

• But also, this person was in Eden, and he was big news, “perfect” but, he was created another side of this is don’t forget, he is not some kind of super god. He may be superhuman, but he is created, as fantastic as he may be or was at one time, he is still a created being. This is easy to forget there is a popular book in demonology called, “Between Christ and Satan” by Kurt Koch, this is a tragic title because it implies equality.

• Christ is not a created being (John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.) Satan was created.

Ezekiel 28:14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

• “Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth” that’s clumsy language saying that he was appointed to office, what office? In other words he was in charge of everything, we

would say it differently, but the King James translators say, that “he is the anointed cherub that covereth.” Another way of saying that he was in charge.

- Appointed to office that she was in charge!

- He is a cherub which is the …

- Most powerful kind of angel Isaiah 6 and Revelation 4

Inserted Note: Isaiah 6 is describing Seraphs

Cherubs Are An Order of Angels and Described In Ezekiel 10:14:

Cherubs Have Four Faces Apiece And Four Wings: 

Ezekiel 10:21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

Cherubs Have the Form of a Man’s Hand Under Their Wings:

Ezekiel 10:8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their wings.

Cherubs are Full of Eyes:

Ezekiel 10:12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, 

and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.

Cherubs have four faces:

-      Face of a Cherub, and the second face was the

-      Face of a Man, and the third the

-      Face of a Lion, and the fourth the

-      Face of an Eagle                                                                                             

Ezekiel 10:1 Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head 

of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

Ezekiel 10:2 Berean Study Bible
And the LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in. 3 Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now the cherubim were standing to the south of the temple when the man went in, 

and the cloud filled the inner court. 4 Then the glory of the LORD rose from above

the cherub to the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud, and 

the court was filled with the brightness of the LORD’s glory. …

Ezekiel 10:14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth 

the face of an eagle.

Seraphim Are Serpent Like Beings:

Seraphs have Six Wings:  

Seraphs have Four Different Faces:

-      First beast was like a Lion …

-      Second beast like a Calf …

-      Third beast had a face as a Man …

-      Fourth beast was like a Flying Eagle …

Isaiah 6:2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

Revelation 4:7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and 

the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.

8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, 

which was and is and is to come

• Inserted note: Did Dr. Chuck Missler mean to say seraph instead of cherub?

You know four cherubim that are around the throne of God we find them in Isaiah 6? And in Revelation 4, whenever we see the throne of God, we see these four cherubim and they’re strange creatures. Apparently, Satan was one of those.

15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

• What was the iniquity well if you go back to Isaiah 14 t will tell you. God hates pride that's how the whole thing started.

16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, 

and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: 

and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of 

thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. 19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.  

• Merchandise – Means to “go about” … Trafficking or Slander (Feminine passive participle of rakal; trade (as peddled) -- merchandise, traffic.)

- Satan = slanderer (rakal [רָכַל] verb probably go about, from one to another (for

trade or gossip) (? connected with רגל; compare Arabic   kick a horse, to make him go [? properly use the foot, compare   ?]; Late Hebrew רוֺכֵל, Aramaic רוֺכְלָא,   

trader, Late Hebrew רְכִילוּת slander).

Satan’s Whole Strategy And Goal:

Revelation 12:1-6 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 3 And 

there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having 

seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood

before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. 5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. 6 And the woman fled 

into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her 

there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

• Who is the red dragon?

- Defined in verse 9, the devil, Satan

Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, 

and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his 

angels were cast out with him.

- This is where we understand where Satan rebelled, and he was thrown out.

- His angels rebelled and were cast out with him.

• Ezekiel 28, Isaiah 14, and Revelation 12 these are the three key scriptures

there's obviously more.

• Satan clearly was very powerful at one time, he was perfect at one time, he was in charge, he rebelled a third of the angels apparently were alive with him who blew it and they were thrown out.

• So, we know who the red dragon is at this point.

• Who is the woman?

- Not the church! the (Church is the virgin bride)

- Many commentators that are very competent commentators would identify the woman as the church.

- Check Smith puts it if this woman is church, she’s in trouble, because she’s pregnant.

- The Church is uniformly used in the New Testament as a virgin bride, not a one to give birth.

- The woman is identified with the sun, moon, and 12 stars this is not the Zodiac.

• There is only one place where the sun, moon, and 12 stars show up in the scriptures and your principle in the Book of Revelation the entire thing is in code but every code is deciphered somewhere in scripture, the Holy Spirit engineered the Book so it will take you to every other passage within the Bible if you take it exhaustively.

And the only place where you will find the sun, moon, and 12 stars is …

- Joseph’s dreams Genesis 37:9-10 Jacob understood the dream

Genesis 37:9-10 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, 

Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. 10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: 

and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves

to thee to the earth?

• Who is the woman?

- Israel – going back to Eve in the Garden. It's Israel in the sense that she starts with Eve.

- The man child is the “seed of the woman” Genesis 3:15. What woman, Israel in the sense that she doesn’t start with Abraham, Israel in the sense that she starts with the declared war.

- Starting when God declared war on Satan Genesis 3:15

• “I will put enmity between thee and the woman”

• What woman? The woman in Chapter 12 of Revelation

• “and between thy seed and her seed”

• Two seeds

- Predicts The Virgin Birth – proper name Isaiah 7:14

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

• Who is the man child?

- Jesus Christ

- Israel “gives birth” to Jesus Christ

• Israel was ordained from Eve on

- God's plan was to present the Deliverer through her

• His commitment to Adam in the Garden of Eden

• Satan took a third of the angels with him

- They stood before the woman to devour her child

Revelation 12:3-4 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great 

red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: 

and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour 

her child as soon as it was born.

• The whole history in the Bible

- Satan’s plan to thwart the will of God

• It starts in Genesis 3:15 he goes after Eve

• Satan narrow fix focus of attack

- Anti-Semitism is not just racial prejudice it goes much deeper

• Satan’s objective is to thwart the Messiah plan which he attempts to do by attacking Israel

• We have Cain and Abel satanically that was an attempt to get rid of the seed, the seed was Seth. As we go through the scriptures as God reveals more and more of His plan it allows Satan to focus his attack.

• The call of Abraham occurs he doesn't have to mess around with anybody else he can focus on Abraham. Isaac Jacob, as God confirms his covenant. When you become the tribe of Judah all throughout  the scripture you see again and again plot and counter plot.

• You have several occasions where all of the babies were killed, Moses and the infants?  Was that pharaoh? No, it was Satan because he has to thwart the Messianic thread. Go all the way through to Bethlehem, it wasn't Herod slaying the babes it was Satanic, Herod was just an instrument. All through the Kings you find the children who are heirs hidden by someone who attempts to slaughter all the children but always misses one. The point is the concept of anti-Semitism is not just noxious because of racial prejudice, it goes much deeper.

Racial prejudice of any kind I'm sure is an offense to God.

Anti-Semitic ties and trends and so forth go even deeper, as you understand the scriptures you understand that Satan’s objective is to thwart the Messiah plan which he attempts to do by attacking Israel.

Revelation 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

• Verse 5 appears to be historical his - Ascension

• Verse 6 appears to be future pointing to the - Tribulation

• Gap between these virtues versus Church Age

- Appears in Daniel 9:26-27 and Revelation 12:5-6

- Some 1,900 years between verses 5 and 6 so far

- That gap appears 24 times in Scriptures, the number of the church is 24.

- Those of you who have read Daniel 9 are not uncomfortable to allow for the idea of a gap in the timeline.

We call it the Church Age that gap appears between Daniel 9:26-27 and Revelation 12:5-6. There are 1,900 years between verses 5 and 6 so far.

• Used to view that as the ascension of the Lord. But there was a guy by the name of Pember who wrote a book about Genesis and the Earths Earliest Ages. Which blew me away because he sees this differently and I don't know if he's wrong. He says that child is the body of Christ.

• He says that child is the body of Christ

- The Rapture

- It doesn't alter the text because from verse 6 on is the Tribulation.

• The devil's attack on Israel is part of prophecy

- And it climaxes with what the Old Testament calls Jacob Time of Trouble

• Great Tribulation – Daniel

- Jesus quotes from Daniel in the Olivet Discourse, it's in Christ’s quote from the Book of Daniel that that period of time gets its classical label among Bible scholars “The Great Tribulation.”

• Focus of the Tribulation is in Israel

But in that we tend to forget the focus of the tribulation is Israel.

- The more we know about the Holocaust the more we understand their plea “never again.”

- What is coming in the future will make the Holocaust look like a warmup to the real thing.

- Trouble such as the world has never seen until then

• What made the Holocaust possible?

- Philosophy of Nietzsche and others

• The philosophical or religious rationale that Israel deserved punishment

- Fallacies of the church for over 1,900 years

• We will see Christian teachers arguing a theology which main attribute is a prelude to anti-Semitism

- A Sign of the time

• The battle against Israel and Ezekiel 38 will not be won because of help from The United States of America

• When the Soviets invade Israel and 5/6 of them get wiped out, the Lord makes it very clear that it happened by His Hands and not by the power of the United States.

- Sometime before then all nations will turn against Israel

• God will use that battle to show His Hand just as he did in Egypt.

- Israel will still be in unbelief when it happens not observing God's intervention.

- God will keep His promises for His Name’s Sake before the heathens.

Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

Destiny:

Isaiah 24:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of

the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

• Two governing bodies to be punished

1.    “Host of the High Ones that are On High”, you see this punishment doesn't just come on people, but upon the High Ones whoever they are.

• Neither Satan’s demons nor angels are now bound Revelation 12:9; Matthew 10:8 they may have to restrictions, but the point is they are not bound, yet.

• Some are, which Jude is talking about.

• More than just you and I are being redeemed

- Heaven and earth will be cleansed also Isaiah 65:17: Revelation 21:1 … Behold, I see a new heaven and a new earth …

Are Demons Angels?

Now let me point out to you that there are those that make a big distinction between demons and angels.

• Angels apparently have the capability of being embodied by themselves Genesis 19:5, 10, 16. We find angels in human form.

- They spoke as men

- Took people's hand

- Ate food with them

- No necessity to be embodied (there is a special situation in which Satan entered Judas)

• In contrast to that, the demons are a whole other story.

Acts 23:9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part 

arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.

• The concept that that time was that Angels and Demons  

- Were two different things

Luke 8:26-28 And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against 

Galilee. 27 And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, 

which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs. 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud 

voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech 

thee, torment me not.

• That's a shocker because up to this point in the gospels he had not acknowledged his role. So, the personage that was inside of this man recognized something that was beyond the knowledge of the people at that time.

So, this shows that the demons are knowledgeable, this is not something that a cracked pot demented person would say, he has not announced his real role the fact that they

recognized his deity, the Son of God Most High “I beseech thee that thou torment me not.”

• Out of this we know who is

• That they are destined for torment

• And they know that they have a very specific time

Luke 8:29-30 (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For 

oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.) 30 And Jesus asked 

him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered 

into him.

• A Legion is not 1,000 by the away a Roman legion is 6,000 troops.  So, when you say this the first legion, the 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th legions are smaller, that’s the way the Romans organized them. The point is a legion is a lot. The demons in this man ultimately go into a herd of swine do you know how many swine there were? Mark tells us 2,000! That's a large herd.

• I used to be bothered asking myself, “What are they doing for raising swine in a kosher country?” the answer is, it isn’t kosher it’s on the East of the Jordan. They are the Greek cities of the Decapolis there are five cities that were Gentile so, economically you can understand why there would be swine raised at all. You wouldn't expect that in Judea they may have been there too to support the gentile contingency.

Luke 8:31-32 And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into 

the deep.

• “The Deep” From, “abussos (12)” boundless, bottomless. The abyss, unfathomable depth, an especially Jewish conception, the home of the dead and of evil spirits.

• This is one of the passages of the Bible that I do not understand, they do beseech him don’t send us back to the pit. Which is apparently one of the places that he would normally do, he would cast them out and they would go back to the “abussos” apparently for a long time.

Luke 8:32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and 

they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.

• What puzzles me even more is that the Lord agreed to cast them into the herd of swine.

- Maybe to teach us that these things are not psychiatric problems and so forth. People who say that have never attended an exorcism; or they would know better.

Luke 8:33-34 Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.. 34 When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.

• And he obviously becomes unpopular because he upset their economy there.

Are Demons Angels?

• Demons appear to be quite different from angels.

• Where do demons come from?

• Much speculation, without Scriptural basis that are really built from the gaps from what we do understand, there are those who believe that there was a Pre-Adamic creation that was destroyed and judged and that the demons are the disembodies spirits of those entities. There is no scriptural evidence for that, and they place all of this hypothesis between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 that’s part of the Gap Theory that gets way out into the left field.

Now, actually I personally believe there appears to be a hierarchy among the angels.

• Appears to be a hierarchy among the Angels, in the Old Testament there are the …

• Shedim = “mighty ones” (Deuteronomy 32:17)

• Seirim = He-goats, satyrs, demonic hairy creatures

• Lilith, Tsiim, Iim...

• These Hebrew words are all translated “demons.”

·         “Principalities, Powers …” these are ranks, angels seem to come in different kinds.

- Are demons just “junior members” of that?

Three Views:

1) Not intended to know any more than what is here.

- Draws from familiar Old Testament truths

2) These angels that sinned are angels that had to do with the fall of Lucifer Isaiah 14:12-17.

I believe that the fall of Satan and those angels in Isaiah 14, number one are not bound.

- Not bound – yet … the ones that Jude is talking about are bound, they are in chains of darkness reserved for the Day of judgement.

- Satan not bound -  not till the end of tribulation

- Satan’s angels still free to do mischief

Then what on Earth are we talking about in Jude 7?

3) This leads us to a passage in the Bible that is very strange in Genesis 6:1-4

• We all know about Noah's flood, but I don't think one person in 100 knows the reason for Noah's flood,  except in maybe a very broad sense.  to

• Yes, there was wickedness, and the wickedness was very widespread, and God chose to wipe out the whole earth at that time. I don't think the flood was local.

But Genesis chapter six verse one and verse two has a phrase that scholars wince, squirrel around and try to explain. You know it's amazing how much trouble you can get into how much work you can put on to yourself if you decide not to accept what the Bible tells you. There are people who spend years trying to talk about first Isaiah

and 2^nd Isaiah because they never read John 12.

John 12:38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? 39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, 40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. 41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

• Just like in Genesis 6:2 the libraries are filled with speculations as to what it means but if you just take it at face value it tells you would it means.

Genesis 6:1-2 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

• Now, “the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair”,

Two Basic Views:

• The common, Church “acceptable” view …

 - “Sons of God” is reference to believers of the line Seth

- “Daughters of men” this is supposedly reference to ungodly unbelievers

• Suggesting intermarriage that was not appropriate

• There are problems with that first of all that is not what it says,

1) B’nai Elohim = “Angels of God.”

- 4 times in Scriptures Genesis 6:2; Job 1:6; Job 2:1; Job 38:7

- Always means “angels”

By proof of that is that when the Septuagint was translated three centuries before Christ they translated it as angels.

- “Angels of God” in the ancient Septuagint translation

A Side Note by Troy H:  

Angels versus Sons of God:

Psalm 34:7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

Psalm 35:5 and 35:6 “Angel” from, “malak: וּמַלְאַ֖ךְ

“Angel” from, “malak: (4397)”meaning, a messenger. From an unused root meaning to despatch as a deputy; a messenger; specifically, of God, i.e. An angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher) -- ambassador, angel, king, messenger.

Hebrews 1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day 

have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

Sons of God:

Genesis 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

“Sons” From, “ben (1121) ”meaning, son.

 בֵּן = (1121) ben: son

בְּנֵי  (1121) applied to supernatural beings Genesis 6:2,4; Job 1:6; Job 2:1;

בְּנֵי (1121) heavenly beings Psalm 29:1 Berean Study Bible

 בְּנִי  (1121) my son, as term of kindliness or endearment, used by Eli to Samuel 1 Samuel 3:6, 16; 

Psalm 29:1 {A Psalm of David.} Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

Psalm 29:1 Berean Study Bible
A Psalm of David. Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD 

glory and strength.

2) Daughters of men are not limited to non-Sethites

3) when a believer and an unbeliever get married …

The Nephilim:

- They don't have “giant” offspring and what these people give birth to are some strange creatures.

Genesis 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Bear in mind that his longevity is decreasing to 120 years later becoming three score and 10 = 70 years. (Threescore used to be used for sixty plus ten = 70 years)

Genesis 6:4 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.

• So, whatever happened here the “sons of God” and the “daughters of men” gave birth to something unnatural, not normal.

• What on earth is going on

• Greek Septuagint renders this term “gigantis” often misunderstood to mean giants

- Now the Greek word “gigantis” actually means “earthborn.”

• The word Nephilim here it's from the Hebrew word naphal meaning (to fall, the Fallen Ones)

• Offspring from the sons of God and the daughters of men were the “Fallen Ones”

• Only makes sense if you view these as angels

- Which some have left their appropriate domain

• Took on the mode that allow intercourse with women and they gave birth to the Nephilim  

• Found before and after the flood Numbers 13

• Now the Nephilim happened to be very large, 13 feet tall and so forth. The Nephilim are strange so that suggests something bizarre is going on here.

Line of Seth?

• The early church viewed the B’nai Elohim as angels up through the late 4^th century:

• Justin, Athenagoras, Cyprian, Eusebius, et al.

 - Also, Josephus, Philo, Judeaus, and the Apocrypha regard this traditional view, so this was the common belief up until the 4^th century.

Julius Africanus (a contemporary of Origen)

- Introduced the theory that the “sons of God” simply refer to the genealogical line of Seth. Stating this isn't really the angels these are from the line of Seth, they intermarried with the other people.

There was an attack on the church …

• Celsus and Julian the Apostate

- Exploited the older common belief to attack Christianity

• Cyril of Alexandria, in his reply, repudiated the orthodox position of the angels

• Seemingly more appealing  

- the “Sethite theory” prevailed into the Medieval Church,

- Many still hold this view today

• This view has several serious problems

1) The Sethites were not distinguished for piety;

- Seth’s son Enosh introduced apostasy to that world.

- Masked by mistranslation of Genesis 4:26, should read

“…then men began to profane the name of the Lord”

2) Not exempted from the flood

- If they were believers they perished in the flood

3) When the faithful married the unfaithful, they do not give birth to unnatural offspring!

The Nephilim:

• Incidentally, the Nephilim didn't completely end with the flood

• Genesis 6:4 mentions, “…and also after that….”

• We find the sons of Anak, the Anakim, later in the Old Testament

- A very famous one was named Goliath

- David picked 5 stones from the brook, he only needed one!

• David new Goliath had four brothers and he was ready

The Anakim:

• The bedstead of one of them was 13 feet long (Deuteronomy 3:11)

• Compared to them, the men of Israel were “as grasshoppers” (Numbers 13:3; Amos 2:9) when the spies spied out the land, they were terrified because they had seen something that they had never experienced before. Joshua and Caleb said, “That's no problem, the Lord is on our side he's bigger than them.” But the people didn't buy that so it cost them about 38 years.

• Numbers 13:3 Why does Israel refer to their second appearance as Nephilim (Fallen Ones)? There is something about them that harks back to the days when the angels communed with the daughters of men. As you can tell from this presentation, I hold to the view personally, that there was something supernatural going on.

• Noah was “perfect in his generations” Genesis 6:9

- “He was a just man…he walked with God”

- His genealogy was clean, and untarnished

- This point makes no sense outside of Genesis 6:2

• This paints a bizarre picture of life before the flood

- Life and Eden was quite different than we can understand

- Adam walked with God, clothed with light

- Prior to sin, prior to the curse, a different dimension

• The whole situation was so different that there is no way to communicate it properly to us

After the fall, from Adam through Noah

- There was a whole different lifestyle

- People lived for hundreds of years

• “Sons of God and daughters of men” idea is embodied it all of Greek Mythology

- Titans (large) partly heavenly, partly earthly origins

- Rebelled against the “king of heaven” (Uranus)

- Defeated by Zeus after a prolonged conflict

- Thrown into a prison called Tartarus

• Greek Titan = Chaldean Shitan = Hebrew Satan

- Even in the mythology of our classical, cultural roots, there are veiled remembrances of a time when strange things were happening on the earth, pre-flood.

• We play a part in that – Satan’s strategy

- Deliverance is from the “seed of the woman”

- Satan wants to contaminate the race so that there are no pure humans to become heir to the title deed

- “No man was worthy to open the book…” Revelation 5

- Jesus Christ our deliverer had to be a “Man” he had to be an heir of Adam

Genealogies of Jesus:

• Two genealogies (Matthew and Luke)

• Luke was a doctor who goes from Adam to David

- From David to Mary

• Matthew, a Levite starts with Abraham and goes down to David

- Through Solomon the royal life to Joseph

• Joseph has legal title to the throne of David

• In Jeconiah’s day God put a blood curse on Jeconiah and all the rest of the royal line

- And Satan rejoiced

Because there was a blood curse on the royal line

• When we get down to Jesus Christ, we find that he is the legal son but not flesh and blood son Joseph

- Joseph carried the blood curse

• The two genealogies divide at David

- Matthews follows the legal line that has heir to the throne

- Luke goes through Nathan, another son of David to Mary the mother of Jesus

• Jesus was of the “house and lineage of David”

- In a way that made him legally entitled but not subject to the blood curse

- So again, and again as you study scripture you find Satan plotting, and God outsmarting him every step of the way.

• But the more you study the scriptures the more you become fascinated with God's methodology and how clever He is. But you also recognize that every detail fits into a plan. Every number, every number, every detail of these 66 books is woven tightly by a Super Engineer and it’s just incredible.

2 Peter 2:4:

2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, 

and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

• Satan has all kinds of fallen angels

- Doing all kinds of things but are not bound

- But these angels broke some deeper rules, so they were all cast down to Tartarus – the same place as in Greek mythology – Titans, etc. Notice where Peter goes on …                                                                                        2 Peter 2:4-5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And 

turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making [them] an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;           

• Tartarus = pit of darkness in the unseen world;

- Greek term for dark abode of woe

- Homer’s Illiad: - “as far below Hades as the earth is below heaven…” 

• Peter presumes that his readers are as familiar with all this as they are with the Flood of Noah and with Sodom and Gomorrah.

• Jude does the same thing in verse 7

- Referring to Sodom and Gomorrah’s lifestyle, that the angels did the same thing engaging in unnatural sexual perversion and going after strange flesh

- Angels did the same thing - unnatural sexual perversion

• “Going after strange flesh”

- The language appears to indicate that is the nature of the sin of the angels in verse 6

Lessons:

• Warnings against meddling with the spirit world (the scripture warns us)

- Throughout the Old Testament and New Testament – We are to “Flee all occultic things”

- Party games, horoscopes, etc., these are entries

- Subtle, “innocent” things serve as entry points

• Can lead to an entanglement with the “spirit world”

• Involvement that grows and deepens to an addiction  

- The end of which is your own destruction

• Not dangerous just because they are “stupid” and these are superstitions that the Bible doesn’t even comment on, but they are still malevolent

- They are malevolent, and driven by demonic spirits  

• Whose goal is to undo you and who command huge resources

Jude’s point is …

• Punishment which overtook the angels that sinned and emphasizes the serious nature of apostasy:

- Beings of a higher order than ours have been hurled down into a dark place of confinement where they have remained for thousands of years.

• God has not changed his attitude toward them;

- Time has not mitigated the seriousness of their sin

• False teachers are pre-written into condemnation 1 Timothy 4:1

1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;     

• Ideas impacting your life that are not Biblically sound have a very malevolent source

- Some are obviously anti-Biblical that they prey primarily on the secular world

- New age - are old ideas repackaged in modern technology

• Greater danger in pseudo-Christian doctrines

- That are just one degree off - that's all it takes. If I'm aboard the ship as a spy and I'm trying to get this ship off course, my shrewdest way is to get the autopilot 1° off. Because they won't notice it for a while, until they are so off course there was no hope. That is exactly what Satan has done throughout the ages.

• What's your protection against that?

- The whole council of God! Genesis 1:1 – Revelation 22.

• Try to absorb as the Holy Spirit gives you opportunity the whole council of God

Ephesians 6:10-18 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his 

might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

• You don't stand a chance by yourself

- Satan is smarter than you he has had centuries to study

- He has enormous resources and focus

- He is bright, he was “perfect and wisdom”

- Sin has corrupted him for a very long time

- You make a gigantic mistake if you underestimate him

- Never fool around in spiritual matters without proper armament

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.

• Spiritual warfare Daniel 10; 2 Kings 6

• Spiritual forces behind what happens on earth

• The “hints” become very explicit in Ephesians

- We do indeed, “wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness and high places.”

• Prince of Persia and Prince of Greece  (Daniel 10)

- A ruler and his minions over each government

- 200 years between Persia and Greece, so their time domain is a little different than ours because their physics are different than ours.

• Is there a Prince of the United States? Yes!

• Who owns the media in this country?

Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel 

of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench 

all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication 

in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

How do you put on the whole armor of God?

• Take Ephesians 6 and layout each article

- Really dig into them,

- Build yourself a preparation

Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth 

salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

• We should be preparing for spiritual battles

- With a sense of urgency that is very, very high

• Bible studies, public and private

• Prayer and devotional life, the Holy Spirit will lead

• God is getting ready to charge the earth again

- Some events will occur prior to that judgment

• For lots of reasons we know that time is near

• Events that happened prior to the Flood of Noah

- Are going to happen again

• Widespread wickedness,

• Small minority in God's grace – in the since of being taken care of

• We are headed for some strange times!

 

Jude 7-8

Jude Session 4 (Verses 7&8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1-lL6DNkTc

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.

• Jude is writing to the church as a warning to you and I.

· It is a very solemn thing that Sodom and Gomorrah are set forth as examples for instruction to the Church!

· What can believers learn from the record of the old cities of the plain which God destroyed because of their terrible wickedness?

It is prophetic of the apostasy within Christendom in the last days:

• “turn the grace of our God into lasciviousness” verse 4

• “defile the flesh” verse 8

• “corrupt themselves as beasts” verse 10

• “walk after their own lusts” verse 16                                                                              

• Apostasy begins with intellectual doubts; it’s certain to end with physical degradation. • Sodom and Gomorrah are mentioned in connection with apostasy,

- Therefore, they once had knowledge of the truth! 

· It was only 450 years since the Flood;

• Shem (Noah’s son) still walked the earth, having 50 years left before him.

Sodom and Gomorrah:

· Its first mention is in Genesis 10:19 “...the border of the Canaanites...”

• Archaeological notes by Dr. Melvin Grove Kyle show that at Jebel Usdum (on the southern shore of the Dead Sea) the Zoar ruins were identified, with oil and bitumen (“slime” in Genesis 11:3; Genesis 14:10).

• The other cities are believed to be under the southern part of the Dead Sea.

· The Dead Sea is 1,286 feet below sea level.

• It is the terminus of the Jordan River and is 40 miles long, 10 miles wide.

• Its northern segment is very deep — 1,400 feet in places, there is no outlet;

• The southern segment (10 miles long) is only 10 - 20 feet deep. It now covers the “Vale of Siddim” (Genesis 14:3,8,10) in which five cities existed:

• At the time of Abraham and Lot, it was a fertile area in which five cities existed:

• Sodom, Gomorrah, Zoar, Admah, and Zeboim. They were very prosperous cities; over one million tombs were discovered.

• The population of these cities was very substantial.

• First mention was Genesis 10:19 on the border of the Canaanites.

Abraham and Lot:

• Abraham and his nephew Lot settled together

• They both had large herds that were growing very large (Genesis 13) 

• It was decided they needed to split up, conflicts were rising between their herds

• Abraham may have been one of the wealthiest people alive at that time

- He had 318 trained soldiers born in his tents to go to battle

• To rescue Lot and his household from captivity

• He defeated an alliance of four kings

• Abraham was a very powerful man!

• Lot chose the Vale of Siddim

Lot’s Walk:

1) “Lifted up his eyes” attractive to flesh sight rather than faith (Genesis 13:10);

2) “Chose him” all the plain of Jordan, rather than having God direct him;

3) “Separated himself” from Abraham (Genesis 13:11),

- Abraham chose the heights of Hebron meaning, “Communion”

- In spite of his mistakes Lot is described as a righteous man 2 Peter 2

- God goes to great lengths to save Lot a second time

4) Lot elects to “Dwell in the cities of the plain”; We are pilgrims, passing through, our home is heaven. We are not Democrats or Republicans, we are Monoarchists.

5) “Pitched his tent toward Sodom” (Genesis 13:12);

- Abraham saves Lot the first time: (Genesis 14:11,12).

The First War - Genesis 14:

• 4 kings from the sons of Shem make war on five kings from the sons of Ham

• But the focus should be on Abram – he never took sides

• This is the first recorded war in the Scriptures

• The five kings from the South or from the five wicked cities

- Each has the name of a major demon god

- The five kings to the South lost

Genesis 14:10-16 And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.

- The term for slide pits in the King James version, is translated in the Hebrew as “bitumen” think of it in the term of oil.

Genesis 14:11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.  12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

• What was Lot doing in Sodom in the first place?

• Lot, after being rescued, returned there to live.

• God changed the names for Abram and Sarai

• Abram, Sarai, and Ishmael together = 961

- 961 = the square of 31; 169 =the square of 13

• Law of the Square – Hebrew Letters and words have a numeric value

- 961 is said to be the signature of God

• The opening stanzas of the Creation hymns in the book of Genesis and the closing stanzas of the hymn in the book of Genesis add up to 961. So, they look for that and they see that that's one of God's appointed seals, why? 31 is the number of El, the name for God. 961 squared discovered all kinds of interesting places, example. Why did I bring all of this up? Abram, Sarai, and Ishmael together all add up to 961.

• Abraham, Sarah, and Ishmael do not = 961 … BUT! …

• Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac do = 961

• When God changed the name of Abram to Abraham his name was given breath, and

that breath was the “ruach” of the spirit. But this event takes place prior to the name change.

Genesis 14:13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.

• This is the first time the word Hebrew is used in scripture, it means “The one who has crossed over.”

Genesis 14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

• “Trained Servants” appears only once in the Bible.

- It also appears in some early Egyptian documents

- It is used for “trained mercenary soldiers”

- Practiced, expert at the art of war

• Abram is not a docile pacifist but a steward of considerable resources

- Anticipated the need to bear arms  

• 318 pros defeated a confederation of 4 kings

- Who had just defeated a 5-King alliance

Genesis 14:15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

• The “Mud Gate” of Laish a gate that even Abraham might have gone through! A rare find, since mud structures rarely survive.

• Abram comes home to a hero's welcome

• The king of Sodom offers a reward and he is rebuffed

- Abram sees himself as senior to the King of Sodom

- But he does do obeisance to another king

• Melchizedek, King of Salem blesses Abram

- Abram pays tithes to Melchizedek (Who is found in the Psalms and the Book of Hebrews)

• Melchizedek is a King, Priest, and receives tithes

- In the scriptures he is presented as having no beginning and no end

- Some people believe that this was the Old Testament appearance of Jesus Christ

- Jesus Christ is a priest after the order of or the similitude of Melchizedek

- Secondly, he is not some Angel he is a Man the Book of Hebrews tells us

- Some believe he was Shem, but he was still alive at this time and he had a genealogy

- When God anointed the Levitical priesthood, He made it plain that they were priests and that kings were for kings, they were separate

• The only other group of persons who are Kings and Priests is Jesus and the Church

- The 144,000 don’t have that distinction

Genesis 18:1-6 And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray

thee, from thy servant:

4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:

5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

Abraham’s Visitors:

• Introduces in both the Jewish and Arab cultures 3 measures of meal as a Fellowship Offering – the meal is Unleavened

• In the Bedouin and Judaist traditions have roots back to this event right here

• The Kingdom of Heaven is like a woman who hid leaven in 3 measures of meal Matthew 13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like 

unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was 

leavened.

• “Leaven” From, “zumé (2219)”, meaning, leaven. 2219 zýmē – leaven (yeast); (figuratively) the spreading influence of what is typically concealed (but still very dramatic). Leaven is generally a symbol of the spreading nature of evil but note the exception at Luke 13:20,21 (parallel Matthew 13:32,33).

- 3 measures of meal = The Fellowship Offering

• Why is there leaven in this Fellowship Offering?

- Leaven is always a measure of sin because it corrupts by puffing up and is used as a model of sin. It is quoted three times in the Gospels and three times in the Pauline epistles.

- Jesus prophecy of heresy introduced into the Church

- Here is a Rabbi talking to Jewish disciples - the meaning is understood

• Abraham received these three men

- They look, feel, and talk like men and eat with him

- Who are they? The Lord Jesus Christ and two angels

• This is a pre-incarnate presentation of our Lord

• Two of these three have an appointment in Sodom and Gomorrah

Genesis 18:16-2 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. 17 And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; 18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. 20 And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; 21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. 22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord. 23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 26 And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. 27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: 28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. 29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake. 30 And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. 31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake. 32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. 33 And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

• Abraham stopped at 10 - he backed off

• There was actually only one righteous (Genesis 19)

• We need to understand that God’s ways are not our ways

• Jesus points to Lot in Luke 17 and makes a prophetic analogy

- We are instructed to look at this situation in terms of the coming judgment on the earth  

- This is one of the reasons that I believe this points to the rapture of the church preceding the wrath of God being poured out on the earth (1 Thessalonians 5)

• God lays down the principle that Jesus uses later

Genesis 19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

• Lot sat in the gate - He was one of the elders. Now that’s just not a location it’s an office also.

• What was he doing there?

Genesis 19:2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

• This would be like taking a stroll in Central Park at night and that would be a very dangerous situation, there are places in certain cities that visitors are warned to avoid for fear of their lives.

Genesis 19:3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. 4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

• That's bizarre this is not just the young toughs but the old men too.

Genesis 19:5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

• The population is broadly homosexual. We don't see any euphemism in the King James version calling them gays or using polite terms, these guys are perverts. And they have visitors in town, and they want to take advantage of them. They are upset with Lot for not accommodating them.

Genesis 19:6-7 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. 8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

• What a bizarre proposal it's hard for you and I too imagine Lot offering that. There is

another principle implied here if you are in an Arab country, and you are the guest of

the host you need fear nothing from the host.

Genesis 19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

• They are speaking to Lot who is sort of one of them but isn’t. And now that he is obstructing them they are threatening him who was sort of a lynch mob.  

Genesis 19:10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. 11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

• So the angels indulged in a supernatural ability and blinded this mob that was there.

Genesis 19:12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: 13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

• What was the mission of these two guys? It was to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, but there is a pre-requisite condition before they can destroy the city.

Genesis 19:14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law. 15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. 16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

• The angels physically took them by their hands and dragged them out of the city, there was no coaxing, they took him by the hand got them outside of the city limits.

Genesis 19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. 18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:

• It's hard to visualize this you know we read these stories and it seems so hard for us to picture, we in our life can picture this kind of degradation because all you have to do is visit a big city. But Lot you think he's a slow learner.

Genesis 19:19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: 20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. 21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar (which means little).

• The Angel tells us something here, the angels hands are tied.

- The Angel can do nothing until Lot is gone.

- Big enough issue to concede on sparing the city of Zoar if that's what it takes to get Lot out of the way.

- Zoar was not destroyed with the other four cities

Genesis 19:23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. 24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

Lot’s Wife:

• Lots wife had emotional roots in Sodom

• She apparently lingered, and straggled behind

- This was more than just a look over the shoulder

- She apparently had trouble letting go

• She was not clear of “Ground Zero”  

- She was hit with “brimstone” and turned into a pillar of salt

- We have to put the life of the flesh behind us

• It was not safe with Lot and their daughters in Zoar

- Perhaps turn back to get something

• “No man having put his hand to the plow and looking back is fit for the Kingdom” (Luke 9:62)

Sodom and Gomorrah:

• God honors even one righteous person  

• How can Lot be considered righteous?

• The deal he tried to make with the lynch mob is he righteous?

• Lot is recorded in Scripture as a righteous man 2 Peter 2:4-8

2 Peter 2:4-8 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, 

and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And 

spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And turning 

the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, 

making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 7 And delivered 

just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8 (For that righteous man 

dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day 

with their unlawful deeds;)

• “Vexed” From verse 7, from “kataponeó (2669)” to wear down. Usage: I exhaust by labor or suffering, wear out, overpower, oppress. From kata and a derivative of ponos; to labor down, i.e. Wear with toil (figuratively, harass) -- oppress, vex.

Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak [great] words against the most High, and shall wear out 

the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given 

into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

• “Vexed” From verse 8, from “basanizó (928)” to torture. Usage: I examine, as by torture; I torment; I buffet, as of waves. 5. Passive to be harassed, distressed; of those who at sea are struggling with a head wind, Mark 6:48; of a ship tossed by the waves, Matthew 14:24. 

• Just = Justified, righteous

• Vexed – Life around him was in total conflict with his soul.

Lot:

• In Sodom Lot had no pleasure

• Lot was not at peace

• Lot was not in the Lord’s rest

• Was Lot saved?

- Once by Abraham’s 318 troops

- By the angels that dragged him out of Sodom

• Intercessory prayer of Abraham may have played a role in the second rescue

2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

• With all the adverse comment on his walk

- Lot is regarded in the New Testament as one who is saved!

• He was saved literally in terms of being removed from Sodom and Gomorrah for our learning

• Lot was saved by the Grace and Mercy of God

- Just like we are

• We can take enormous comfort from Lot

- Looking at the apostle Paul is humbling

- Looking at Lot gives us hope for our imperfect walk

- This is a spiritual issue

- God is seeking to save even one (Genesis 19; Ezekiel 22:30-31; Jeremiah 5:1)  

Ezekiel 22:30-31 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, 

and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found 

none. 31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed 

them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, 

saith the Lord GOD.

Jeremiah 5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

• God doesn't seem to require much!

• God's posture with Sodom and Gomorrah is not unique at all

- He will spare the city for one righteous if there is one

• This lends credence to the idea that the church will not see the wrath of God but from a distance

Earth Dwellers:

• The main scenario in the Book of Revelation is about Earth Dwellers

• Earth Dwellers – They that dwell upon the earth

• Believers are not Earh Dwellers

• The Earth Dwellers are blaspheming God

- The Old Testament punishment for blasphemy is stoning 

- Revelation predicts 200-pound hailstones will fall

- This is consistent from beginning to end

1 Corinthians 3:11-15 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is 

Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, 

wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

• Our works will be tested by the living God

• Depending on what foundation you built upon

- You will either be rewarded or suffer loss

- May suffer loss of our works for still be saved

• We work to please Him and to fulfill His call upon our lives for his Kingdom anything else is dead works, dross.

• Lots daughters resort to incest and they give rise to the Moabites and the Ammonites and it rather a grim story to the whole scene.

Luke 17:22-32 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it. 23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them. 24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day. 25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation. 26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

• He is not saying that eating, and drinking, and having married wives, and being given in marriage, is bad. He’s saying, it’s business as usual.

Luke 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. 31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. 32 Remember Lot's wife.

“…As The Days Of Lot”

• “Remember Lot's wife” (Luke 17:32)

 • She was married to the world, and she couldn't let go

• Even with the Angel taking her by the hand

- She still didn't get the message to flee

- She was cleaning too tightly to the world, the flesh, and to things

Luke 17:33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. 34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. 35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

• You have night, morning, and day and it all happens like that.

• Does the Lord know that the world is round you bet. This is an interesting study in astronomy right here.

- This is no Ptolemy cosmology there this is strictly Copernican cosmology.

• Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. He determined that the earth was round.

Born: February 19, 1473, Toruń, Poland

• What was going on spiritually in Sodom and Gomorrah? (Romans 1:18-32)

Romans 1:18-19 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

- They had two witnesses, Lot and the word of God/the heavens.

• The heathen are accountable; “without excuse.” God’s whole creation holds them accountable without excuse.                                                                                                                                                                           Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

• They once knew God, everyone does

- They knew God

- They glorified him not as God

- They were not thankful

- They became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened

Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

• “Fools” From, “mórainó (3471)” to be foolish. Usage: (a) I make foolish, turn to foolishness, (b) I taint, and thus: I am tasteless, make useless.

(Mōrós) – dull, sluggish ("without an edge"); (figuratively) acting "stupid or silly," "insipid, flat." . . . "to play the fool" (WS, 30). See 3474 (mōros) ("moronic")lacking a grip on reality (acting as though "brainless").

Romans 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

• They gave God up, so, God gave them up …to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.

- Is there a link between sexual perversion and the denial of the Living God … Yes!

Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served

the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

“…As The Days Of Lot”

• The most profound philosophical insights will not preserve you from indulgences of the flesh 

• Recognition is not a cure

• The highest goal of philosophy, ethics, or morality in the philosophical sense at best can only give you a consciousness of it, but not the power to overcome this

- It is only done by the Holy Spirit

• Every headline in America: Is a renewed outbreak of ancient sins Romans 1:18-32

• They once knew God - failed to glorify Him – became vain in their reasoning – their hearts darkened

• God gives them up to uncleanness, vile affections, and a reprobate mind. (John 12:39, 40)

• Remember Lots wife this is the message of the day

Jude 1:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and 

speak evil of dignities.

• Three times: Used Old Testament examples (Genesis 14, 18, 19)

- defile the flesh “Walking after their own lusts” 2 Peter 3:3

- set at nought dominion

- rail at dignities

• Defile the flesh “Walking after their own lusts” 2 Peter 3:3

- Linked to a belief in Evolution

- Belief in prophecy is antithetical to belief in Evolution 

- Creation and The Second coming imply God intervening in the history of mankind

- Today's commitment to evolution is attempting to undermine any belief in the second coming of Jesus Christ

• Defiling the flesh list is found in (Galatians 5:19-20)

• “Out of the heart…defiles a man” (Matthew 15:19, 20)

“They Set At Naught Dominion:”

• They deny authority:

• “Denying our only Lord and Master” verse 4

• “No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit” (1 Corinthians 12:3)

• “Every knee shall bow” (Philippians 2:10, 11)

• God sets up authorities                                                                                                        • “New” social order: Kingdom Now: not people of the world; “crept into”; Doctrines of

Demons (1 Timothy 4:1)

Rail at Dignities:

• “Rail” = speak evil, revile dignities verses 9,10

• Speaking in judgement of authorities…

Revelation 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

• Satan = “Accuser of the Brethren”

- Aren’t we doing his work each time we open our mouths against the Lord's chosen vessels?

• The Ultimate Dignity: Our Lord Jesus Christ!

• The official state religion of the United States - Secular Humanism - attacks Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior

Jude’s Message:

• Remember Sodom

• Remember Lots wife

- Actual Historical event that the Holy Spirit calls to our attention many times

- Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Jesus points us to these truths so that we can learn some lessons for our spiritual walk

• Written for Believers

Jude 9-10

Jude Session 5 (Verses 9&10)    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB4cmwwDUe0

Michael vs. Satan Over the Body of Moses

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.

• I believe that the battle for the body of Moses had everything and something to do with the “Battle Between the Gods.” Moses had bought the Israelites by the Hand of God out of Egypt, by defeating all of the gods of Egypt in the form of plagues that totally humiliated the System of the Egyptian gods. I’m sure that if Satan could put Moses’s head on a pike the systems of this world could claim that it is futile to stand with the God of Israel, because in the end you will ultimately be defeated.

A. Remember, Balak the king of Moab tried to have the prophet Balaam curse Israel, only to find the LORD would only allow Balaam to bless Israel.

B. King Og of Bashan, which we associate with the Golan Heights, God led the Israelites to kill certain giants before entering the Promised Land.

C. The battle has always been about kings and gods, and whether we trust the true God of the Torah or do we trust the princes of this world system.

Genesis 3:1-5 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

 

Luke 4:3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God…

D. Secondly, if there was any way that the body of Moses could be re-animated, cloned, or duplicated, can you imagine the chaos that could have ensued if the enemy could speak through the mouth of a false Messiah/Moses. The Ten Commandments could be annulled or revised to totally refuted what God originally told Moses.

I also believe what Dr. Chuck Missler stated, “Jude 1:9 tells us that Michael the archangel fought with Satan over the body of Moses. Why? Nobody on earth knows besides the Holy Spirit. Moses and Elijah (who never died) show up at the Transfiguration in Matthew 17. I suspect that these are the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11, partly because the Two Witnesses have abilities that match miracles that were accomplished through Elijah and Moses. It is possible that Moses’ ministry on earth is not finished.”

Blurry Creatures Episode 203 The Bones of Moses with Dr. Joel Muddamalle

Dr. Joel Muddamalle returns to Blurry Creatures and we delve into a peculiar story found in the book of Jude about a supernatural fight over the body of Moses. Why would the location of the body of Moses matter in cosmic space and time? What did the ancients believe about the importance of where our bodies are buried? Join us for a fascinating conversation about the unseen realm and one of the stranger stories in scripture. Dr. Joel is currently the Director of Theology and Research for Proverbs 31 Ministries and Lysa TerKeurst and is passionate about teaching the brilliant truths in Scripture. 

Guest: https://muddamalle.com

 

A curious fact: It is almost impossible to find a sermon or article on this strange dispute between the chief of the holy angels and the chief of the wicked spirits.

“Speak evil of no man” (Titus 3:2).

Review verse 8: Three Outstanding Marks of Apostasy

               • Defiling the flesh

               • Despising dominion

               • Railing at dignities

Railing judgment is important enough to merit further illustration!

Two mighty angels once disputed over the body of a creature of a lower order than they:

• The angel who was faithful to his Creator said nothing against his evil opponent...

• Even though he himself was doing the work of God in obedience to a divine command, and...

• Even though the Devil who opposed him was seeking to thwart God’s purposes!

Other “New” Revelations Given by Allusion:

Jude: Prophecy of Enoch                                      verses 14,15

Peter: Noah as a preacher of righteousness        2 Peter 2:5

Paul: Words of Christ not in Gospels                   Acts 20:35

“More blessed to give than receive”

Names of the two magicians in Egypt                 2 Timothy 3:8

James: Elijah prayed to stop rain for 3 1/2 years

(1 Kings 17:1 & 18:1 do not link long drought in

Ahab’s reign to the prayers of the prophet) James 5:17

Stephen: “another Pharoah” heteros, not allos;

Moses learned wisdom of Egyptians Acts 7

Michael

Archangel: “Chief Angel”; always in the singular: only one. Michael = “who is unto like God?” (vs. Satan, which means “Adversary.”)

· First reference is in Daniel 10:13: After three weeks of prayer and fasting, delay and assist (Ephesians 6:12). Michael “one of the chief princes” = “the first of the Chief Princes.” He is assigned to defeat Satan’s purpose against God’s people:

                              · Israel Daniel 10:13,21

                              · Time of Jacob’s Trouble Daniel 12:1; Revelation 12:7-9

Summary:

Satan seeks to defeat God’s program; Michael is God’s chosen instrument for overcoming Satan’s purpose.

Why Are They Both Interested in Moses’ Body?

· There are over 500 Old Testament references to Moses: Only one refers to his body: Deuteronomy 34:5,6.

Deuteronomy 34:5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, 

according to the word of the LORD. 6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, 

nor his natural force abated. 8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping [and] mourning for Moses were ended.

Traditions:

• The Torah tells us that Moses was buried by God. (Deuteronomy 34:6)

• Targum of Jonathan, on Deuteronomy 34:6:

- The grave of Moses was given into the special custody of Michael.

- Ancient Jewish traditions speak of a contest about Moses’ soul at the time of his burial.

- It is widely believed among Jewish scholars that there was a contest

• Jude tells us about the contest

Questions:

• Why did God Himself bury Moses?

• Why is the place of the sepulcher kept secret?

• Why is Satan interested in the body of man...this man?

• Why is Michael dispatched to oppose?

1)    Fetish Risk? The potential of being worshipped (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, IV:8:49).

- Satan’s goal is deception and false worship, we find him doing that very thing (The Beast “wounded to death” in Revelation 13:3,4); veneration of Prophet (Deuteronomy 18:15,19).

Revelation 13:3,4 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his 

deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

• Veneration of Prophet

Deuteronomy 18:15,19 The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. 17 And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. 20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

• The Brazen Serpent and King Hezekiah’s reform — 690 years later (2 Kings18:4).

2 Kings18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan (brazen).

• God sent a plague among the people (Numbers 21)

• The Brazen Serpent on a cross was the remedy

• Jesus made reference to that event

Fetishes:

• The Shroud of Turin

• Noah's Ark

Two Groups of Ideas:

2)    Future Role? Future Roles: Moses and Elijah  

• Two ministries in the Old Testament that were interrupted, that were incomplete

John 1:19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from 

Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?

• There were three people they thought he might be, three were expected in John 1:20-21

John 1:20-21 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.

21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.

• Not the Messiah – He told them right up front

• Elijah – some confusion in Matthew 11:14; 17:10,11 (Jesus makes a remark about the spirit of Elijah)

- John the Baptist was NOT Elijah John 1:21; Matthew 17:11

• He was Not that prophet – Prophet of Moses Deuteronomy 18:15-18

• He was none of them

Promise of Elijah:

Malachi 4:5-6 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great 

and dreadful day of the LORD: 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth 

with a curse.

• John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah

• But there is a day that is coming, that Elijah will come before the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord.

• If you observe Passover in a Jewish Orthodox home, you will find that there is an empty chair for Elijah.

• Messiah

• Elijah (confusion in Matthew 11:14; 17:10,11);

John the Baptist NOT Elijah (John 1:21; Matthew 17:11);

• Moses (Deuteronomy 18:15-18).

Numbers 20:7-12 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink. 9 And Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him. 10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?

• Moses was upset, God was not upset = false witness

• Who's taking credit for this?

Numbers 20:11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

Moses Ministry:

• 180 degrees out of step with what God intended

• Moses is going to be placed into the “penalty box” 

• This is a heavy penalty, he is through, out of the game

• Bring in the substitute!  

Numbers 20:12 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

Deuteronomy 3:23 And I besought the Lord at that time, saying, 24 O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? 25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. 26 But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the Lord said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. 27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see. 29 So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.

• Moses blew it, and there was a price to pay.

• Moses is superseded by Joshua (Numbers 20:7-12 vs. Exodus 17);

• Compare this to a similar event in Exodus 17

1 Kings 19:13-16 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? 14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. 15 And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria: 16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room. 17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay. 18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

2 Kings 2:1- And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. 2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel. 3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace. 4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho. 5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace. 6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the Lord hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on. 7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan. 8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground. 9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. 10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so. 11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. 12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces. 13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan; 14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the Lord God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over. 15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

• Elijah was superseded by Elisha (1 Kings 19:13-16 @ Horeb; 2 Kings 2:11).

[Elijah, had 8 miracles;

Elisha, had 16 miracles, he had a = double portion.]

Two Witnesses of Revelation 11:

Revelation 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. 5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. 6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. 7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

• Overcome = Prevail

• Jesus told Peter that the gates of hell will not prevail against the church

• These two witnesses are not part of the church

- They are Jewish, Old Testament Saints

Revelation 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. 10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. 11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. 12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

Identified 4 Gifts:

Revelation 11:5-6 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

Elijah:     • Fire from Heaven (1 Kings 18:36,37 @ Carmel); 2 Kings 1:10,12 (3 times total!);

              • Shut heaven from rain (1 Kings 17:1; James 5:17; cf. Luke 4:25);

Moses:   • Water to blood (Exodus 7:19);

              • All manner of plagues (Exodus 8-12).

- Why not Enoch? [“Die but once?”]

- Hebrews 9:27 is a principle, a denial of reincarnation

- (Hebrews 9:27 vs. Lazarus, Jairus’ daughter, widow of Nain’s son...]

• Enoch didn’t die but was a Gentile!

Matthew 17 “Staff Meeting”:

Matthew 17:1-3 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, 2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. 3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.

• Jesus, Moses, and Elijah had a staff meeting!  

• How did they know that this was Moses and Elijah?

- Nothing tells us that we don't know how they knew 

- But they all recognized them somehow

Matthew 17:4-5 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. 5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

• Jesus spoke of His Crucifixion (Luke 9:31); His Sufferings and Glory (1 Peter 1:10-12); and His Second Coming (2 Peter 1:15-18).

Luke 9:30-31 And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias:

31 Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.

• It's a prophetic discussion between Jesus, Moses, and Elijah

1 Peter 1:10-12 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: 11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

• If you study this passage he is speaking about that event between Jesus, Moses, and Elijah on the mount of transfiguration.

2 Peter 1:15-18 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. 16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

• Not only did Moses and Elijah appear with Christ 

- But the discussion had to do with the Second Coming of Christ

“Wetmore Hypothesis Mount Pisgah”:

Is this mountain the same location as Moses’ sepulchre and Elijah’s departure?

• Elijah’s translation across Jordan, east of Jericho taken up by a whirlwind in the valley at the foot of Mount Pisgah (2 Kings 2:1-14);

• Moses’ sepulcher at Beth-Peor, at the base of Mount Nebo near the foot of Mount Pisgah (Deuteronomy 34:1,6)

• The Transfiguration was not in Galilee (Mark 9:30). Could it be the same Mount Pisgah? (cf. Matthew 17:20).

• Is it possible that this staff meeting with Jesus took place on the very mountain which Moses saw last and where Elijah was there last?

Matthew 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

• They just come from the Mountain of Transfiguration

- That's the mountain that he was pointing to

- What mountain was Jesus speaking of Mount Pisgah?

• Everyone believes that the Mount of Transfiguration was in Galilee

Mark 9:30 And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know it.

• They had just come down from the Mount of Transfiguration

• They couldn't leave Galilee to go to Galilee

• They were NOT already in gallery

• They were east of the Jordan, in Moab, not in Galilee

• Elijah’s translation was across the Jordan, east of Jericho (2 Kings 2:1-14)

• Moses’ sepulcher at Beth-Peor, at the base of Mount Nebo near the foot of Mount Pisgah (Deuteronomy 34:1,6)

Moses’ sepulcher is at Beth-Peor, at the base of Mount Nebo near the foot of Mount Pisgah (Deuteronomy 34:1,6)

Jude’s Point:

• Michael is on a mission for the Lord contesting the body of Moses against Satan

• Even then Michael does not bring a railing accusation against Satan

• This has to be the most extreme example Jude could have presented

- Not really about Revelation 11 - the two witnesses

- Discussed Michael, Satan, and the Moses issue

- Link between Moses body and his future role

- Two witnesses will surface representing the Law and the Prophets in a uniquely Jewish ministry

• Satan understands that, and he is doing all that he can do to thwart that mission

• Michael was sent to hold the devil back

• There are these casual songs within the Christian community that do not treat Satan as a dignity 

• Michael dared not bring railing accusations against him

- We shouldn’t make him bigger than he is,

- We shouldn't treat him trivially

• We also shouldn't fear him only because, “1 John 4:4 Greater is he who is in us than he that is in the world.”

Conclusion:

Example of Michael = This is a terrible warning against “evil speaking.”

• Attacking God’s people;                                                                                                     • Speaking accusations against institution which honor the Lord and are honored by

Him

· These are acts which point to a falling away from the teaching of the Bible rather than to a subjection to it.

• Contending for the faith is one thing (verse 3), being contentious is another (Titus 3:9).

· In the mouth of two witnesses every word shall be established:

“The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan...” (Zechariah 3:2).

• Michael’s words were restricted to his adversary alone.

• If words are publicized, no one can tell how far it will go, how twisted it will become, or what harm it will ultimately do.

Verse 10: Like Creatures Without Reason:  

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.

• One thought linking verses 8,9 & 10: Railing at Dignities.

· The archangel, although dealing with Satan himself, and possessing a more perfect knowledge than ours, dared not to speak in judgment.

· “But these rail at whatsoever thing they know not.”

• An apostate does not hesitate to speak out in condemnation concerning matters about which he does not know enough to make him a judge over others.

“Rail” = Greek root, blasphemeo, transliterates “blaspheme” means to

“vilify” “speak reproachfully” or “calumniate.”

• What are the “things they know not” (cf. Revelation 13:6; 1 Peter 3:16; 2 Peter 2:12...). Two words for “knowing”:  

· “Oida” = deeper knowledge;

· “epistao” = perception by animal senses and faculties.

• Unreasoning beasts have knowledge of the natural world, but only a superficial, if any, understanding.

- Marks of an apostasy, in verse 10, in reverse order (vs. verse 8).

• verse 8: “defile” = to dye, or stain

• verse 10: “corrupted” = spoiled, or ruined (cf. Ephesians 4:22)

· The apostate limits himself to mere natural knowledge, rails at the truth, and finally perished eternally in his own corruption.

Next Time: Downward acceleration highlighted in verse 11, the heart of the epistle’s structure:

• Midway between illustrations from the supernatural realm (verse 9) and from the natural realm (verses 12,13)

- preceded by apostasy in history, and followed by apostasy in prophecy.

- It makes personal, individual examples to follow those already set forth in corporate examples.

Homework: Read about

• Cain (Genesis 4)

- Why was Able a Shepherd?

- What made Abel’s offering acceptable over Cain’s offering?

• Balaam (Numbers 22-25,31)

- Balaam was a prophet, how much of A prophet? He prophesied the Christmas Star

- Greedy, he prophecies for hire

- We have the error of Balaam, the doctrine of Balaam, and so forth

- He shows up in the Book of Revelation in a letter by our Lord to the churches

- Because Cain and Balaam do mistakes that you and I are very likely to do also

• Korah (Numbers 16)  

Jude 11-13

Jude Session 6 (Verses 11-13)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDkVMRs1zSY

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.

Overview:

• Some plain, blunt, tough details

• There is no hope for apostates to be found in all of the book of Jude

• Their doom is sure 

To them is reserved the blackness of darkness forever Hebrews 6:4-6

• Words are in past tense, they have already perished

• All of the amended ability of history can't be changed

• Past tense is intended to connotate its certainty

Prophetic apostates are still future, still to happen

- Their doom is sure

2 Peter 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and 

overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been 

better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own 

vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

• As a kid, seeing that when a dog gets upset throws up, but to see him turn around and lap it up is disgusting.

• How do you think God feels after we knowing the truth fall into error.

• Like this swine of 2 Peter 2:20-22, they were never true sheep of the Good Shepherd

- The word “knowledge” here is “head trip” not experiential trip

Three Men From the Past:

· This verse is the heart of the epistle’s structure. Midway between illustrations from the supernatural realm (v. 9) and from the natural realm (verses 12,13).

· It is preceded by apostasy in history, and is followed by apostasy in prophecy. This verse also supplements previous corporate examples with personal, individual examples.

Apostasy is not confined to one class of person:

• Cain a tiller of the soil

• Balaam a prophet

• Korah a prince in Israel

Individually, each speaks of a particular aspect of what it means to fall away from

the truth; collectively, they present a complete process:

First, they enter upon a wrong path;

              they run riotously down that path;

                              finally, they perish at its end.

· There is no hope for apostates to be found in all of Jude. Their doom is sure. To them is reserved the blackness of darkness forever (Hebrews 6:4-6).

• Like the swine of Mark 5:13, they run violently down a steep place into God’s wrath;

• Once they come under the power of the “doctrine of demons” (1 Timothy 4:1)., they turn from the truth (John 14:6).

• These three men commit individual sins

- Jude rolls them all together to portray a process that all apostates go through

• They knowingly choose the way of Cain for the way of Christ;

• They choose the error of Balaam for the truth of Christ;

• And the perishing of Korah for the life of Christ.

Jude 1:11 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.

The Literal rendering of Jude 1:11: “In the way of Cain, they went away, and in the wandering of Balaam for reward they rushed headlong, and in the rebellion of Korah they perished.”

Way of Cain:

Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death.

Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death.

• Our natural judgment is not a reliable guide for spiritual things

- The creation shows the Creator, and His handiwork

- The Heavens declare the glory of God

• From the creation we know there is a Designer, an Architect, a personality behind all that we see

• The creation cannot communicate His redemptive plan

• Redemption is God's greatest work; it occupies the most space in all of the Bible

- Creation has maybe a handful of chapters in the Bible

- Redemption, most of Genesis, Exodus, Ruth, the Gospels, the whole New Testament, Revelation

• Which work cost God the most?

- God breathes into existence entire universes

• The creation we see is under the curse

• Redemption is revealed supernaturally by his Word

Genesis 3:23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Genesis 4:1-2 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. 2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

• Don’t presume that one calling is above another, there are documents claiming that shepherding was a higher call this is nonsense

Genesis 4:3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.

• That seems natural enough he's a farmer, he’s tilling the soil, he grows crops, and he brings the fruit of the ground as an offering to the Lord

Genesis 4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: 5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

• There's a concept in business that you ought to know your market, if you are selling a product you ought to know what your buyer prefers 

Genesis 4:6 And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

What Was Cain’s Mistake?

- He did not deny the existence of God; was he a Believer? Yes! There is scholastic traditions with reasons to believe that in this time the way offering was accepted by God was accepted literally. Not through the pastor or through the Church or the priesthood. Fire came down from heaven and consumed it!

- He did not refuse to worship Him;

- He was not in rebellion

- He simply failed to satisfy God by approaching Him on the revealed basis of vicarious atonement.

• Cain: a sacrifice of works = a setting aside of God’s Word.

Our “Way of Cain”

• “Christians” have those same qualities…

• How do we know God's attitude towards our approach is any different than God's reaction to Cain’s?

The Hall of Faith:

 Hebrews 11:1-3 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

• What was there about Abel’s offering?

- Made by faith

 - “Faith comes by hearing...” Romans 10:17

• Abel had heard something not detailed in the summary in Genesis

Abel’s offering was in response to a commandment

Genesis 4:1-7...Abel, a sacrifice by faith

• These insights are not open to the casual readers of the book of Genesis

Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

• Adam walked with God, Adam was perfect, from the Psalms and some other places in the scripture we can draw the Biblical inference …

• They had been clothed with light before they sinned

• After they sinned, they were no longer righteous, they lost that covering, what they did caused them to realize that they had lost that covering

• By being conscious of that they attempted to clothed themselves

• So, they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons

Genesis 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. 21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

• Adam and Eve had garments that were apparently inadequate

• God made coats of skins and clothed them

• The fact that God personally did that should get our attention

• If we just had Genesis 3:21, we would be out on the limb

- But if we take the rest of the Torah, Exodus and the Passover lamb, and Leviticus and wrap it all together

• We discover that from Genesis 3 through Revelation 19

- God consistently presents the principle that without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. “without the shedding of blood there is no remission” (Hebrews 9:22).

• As we really understand the whole scripture

- We recognize a preoccupation with shed blood

• We miss the vivid object lessons of Judaism in the Old Testament

- God, throughout Israel’s history ordained rituals

• The slaughtering of animals, shedding their blood

• The Tabernacle’s nickname is “The House of Blood “

• The Temple had special aqueducts for the blood to flow

• All of the barbaric ritual is God's way of showing us that sin is serious, that sin has to be paid for

- Not by the blood of sheep and goats, that's just the model a tutorial

- It all points to the sacrifice on the cross

• I'm suggesting to you that the cross was preached in Genesis 3:20-21

• Do you notice why Adam called Eve the mother of all living? Because of these coats of skin

• Suggesting the cross was preached in Genesis 3:21  

• Some believe the altar was at the gate

- They were outside the garden but instructed to bring offerings to the altar

• God instituted the Levitical system in Genesis 3:21

- Elaboration is found in Genesis 22, (Gensis 22 is the most fascinating Prophecy Study in the Bible) when Abraham offers Isaac, and 2,000 years later another Father would be offering His Son on that hill and Abraham knew that. (Hebrews 3; Romans 4)

• This presumes and amplifies a sacrifice long before Moses

• God instituted the concept of the faith offering the blood sacrifice as prophetically pointing to Jesus Christ, as earliest Adam and Eve. Now we can look at Cain with much more insight 

- “Without the shedding of blood there is no remission” (Hebrews 9:22).

• Cain was a tiller of the soil - no problems there

• Abel was a tender of the sheep - we have a problem with that

- They didn't eat meat, not until after the flood, meat was forbidden

• What are they doing raising sheep?

- Wool for clothing? Offerings?

• Able’s offering was by faith (Hebrews 11:4)

• What’s Cain doing then?

- He failed satisfy God by approaching Him on the revealed basis of vicarious atonement

• God had ordained then and still does today tell us that the only way we can approach God is by shed blood of Jesus Christ

• Cain didn't do that, he brought the works of his own hands

• The way of Cain: to blaspheme God, declaring His Salvation incomplete by trying to add to it

There's two ways to get to heaven

Plan A Is by works

Plan B Is, hey we can't do it we need help

We can't make it by our own efforts

- “There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end there are all the ways of

death” Proverbs 16:25

The basis for our approach to God is His completed work on our behalf

Our attempts to add to that is blasphemy

- Good works are not an attempt to earn anything

- Attempting to earn a position with the Lord declares the position you have by faith in Christ is inadequate

• Cain perished because of it; he was made an example for us to avoid

• God wants offerings by faith, not works

That's what the way of Cain is all about

- The blasphemy of God by declaring His salvation is incomplete through our attempts to add something to it

• We can't add anything to the completed work of Jesus Christ on the cross-no matter what we do

• Faith versus works reverberates throughout all of scripture

- It starts right here with Cain and Abel

- Both were believers; both brought offerings; one was saved, one was not saved. One followed God's instructions, one chose his own way, and it didn’t work

Error of Balaam:

Greek Balaam -  “ran riotously,” “have been poured forth,” “rampage.”

• They are lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God (2 Timothy 3:4).

Balaam: A prophet greedy for gold, hired by the enemies of the people of God to curse them; warned not to by God (Numbers 22:12).

- Balaam was a prophet, he was not  a false prophet, he had a gift,

Numbers 24:15-17 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: 16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open: 17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.

• Some believe that this is the Christmas Star

• Balaam has some prophecies, some important  

- He is best known for his major “screw ups”

- Greedy for gold, hired by the enemies of the people of God to curse them; warned not to by God (Numbers 22:12)

Numbers 22:1-33

• Who is the Angel of the LORD?

- He allows himself to be worshipped

• Most believe that the Angel of the LORD is the Lord Jesus Christ (Joshua 5)

- Old Testament  appearance, the pre-incarnate Jesus Christ

• Not satisfied with this (sufficient) answer, he makes a further request to go, and is given permission but not allowed to utter anything but blessings. Basically he was a hireling.

- Moses’ summary (Deuteronomy 23:4,5).

Deuteronomy 23:1-5 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

• Link verse 2 to Ruth 4:18-22

Deuteronomy 23:3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord for ever: 4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. 5 Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee.

• Deprived of rewards promised by Balak, King of Moab, Balaam’s covetous heart conceived an evil thought:

- As you recall, they were camped by the borders of Moab.

• If he could counsel the women of Midian and Moab to tempt the Israelites and cause them to sin,

• God would have to punish His people:

- Balak’s purpose would be served, and Balaam would be rich.

• The seduction worked (Numbers 25:2,3; 31:16)

- How did they get that insight? From Balaam’s council.

Numbers 31:15-17 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

The Error of Balaam for Hire:

• “Error of Balaam” Jude 11

- Natural reasoning = supposed a righteous God had to curse the evident immorality in Israel

· Sacrificing of eternal riches for temporal gain. Lust for the “pleasures of sin for a season”; greed for the “treasures of Egypt” (Hebrews 11:25; Mark 8:36). Demas: “Having loved this present world” (2 Timothy 4:10). Cf. “Error of Balaam” (Jude 11): natural reasoning = supposed a righteous God had to curse the evident immorality in Israel.

• “Way of Balaam” (2 Peter 2:15):

- A Hireling = making a “market” for his gift.

• “Doctrine of Balaam” (Revelation 2:14):

Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

- Spiritual unchastity; marriage with the world.

• Balaam took the way of Cain,

- Lived riotously afterward, he got his reward from Balak

- But perished miserably with the enemies of God at last (Joshua 13:22).

• Sacrificing of eternal riches for temporal gain

• Lust for the “pleasures of sin for a season”

• Greed for the “treasures of Egypt” (Hebrews 11:25; Mark 8:36)

• Demas: “Having loved this present world” (2 Timothy 4:10)

• The passion for worldly enticements to interfere with your eternal riches

• You know many times people say, “Well what's wrong with doing X?”

• That’s not the question, what’s right about it?

• •  The issue is does it get in the way of your relationship with Jesus Christ? Things don't have to be great momentous sins to separate you from God.

• A light touch on the things of this world, that’s our challenge

Rebellion of Korah:

(Note: Not in chronological order...(Numbers 16)

- Chronologically it should have been Cain, Korah, and Balaam

• Jude is illustrating a process that occurs

- The Way of Cain

- The Error of Balaam

- The Rebellion of Korah

• In your Bible it may say, the Gainsaying of Korah

• “Gainsaying”: Greek antilogia = “against the word.”

• Korah was a Levite and a cousin to Moses (Exodus 6:18-21).

• Under his leadership, He and his associates, Dathan and Abiram,

- Rejected God’s appointed mediator Moses... and went down alive into the pit (Numbers 16:31-3).

• They rebelled against the type of Christ (Hebrews 3);

• They dared to think “all are holy” (Numbers 16:3):

Numbers 16:1-3 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men: 2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:

3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord?

• Are all are sons of God? (Genesis 3:5)

- “Ye are of your father the devil…” (John 8:44)

• That was Jesus comment on the Brotherhood of Man

• Is a mediator needed? Moses was a type

- Jesus said, “I am the way the truth and the life, no man comes to the father but by me” (John 14:6);

• Only One Way

• Is the Cross unnecessary? 3 times! (Matthew 26:36-44);

- Gethsemane means “The oil press”

- He took with Him Peter, James, and John. Judas was gone to betray Him.

- How many were left behind? Eight, how many were left in the Ark eight.

Matthew 26:36-44 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. 39 And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as

thou wilt. 40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? 41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. 43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. 44 And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.

- If there is any other way for anybody ever to get into heaven other than the way of the cross, did Jesus Christ died in vain and his prayer was not answered

• We like to think the way is much bigger than that

- “Narrow is the way and straight is the gate that leads to salvation. But broad is the gate that leads to destruction.” (Matthew 7:13-14)

• Korah and the guys that rebelled against Moses didn't feel that Moses had any special ordination

- They are about to get a lesson on Moses ordination

Numbers 16:28-33 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind. 29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath not sent me. 30 But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord. 31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: 32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.

• Jude places Korah third; by doing that Cain, Balaam, and Korah describe a process

- They choose a way

- They rush headlong into that way

- They perish at the end

• The craftsmanship of the book of Jude

- The Holy Spirit skillfully picks every word and has structured this precisely

Woe unto Apostates (Luke 10:1-16).

All three statements in Jude 11 are in the past tense: those who go the way of Cain ... have already perished.

The Coming Grand Apostasy (2 Thessalonians 2:10-12)

• All of what Jude is talking about is prophetic

2 Thessalonians 2:1-5 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

• This is a flash future

2 Thessalonians 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with

all power and signs and lying wonders,

• This guy is not a phony, he’s not a charlatan, he is not pretending

- Some Greek words used of the miracles in the Gospels

2 Thessalonians 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

• Not just a lie, they will believe the lie

- The ultimate lie, this is a definite article

2 Thessalonians 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

• The only way to get through this is to be supernaturally selected by God and empowered by the Holy Spirit

• There is an ultimate super apostasy coming

- We are very close, we are on the threshold of seeing it happen

• All three statements in June 11 are past tense

- Those who go the way of Cain

- Run greedily after the error of Balaam

- Participate in the rebellion of Korah  

• Have already perished

Jude 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;

Hidden Rocks:

“Spots” From “spilas (4694)”, a ledge of rock (over which the sea dashes), i.e. a reef.

• Greek: Reefs below the ocean, threatening safe navigation

- Rocks that are known are less of a problem…! These guys came to eat and to plunder. There are people hidden among us who are really not of the Body of Christ

“Feasts of charity”

• Agape feasts; abuses rebuked 1 Corinthians 11:21

- Some began to “pasture” themselves

Clouds Without Water:

• Deceit and discouragement = thirsty (Proverbs 25:14)

- Opposite of Luke 12:54

• “Without water” = “dry places” where evil spirits are said to wander (Matthew 12:43)

• “Carried aside by winds”; winds = ruach (Old Testament) = pneuma (New Testament) John 3:8 (Same word for Spirit)

- They are bondslaves to Satan

- Clouds never go where it pleases, it goes where the winds carry it

Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Jude 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

Autumn Trees:

• Greek “autumn” + “to wane” = Late Autumn Trees (fruitless)

• Harvest is ripe

- Believers are to be gathered into His barn (Matthew 13:30)

- Others are rooted up (Matthew 15:13)

- Transgressors are rooted out (Proverbs 2:22)

• “Twice Dead”

- Dead to the fruit of profession (1 Timothy 5:6)

- Dead to the fruit of possession = second death (Revelation 20:14)

Revelation 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second 

death.

• All of us have two deaths it's important in what order they come, our second death was taken care of at the cross. So, the death that remains has no fear for us.

• Tragic for those who’s got it in the wrong order, the second death is final

• Contrasted to these trees are the trees planted by the rivers of living waters Psalms 1:3; Jeremiah 17: 7,8

Wild Waves:

• Sea = People who do not know God (Isaiah 57:20-21)

-Idiomatically the sea is always used of humanity it’s crass, self-serving, unhappy, state

• God has imposed limits on the sea (Psalms 104:9)

• Nothing shall hurt you Luke 10:19

• All to account to His glory 1 Peter 2:12

• He rules, stills, the sea Psalms 89:9

- He rebuked the sea Matthew 8:26 Who’s causing that storm? Satan

- In the New World, New Heaven New Earth, “there was no more sea” Revelation 21:1

- Speaking idiomatically, there’s something negative consistently used about that idiom, in any case these apostates are raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame

Wandering Stars:

The phrase implied here is …

• Meteorite: Falling star

- Illumination derived

- Flashing brilliantly for a brief time

• Stars in orbits are ordained by their Creator

- Or destined for the blackness of (outer) darkness forever Matthew 8:12

• Black holes 

- Certain stars have no light because light can't escape from it

- Draws all into it because of the intense gravitational pull, even light can’t leave it

- It is believed that within them “Time does not exist”

- “These are wandering stars not in orbit, without ordination to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.“

- These guys spiritually speaking is destined for a black hole

Five Word Pictures:

Selected and assembled in a definite order (e.g., craftsmanship!)

Graph                                     Significance

Hidden rocks                          Unseen danger

Waterless clouds                    False promise

Autumnal trees                      Barren profession

Raging waves                         Wasted effort

Wandering stars                     Aimless course

• These five graphical ideas present the same downward degeneration as verse 11

Summary:

Five graphs present the same downward degeneration as v. 11: Men present at Christian love-feasts...

     ...carried away;

     ...fruitless, uprooted, dead;

     ...shame, outer darkness their territory.

Contrast With Our Lord:

Hidden rock threatening shipwreck                     Rock of Our Salvation

Clouds with no blessing                                       He who Comes With Clouds

Trees of death                                                      Tree of Life

Restless troubled sea                                           Leads Beside Still Waters

Wandering stars in darkness                                Bright and Morning Star

Contrast With True Believers:

Dangerous Rocks              Living Stones                           1 Peter 2:5

Waterless Clouds               Sources of Living Water          John 7:38

Dead Trees                        Trees of Righteousness            Isaiah 61:3

Raging Waves                   Peace like a River...                   Isaiah 48:18

Wandering Stars               Shine as Stars forever              Daniel 12:3

Observe the craftsmanship of the Holy Spirit!

Homework for Next Time: “Methuselah was the oldest man in the Bible; yet he died before his father...”? (Genesis 5). Enoch

Jude 14-16  

Jude Session 7 (Verses 14-16)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFTIt4InnR0

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.

Prophecy Before the Flood:

• The earliest recorded prophecy by a prophet

- Genesis 3:15 is a prophecy uttered by the LORD Himself as He declared war on Satan

• If it were not for Jude, we would know practically nothing about prophecy before the flood.

• We know of cities, cattle raising, fine arts, education, and manufacturing (Genesis 4:17-22).  

- But prophecy doesn’t show up there

• Enoch is the only prophet whose words are preserved for us  

- [Words similar to Jude’s appear in the apocryphal Book of Enoch, a patchwork of fanciful and unscriptural material.]

Review: Examples of “New Revelations” by Way of Allusions

Jude: Michael’s dispute over body of Moses            Jude 9

Peter: Noah as a preacher of righteousness             2 Peter 2:5

Paul: Names of the two magicians in Egypt              2 Timothy 3:8

Words of Christ not in Gospels                                  Acts 20:35

James: Elijah prayed to stop rain for 3 1/2 years       James 5:17

• Don’t get uncomfortable with the idea that Holy Spirit has preserved this truth even though the form of it is an allusion to something the writer presumes you already know

Enoch:

Enoch: “Seventh from Adam.”

- Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch

- vs. there was another Enoch, (bad apple) son of Cain in Genesis 4:17

• Genesis 4:26 has a misunderstanding in it

• Descendants of Cain Genesis 4:1-24

- Some names are used often, common names at the time

• The birth of Seth found in Genesis 4:25

Genesis 4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name 

Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

Call on the Name of the LORD:

• Didn’t Abel and Adam, and others call on the Name of the Lord?  

• What happened in verse 26 with the son of Seth?

- It’s slightly mistranslated

“Then men began to profane the name of the Lord” (Genesis 4:26)

• Genesis 4:26 International Standard Version Seth also fathered a son, whom he named Enosh. At that time, profaning the name of the LORD began.

• “Then men began to profane the name of the Lord” (Genesis 4:26).

- 19 commentaries out of 20 don’t bring this out

• In the Hebrew text it reads - “Call something by the name of the Lord...”

- They “Called something else the name of the Lord”

- They are profaning the name of the Lord

Ancient texts read as follows…

• Targum of Onkelos: “...desisted from praying in the name...”

• Targum of Jonathan: “Surnamed their idols in the name...”

• Kimchi, Rashi, & other ancient Jewish commentators agree

• Jerome indicated this opinion of many Jews of his day.

• Maimonides, Commentary on the Mishna (Is a constituent part of the Talmud), A.D. 1168, ascribes the origin of idolatry to the days of Enos.

Before the Flood:

• We have a very myopic, naïve view of the period before Genesis 6  

• We have many misconceptions about Adam & Eve and their descendants

- Adam probably lived to see 5 million people, his offspring

• Make a chart and lay out their life spans and calculate how many children each person could possibly have

- Recognize that their long-life spans can be taken literally

- Their life spans also overlapped by many years

- In the time of Noah there were 5-7 key people still alive

- Shem, the son of Noah, lived 54 years after Abram was born

• So, you get a whole different perspective of this early era because of these extremely long-life longevities

• By the end of Genesis 4 we find apostasy, rebellion against the Name of God

- Adam and Eve and there forebearers lived outside of the Garden, but not far away.

• We jump to a lot of conclusions because the record we have is such a summary.

Four Hebrew words for “Man”:

Adam          “origin”           the “dust of the adamah” (ground)

Ish               “sex”               a male

Geber         “strength”        a mighty man

Enosh         “infirmities”      a physically mortal; character - incurable a loser (used over 500 times)

Enos =         frail, weak, sickly, incurable:

• In his days men began to profane the name of the Lord, when you understand that, that gives rise to the raising of a prophet and that’s where Enoch comes in

Enosh:

• Third from Adam: Enosh is the third from Adam: Adam, Seth, Enosh, he’s Adams

grandson

• Third from Moses (grandson) Jonathan, was the first idolatrous priest in Israel (Judges 18:30)

• Son of Seth: Destroys the “line of Seth” theory of Genesis 6. If the line of Seth was so good, let’s take a look at his first son. That was “Enosh”, you see that whole theory is based on a misunderstanding of verse 4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

Genesis 5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: 22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

• Enoch did not die, he was translated

• There are two people who did not see death

- Enoch was one of them Genesis 5:21-24; Hebrews 11:5-6

- Elijah is the other one 2 Kings 2:1-14

• Enoch was translated midway between Adam and Abraham; Enoch was Gentile

• Elijah, midway between Abraham and Christ; Elijah was Jewish

• Both of these men ministered in times of deep apostasy.

• Enoch walked with God “by Faith” (Hebrews 11:5).

• This was not a casual stroll

- (verse 22 continues in verse 24: 300 years later!)

• That walk involved several things

- Agreement; surrender, witness for 300 years (Amos 3:3)

- Enoch had to surrender to God every day

- That leads to a witness down through the millennia of time

- This privilege is available today! (Colossians 2:6; Galatians 5:25; 2 Corinthians 5:7)

Colossians 2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:

Galatians 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

• Enoch’s earliest prophecy was not these words in Jude,

- But the name of his son Methuselah (Noah’s grandfather):

• Enoch had a revelation

• Enoch had a son

• Enoch then, walked with God, the result was then this prophecy  

• Methuselah: “Muth (4191)” = “to die” (found 125 times in the Old Testament; 8 times in Genesis 5 alone)

Shalak = “to send forth” (used over 60 times in Old Testament: send judgment on the earth, plagues of Egypt, famine, fire, pestilence of prophets, etc.)

• MuthShalak makes up the word, Methuselah

Names in the Bible have meaning:

• Eve = life-giver; mother of all living (Genesis 3:20)

• Cain = acquired (Genesis 4:4)

• Seth = appointed (Genesis 4:25)

• Abraham = father of many nations (Genesis 17:5)

• Enoch = teaching; initiation; or commencement.

• Methuselah = when he dies it shall be sent

· When Methuselah died, judgment was sent. Jewish tradition says that he died seven days before the Flood.                                                                                                                               

• Methuselah’s life becomes a model of grace and longsuffering:

- He is the oldest man in the Bible (969 years—Genesis 5:27). - Enoch “walked with God” after he begat Methuselah (Genesis 5:21-24).

- He received the revelation ... named his son ... became a prophet.

 - [Was his incentive any different than ours?]

- God is not willing that any perish (2 Peter 3:8,9).

Four Facts Emphasized by Enoch’s Prophecy:

• Enoch’s prophecy is of the Lord’s Second Coming

1) We know the Lord’s coming is sure;  

2) We know who will accompany the Lord;

3) We know the purpose of His coming;

4) We know the result of the Lord’s coming.

Jude 14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

1) We Know the Lord’s Coming is Sure:

- We have the assurance of this prophecy spoken in the past tense (Cf. Revelation 19:11-14).

• Written as history, but written in advance

- Like history, nothing can change it.

• These prophecies are written the same way

• They are not contingent on anything 

- He is “able to subdue all things to Himself” (Philippians 3:21)

2) We Know Who Will Accompany the Lord:

• He will come “with His holy myriads”: “myriads” found in other passages (Zechariah 14:5; Revelation 19:4; Daniel 7:10).

• Moses: ten thousands of “holy ones” (Deuteronomy 33:2) = Angels (Acts 7:53; Galatians 3:19)

• Christ’s return: “All the holy angels” (Matthew 25:31);

- Believers also (Colossians 3:4; 1 Thessalonians 3:13);

- “we shall judge angels” (1 Corinthians 6:2,3)

3) We Know the Purpose of His Coming:

- First and last prophecy (Revelation 22:20) given through a man focuses on His Second Coming in judgment.

• First prophecy came through Enoch

- He will come to bring judgment (krisis) (Hebrews 9:26-28).

Hebrews 9:26-28 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of

the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

• “krisis” is used of Sodom (Luke 10:14);

• “a certain fearful looking for krisis” (Hebrews 10:27);

• “the day of krisis ...of ungodly men” (2 Peter 3:7)   

- The use of that word, is the judgement of the unsaved

John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

• Word used is krisis                                              

No believer will ever come into krisis (John 5:24);

• A Believer before the Judgement Seat of Christ uses a different word

• A different word is used: This is the Bema Seat (Romans 14:10; 2 Corinthians 5:10) where the judge sat to pass out the rewards at the end of the race

• There is a different kind of judgement for believers

- Apocryphal “Book of Enoch” error: “

• “He comes with myriads of saints to execute judgement on them.”

• Book of Enoch was written by a fraud, a false prophet

• It was not written by Enoch

“ All”: Who will be judged?

• He cometh to judge the earth (Psalms 96:13).

• ...all nations (Joel 3:12; Matthew 25:32).

• ...with their cities (Matthew 11:22; 12:41).

• ...every man, living or dead (2 Timothy 4:1; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9).

• ...fallen angels (verse 6) et al. (Isaiah 24:21).

• ...and demons (Matthew 8:29).

Who will be this judge?

“The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment to the Son” (John 5:22) • “...according to truth...deeds... my gospel” (Romans 2:2,6,16).

Romans 2:2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

4. We Know the Result of the Lord’s Coming:

- All the ungodly will be convicted of all their works of ungodliness...

• Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire (Matthew 25:31-46);

• books opened...according to their works (Revelation 20:11-15);

• heavens and earth reserved unto fire... (2 Peter 3:7)

- ...which they have ungodly wrought.

• He looks at the heart (1 Samuel 16:7)

- ...hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him

•...every idle word which men shall speak (Matthew 12:36).

• The description of the Anti-Christ in scripture is a Big Mouth (Revelation 13; Daniel 8)

Enoch’s Role In Prophecy:

• Much is said about Noah and the Ark

- Noah is called by God to build this barge, ark - 8 people are saved

- There is no reason to believe that Noah had only three sons!

- Made the ark, miraculously preserved through the flood

• Where would you have the Ark land after the flood?

- The Ark’s resting place was by God’s design

- It was placed on a geographically unstable mountain, where it is too high to live

- God seems to have placed the ark in a place where it is impossible to use it as timber, etc.

• 14,000 feet plus on Mount Ararat, with very inhospitable conditions

- It is preserved in ice

• The Ark was sealed inside and outside with pitch in Genesis 6:14

- It was built to be preserved; it was deposited to be preserved

• Hypothesis – The Ark’s role is prophetically not over

- It was a testimony to an unbelieving world of coming judgment back when it was built, it will be again

- It implies A testimony to the reality of Genesis 6 and the reality of Noah

- God intervenes in the lives of men, and he holds them accountable

• Pitch: The word “pitch” within and without in Genesis 6, is used throughout scripture, but it’s translated “pitch” only in that chapter

- Everywhere else in the Old Testament “pitch” is translated = Atonement

- There is a gigantic “pun” here

• These eight people were preserved by Atonement

- The ark is a type of Christ preserving the chosen through the judgment to become a new beginning at the end

- The ark when it comes to rest, when they leave the ark, the Holy Spirit tells us it was the 17^th day of the 7^th month. In the book of Exodus when the Passover is Instituted, He makes that month, the first of the month. The Passover is on the 14^th of Nissan, which in Genesis is the seventh.  

- If Jesus Christ is crucified on the 14^th of Nissan, what happens 3 days later? His resurrection. You mean to tell me that God let Noah leave the ark on the third day after the 14^th on the Anniversary thousands of years in advance of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ? Absolutely!

- It's mind blowing how the Lord orchestrates all of this

• Is the ark a type of the believer?

- The ark is not removed from the judgment, it was preserved through it

- There is a difference between it and the Church

• “not appointed unto wrath, but unto salvation” (1 Thessalonians 5:9)

• “I will keep you from the time of tribulation” (Revelation 3:20)

• The Ark is a type of Israel, preserved through tribulation

• Where is the Church?

- The Church is non-Jewish – Enoch

- Enoch was removed from the scene before the judgment

Note: Rapture Models in the Old Testament

• Enoch’s translation before promised judgment (cf. Noah’s Ark, preserved through judgment.

• Lot’s deliverance from Sodom prior to judgment.

• Nebuchadnezzar’s fiery furnace: WHERE WAS DANIEL? (Daniel 3)

- When the music plays everyone was to bow down to the image

- Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to bow down

• Nebuchadnezzar built the image 66 cubits high and 6 cubits wide - he commanded everyone to bow down

- Nebuchadnezzar is a type of Anti-Christ

- Forces all to worship him at the pain of death

• Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego a type of Israel

- They are in the fiery furnace fire is an idiom of the tribulation in the Old Testament, they are preserved through the fiery furnace they are not kept out of the furnace

- Fire = Tribulation no harm came to them

• Where is Daniel?

- He was not around, for whatever reason, at that time he was probably on an errand of the state, and his enemies used that time to attack his second string

Enoch’s Role In Prophecy Pre-Trib Rapture:

• Lot’s deliverance from Sodom prior to judgement

- It was clear as Abraham was interceding for Lot if there was one righteous the judgement would have been stayed

- The two angels get Lot out of Sodom

• They could not carry out the mission until Lot was gone!  

• The Seventy Weeks Prophecy (Daniel 9)

• A period of time of 69 weeks; then 1 week after that

- Scope verse, (Daniel 9:24)

- Detailed description of the 69 weeks (Daniel 9:25)

- Description of events between 69^th and 70^th week (Daniel 9:26)

- Description of the 70th week (Daniel 9:27)

• There is a gap between 69^th ( ) 70^th  weeks

- That ( ) is paramount to understanding the 70 weeks prophecy of Daniel

- The same gap is in Revelation 12:5-6

“Dispensational Breaks”

• Israel and the Church are “mutually exclusive” (Daniel 9). [See the list below for 24 dispensational “gaps” in Scripture.]

1) Genesis 1:1-2         2) Psalms 22:21-22        3) Psalms 118:22

4) Isaiah 9:6               5) Isaiah 53:10               6) Isaiah 61:2

7) Lam 4:21-22          8) Daniel 9:26-27          9) Daniel 11:20-21

10) Hosea 2:13-14    11) Hosea 3:4-5             12) Amos 9:10-11

13) Micah 5:2-3       14) Hab 2:13-14             15) Zephaniah 3:7-8

16) Zech 10:9-10     17) Matthew 10:23         18) Matthew 12:20

19) Luke 1:31-32     20) Luke 4:18-20             21) Luke 21:24   

22) John 1:5-6        23) 1 Peter 1:11               24) Revelation 12:5-6                                   In all of those God's dealing with Israel and God's dealing with the Church are mutually

exclusive. 12 Israel 12 Church = 24

• When Israel rejects her Messiah the positioning of the Church is established

- From then (Age of Grace) until the Rapture is clearly a parenthesis in which God’s focus is on the Gentiles /Church

- Believers in the Old Testament and prior to the Church; they are believers

- The apostles were sent to Israel, two by two a specific mission set up there

- There is an era that we enjoy, we take it all for granted, very peculiar things abound to us that were not true then and are just unique to us …the Church

• There will come a time when that is over, God will have accomplished His purpose

- God will again choose to deal with the world through Israel

- The insight to unraveling the Book of Revelation is to understand it’s Jewishness: Chapters 4 – to the end are Jewish; Israel

- The 7 letters to the 7 Churches are a Gentile parenthesis

Enoch’s Role in Prophecy:

• Ruth and Boaz

- Naomi represents Israel

- Boaz is the kinsman redeemer

- Ruth is the Gentile Bride

• Where was Ruth during the Threshing floor scene?

- At the feet of Boaz (Ruth 3)

• There Are Two Models of the Rapture in the Old Testament:

• Explicit in Isaiah 26:19-21; Zephaniah 2:3

Isaiah 26:19-21 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. 

Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. 20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. 21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Zephaniah 2:3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

Amos 8:9-10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up 

sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

• This is talking about crucifixion of Christ (Amos 8:9-10)

Jude 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.

Occurrences of “Dispensational Breaks”

Book                          Gap Evident

1) Genesis 1                1, 2                                      *

2) Psalms 22               21, 22                                  *

3) Psalms 118             middle of verse 22               *

4) Isaiah 9:6               after first clause                   *

5) Isaiah 53                middle of verse 10               *

6) Isaiah 61                 middle of verse 2                *

7) Lamentations 4      21, 22                                  *

8) Daniel 9                  26, 27                                  *

9) Daniel 11                 20, 21                                  *

10) Hosea 2                 13, 14                                  *

11) Hosea 3                  4, 5                                     *

12) Amos 9                  10, 11                                 *

13) Micah 5                  2, 3                                    *

14) Habakkuk 2            13, 14                                *

15) Zephaniah 9           7, 8                                    *

16) Zechariah 10          9, 10                                   *

17) Matthew 10           middle of verse 23             ( )

18) Matthew 12           middle of verse 20              *

19) Luke 1                    31, 32                                  *

20) Luke 4                    18-20 (our Lord quoting Isaiah 61:1,2)

21) Luke 21                  middle of verse 24             *

22) John 1                    5, 6                                     ?

23) 1 Peter 1               middle of verse 11              ?

24) Revelation 12        5, 6                                     *

Recognition of An Apostate:

• This is how you recognize an apostate!

- “These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts …

• Complainers – Angels’ dissatisfaction with their assigned place

Walking after their own lusts – Sodom and Gomorrah

Jude 16-25

Recognition of an Apostate:  

The Church will be without excuse if it fails to recognize apostates when they appear (verses 8, 10, 12, 13...).

1) Murmurers – Israel in the wilderness verse 5

2) complainers... Angels’ dissatisfaction with their assigned place;

3) walking after their own lusts... Sodom and Gomorrah.

Murmurers:

• The noun “murmurers” is found nowhere else in the New Testament. The verb form is found in several passages:

• “Jews murmured at Him...Bread of Life (John 6:41).

• “Disciples murmured...walked no more... (John 6:61,66; Ephesians 2:2,3).

• Murmuring was a sin of no minor importance: it is the hallmark of apostasy (Psalms 106:24-26; 1 Corinthians 10:10)

Complainers:                                                                                                               Again, this noun is found nowhere else in the New Testament.

• Pharisees “found fault” ...traditions... (Mark 7:2,6,8).

- Making the Word of God of no effect through tradition is a form of apostasy wherever it is found.

• Faultfinding may mark a professing Christian as one who has turned his back upon the truth! Complainers may be apostates (verses 8,10; cf. 2 Corinthians 11:15; 1 Corinthians 5:11).

- “ ...displeased the Lord in the Days of Moses” (Numbers 11:1);

- “ ...displeased the Lord” (Mark 7);

- “ ...Today”? Compare “those dissatisfied with their lot” (angels verse 6) with

- “whatsoever state we’re in” (Philippians 4:11).

Walking After Their Own Lusts:

• This is the same word as the Lord uses in the Parable of the Sower (Mark 4:18,19). “

- ...scoffers, walking after their own lusts...” (2 Peter 3:3:5).

Trio in the Old Testament, mixed multitude (with Israel, not of Israel):

• Murmurers (Numbers 14:2);

• Complainers (Numbers 11:1);

• “Fell a lusting” (Numbers 11:4).

Their Mouth Speaketh Great Swelling Words:

• This is the same expression found in 2 Peter 2:15-21;

- the Doctrine of Demons (1 Timothy 4:1);

- Identified of the Last Leader Anti-Christ (2 Thessalonians 2:3, 11; Revelation 13:5,6).             • Having Men’s Persons in Admiration...                                                                            - “Professionalism” replacing the call of the Holy Spirit (cf. the Calvary Chapel history: read the book Harvest by Chuck Smith).

Jude Session 8 (Verses 17-25)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbLAk_M7eYE

Jude 17-25

17] But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

• Remember the word (Word)

• Jude opened with quotes from the Old Testament

- He closes with references to words spoken by the apostles

• Protection against apostacy – To remember the words

- Remember implies you know the words; it also implies you have read the words

• You cling to the Word of God

- Remember, cherish, and rejoice: HIS WORD (Proverbs 30:5)

- Rejoice …as those who find great spoil (Psalms 119:162)

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.

Remember The Word:

• The Doctrine of Inspiration is Paramount:  

- Not in man’s wisdom, but by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:13)

1 Corinthians 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom 

teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

2 Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

• The Primary Mission of these Studies:

- To know’ love, understand, to be passionate about, and to know the Supernatural origin and role of the Word of God

Apostolic Warnings:

The apostle Paul warned of grievous wolves , not sparing the flock (Acts 20:28-30)

Acts 20:28-30 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which 

the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous 

wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Also of your own selves shall men 

arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

• Paul was warning the Ephesian Church

- “Christian” cults go after members of the Body of Christ  

- They don’t bother with the unsaved

- Built around some extravagant truth

• Fail to embrace the whole council of God

• The Lord Jesus Christ authored “Seven Epistles” Revelation chapter 2 and 3

Revelation 2:1-2 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; 2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

Four Levels of Meaning:

There appear to be at least four levels of application to these letters:

1. Local: These were actual, historic churches, with valid needs. Archaeological discoveries have confirmed this.
2. Admonitory: In each of the letters there appears the key phrase, "Hear what the Spirit says to the churches". Note the plural, churches. It turns out that each of the letters applies to all churches throughout history. As we understand the sevenfold internal structure, the uniquely tailored messages, and the specific admonitions in each of the letters, we discover that any church can be "mapped" in terms of these seven composite profiles.
3. Homiletic: Each of the letters also contains the phrase, "He that hath an ear let him hear..." Doesn't each of us "have an ear"? Each letter applies to each of us. There are some elements of each of these seven "churches" in each of us. Thus, this may be the most practical application of the entire Book of Revelation.
4. Prophetic: The most amazing discovery, however, of these seven letters is their apparent prophetic application. These letters describe, with remarkable precision, the unfolding of all subsequent church history.

• These letters describe, with remarkable precision, the unfolding of all subsequent church history. If these letters were in any other order, this would not be true!

• These letters appear to fill the interval between the 69th and 70th "weeks" of Daniel 9. The Book of Acts covers about 30 years; these two chapters of the Book of Revelation cover the next 1,900 years.

Revelation 2:3-5 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. 4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because 

thou hast left thy first love. 5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and  

repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy 

candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

Epheses:

Meaning - The Desired One

• Jesus: The Church at Ephesus, they were doctrinally sound

- But they had lost their first love for Jesus Christ (Revelation 2:1-7)

- They were so busy about the Lord’s business, that they had no time for the King

2 Peter 3:1-3 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: 2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

• The Second Coming and the Creation are linked, they both are based upon the premise that there is a God, who intervenes in history. A disbelief in one leads to a disbelief in the other.

• Peter: Scoffers, after their own lusts (2 Peter 3:1-4)

- Willing ignorance; deliberate rejection

Jude 1:19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

• They who make separations verse 19

Martin Luther: Translated this, “those who make factions”

- Those who bring about divisions because of borderlines, or limits = sin, in the sense of the law

• Not just ecclesiastical doctrines

Obverse: The reverse of this idea, the positive side is (1 Corinthians 11:19)

• Why is it, that in general you find a minister who is right on just about everything but one thing? But there is always something that you may stumble on.

1 Corinthians 11:19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

- This problem is not a local one, it’s not a problem that’s just unique to Jude it is intrinsic in the whole gamut of building the Body.

3 John 1:9-10 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. 10 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember 

his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content 

therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.

Who Make Separations:

• Diotrephes caused division in the Church;

- He refused to receive John; he loved his own preeminence …

• Christ is to have the preeminence (Colossians 1:18)

• Let each esteem the other better…(Philippians 2:3)

• Diotrephes was an apostate:

- Speaking evil of John, malicious words;

- Refusing to receive the brethren;

- Forbidding others who would have done so;

- Even casting brethren out of the church;

3 John 1:11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

Sensual:

• This is not lasciviousness verse 4

- Not walking after ungodly lusts verse 6

• The Greek word is “psychikos”

• It is “soulish”, in the realm of the senses

Deuteronomy 6:4-5 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Mark 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and 

with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

• Jesus added a phrase

• Tripartite Man: Spirit, Soul, and Body (1 Thessalonians 5:23)

1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our 

Lord Jesus Christ.

Blueprint of a Believer - Nan's Corner: by Nancy Missler • August 1, 1997

https://www.khouse.org/articles/1997/21/

The Temple of Solomon:

• I believe Paul is making a correlation (in the two above Scriptures) between Solomon's Temple, which used to be the dwelling place of God's Spirit, and our bodies that are now the dwelling place of His Spirit.  I believe he is saying that in some mystical way, Solomon's Temple was a model, a blueprint, or a type of the believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit.

Now, the reason I refer to Solomon's Temple and not the other temples is because Solomon's was very "special." 1) It was the only Temple where all the detailed plans (not only the construction of the Temple but also the furniture) were given to David by the Spirit of God (see 1 Chronicles 28:12,19). 2) It was also the only Temple in which God's Spirit "dwelt permanently" until the Temple was destroyed. And lastly, 3) It was the only Temple in which the Ark of the Covenant rested. None of the other Temples contained the Ark.

Sensual:

• Getting back to Jude 1:19 Sensual here is soulish, it is meant in a neutral sense, but that makes it more telling

- The soul is self-consciousness, our personality, our emotions, our will, psychology

- The spirit is God-consciousness, the highest element of communication with Him

What is the best English equivalent for the soulish man = natural man (1 Corinthians 2:14)

1 Corinthians 2:13-14 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's 

wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually 

discerned.

Holography:

A Provocative Analogy

Holographic Properties (Fourier Transform)

• Useless in Natural light – it looks foggy

- Requires proper illumination

• What makes it dramatic is that it is 3 dimensional

- Move your eyes to look around things in the picture

- The picture appears to have substance as you move

A Biblical Analogy

When one examines a hologram in natural (uncollimated, noncoherent) light, it has no apparent form nor attractiveness. However, when one examines it with the laser with which it was formulated, a three-dimensional image appears.

When one examines the Bible in unaided, natural light, it ''has no form nor comeliness that we should desire it.''⁴ But when we examine it illuminated by the Light that created it, the Spirit of God that put it all together in the first place, we see an image: the image of the One that every detail in it illuminates, the promised Messiah Himself.

From Genesis to Revelation, Gods program for the redemption of mankind is carefully distributed throughout 66 books,⁵ penned by more than 40 different individuals span-ning over a thousand years! And, indeed, this abused collection has survived the jamming and interference of its enemies over many centuries without material damage! (However, if we illuminate the hologram with a laser of a different frequency, it will yield a false or distorted image. So, too, the Scriptures!)

How Do Holograms Work?

A hologram is a form of lensless photography in which a laser simultaneously illuminates an object and a piece of film. The film records the interference between the light waves hitting it directly and the light waves reflected from the object. It is, in effect, a frequency record rather than a spatial image.

Fourier Transforms

The hologram is one of the most remarkable examples of a Fourier Transform. Holographic principles were first formulated in 1947 by Dennis Gabor (who later won a Nobel Prize for his efforts) as he was trying to improve the electron microscope, then a primitive and imperfect device. His approach was a mathematical one, leaning on a type of calculus invented by an 18^th century Frenchman, Jean B. J. Fourier.

Fourier had developed a mathematical way of converting any pattern, no matter how complex, into a language of simple waves. He also showed that these wave forms could be converted back into the original pattern, just as a television set converts those frequencies back into the original images. Engineers frequently exploit Fourier Transforms to change a time series into a frequency series. The use of frequency response curves in the evaluation of audio equipment is a common example.

Modern holographic images are derived from the work of Emmet Leath at the University of Michigan. (I had the pleasure of exploring computer-generated holograms with him in his laboratory in the early 60s.)

• There is …No loss from dropouts or holes

- Information is spread over the entire bandwidth, meaning, there is no chapter on “baptism”, there is no specific chapter on “salvation”, there is no specific chapter on the “rapture”, etc. It is spread over the entire Book of the Bible

- This anticipates hostile jamming

- It is resilient to specific interference

Isaiah 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand 

doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. 10 For

precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

• It’s distributed, the same way that you would do with a hologram, it’s the same properties…

• The Natural man cannot perceive the truth of God

- Without the light of the Holy Spirit (which put the Word together in the first place)

- Intellectual debate won’t usually convert them

• Only the proper illumination of the Holy Spirit

- That’s how we came to God, it’s ok to use apologetics, but the drawing to God is by the word and the Holy Spirit

• In Jude sensual means soulish

-  Having not the Spirit verse 19

Is An Apostate Saved?

• Believers are normally spiritual, if they are obedient to the Word of God (1 Corinthians 2:15)  

• Although they may be carnal, or babes (1 Corinthians 3:1)

- They are never said to be sensual or natural men

• They are born of the Spirit

• No matter how noble or giving, doesn’t mean that they are saved

- Only saved by Jesus Christ

- An apostate never became a child of God

• There is no passage of Scripture which could be made the basis for the concept that

a natural man ever was anything else but an unsaved man

• The unsaved are natural men, dominated by the senses of the self

- Dominated by the psyche

- They receive not the things of the spirit for they are “foolishness” (1 Corinthians 2)

• What is the foolishness of God?

• From beginning to end God goes out of His way…

• To do things in a way that we would never think of

- Saving eight people in a barge, using the jawbone of an ass, Naaman bathing in a muddy river

- “The foolishness of God is wiser than men” (1 Corinthians 1:25)

• The ultimate foolishness, the most ridiculous idea to us

- The entire universe is redeemed by the death of a carpenter’s Son

• On a Roman Cross, in Judea over 1,900 years ago

• That event would be the pivotal fulcrum of all history

• That’s Foolish!

- “The preaching of the Cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved it is the power of God” (1 Corinthians 1:18; Romans 1:16)

• “If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His” (Romans 8:9)

• The apostate lacks the distinguishing mark of the true believer: the seal until the day of redemption (Ephesians 1:13, 14)

A Christian Is:

• Baptized by the spirit into the body of Christ

• Sealed by the Spirit

• Indwelt by the Spirit

• Taught by the Spirit

• Led by the Spirit (Romans 8:14)  

• Can cry … “Abba, Father…” (Galatians 4:6)  

• An apostate knows nothing of these things

Building, Praying, Keeping, and Looking:

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.

Building Up Your Faith:  

• We bear the responsibility for self-development

“Building” is a present participle and lifelong task

• Spiritual Building:

- The Church (Matthew 16:18)

- Foundation of apostles, prophets;

• Christ = Chief Cornerstone; (Ephesians 2:20)

- We = “living stones…spiritual house”; (1 Peter 2:5)

- Our works: stones versus stubble (1 Corinthians 3:10-15)

2 Peter 1:5-7 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue 

knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to 

patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness 

charity.

• There are Nine steps to building a spiritual house

• “Building Up Yourselves”

- How do we do that? (Acts 20:32)

- Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God (Romans 10:17)

- Cleansing from sin (Ephesians 5:26; John 17:17)

- Obedience brings blessings (James 1:25)

- When we desire it, we grow thereby (1 Peter 2:2)

- Whoso keepeth… in Him…love is perfected (1 John 2:5)

• “Praying in the Holy Spirit” (Ephesians 6:18; Romans 8:26-27)

• “Keep yourself in the love of God”

- We are kept for Jesus Christ (1 Peter 1:5; cf verse 1)

- Also, (cf. angels who “kept” in everlasting bonds…) Verse 6

- This does not say – “Keep on loving God”

• It’s His Love, not our love that is in view (John 15:9)

• The Prodigal Son removed himself from the place where he could enjoy the benefits of his father’s love to the fullest. He did not keep himself in the love of his father…(Luke 15)

- Listen to His call for obedience (John 15:10; 1 John 3:23) also, draw close to God and He will draw close to you (James 4:8)

• Verse 21 “Looking for”

- “Looking for” in the Greek is translated = (4 times) “waiting for” (Luke 12:36) and “looking for” in (Titus 2:13)

- Awaiting, expecting, anticipating

• Progressive: faith = love = blessed hope

- Holy Spirit/Father/Son

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.

Ex-Warlock Reveals SHOCKING Truth About The Agenda Against Christians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYeKBBlznzk&t=327s  

James Kawalya who was an Ex Satanist & High-Ranking African Warlock shares what types of Christians he saw in the spiritual realm when he was in the Kingdom of Darkness. This revelation will absolutely shock you and you will never want to sin again after seeing this. James is a powerful man of God who the Lord is using mightily in this hour to expose the things most churches won't even talk about anymore.

Response = Sacred Duty:

• What’s Our Response to all of the previous exhortations?

1) Compassionate understanding

- Some people have sincere doubts, it’s our mission to deal with those doubts

• Mercy

- The first mention of “mercy” (compassion) is in Matthew 5:7; the last mention is here

• Doubt

- The first mention was when Peter was sinking (Matthew 14:31)

• Refute: In a punitive sense (Hebrews 12:5)

- “and some refute while they dispute with you” (cf. verse 9)

- The Word of God can refute, punish, convict, and convert

- Be ready to give every man an answer (1 Peter 3:15)

1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness 

and fear:

• Don’t conclude form that that it is reason that causes a person to believe, on the other hand you still have an obligation to defend, and the classical term is to apologize. - Meaning to have apologetics by having the background by what you believe sound enough that you can stand up and be counted in that way.

- You may say, well that sounds kind of tough to do. James gives you a key tool  

- Ask for wisdom (James 1:5)

James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, 

and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

• This is a very specific kind of ask and you shall receive promise from James, the Lord’s other brother  

2) “Save with fear, pulling them out of the fire;”

• Urgent Boldness: If they are to be snatched from an eternity of fiery judgement;

- When you recognize that the unsaved person that you are dealing with is in peril, and your diligence and effectiveness what God may have called you to do at that opportunity may save them from an eternity of punishment

• Eternal Fire: verse 7

- The first mention was the unquenchable fire (Matthew 3:10-12)

- The last mention (Revelation 21:8)

• The same idea is found throughout the Scriptures

- Lot and his daughters (Genesis 19:15, 16, 24) they were extracted from the fire

• Only by intercession?! Lot was saved by the intercession of Abraham. Sometimes this is our only option.

• How do you witness the family? It’s tough!

• What can you do best? Intercede! God is in the miracle business, spouting off some Bible verse or arguing some Biblical point, is not likely to yield a commitment to the Lord.

• The Lord can use those instruments, but usually when dealing with family, He responds to prayer and have somebody else or some event reach that person  

- Firebrand plucked out of the burning (Amos 4:11)

Amos 4:11 I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, 

and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

- Even a high priest is snatched (Zechariah 3:1-2)

Zechariah 3:1-2 And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.

2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

• I don’t think anyone is ever saved without intercession

3) Cautious Compassion: Lest the soul winner himself be endangered with their sins

• Godly Fear

- We are at risk; mingle zeal with Godly fear (Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 9:10; 14:16; 4:14-15)

- Don’t be tempted to “tone down” the Gospel (Proverbs 19:27; 28:4)

- “Hating even the garment spotted by the flesh” this seems to point to the spotted garment in Joshua 7, remember Aiken?

• “Spotted garment”: Don’t covet that which is denied us (Joshua 7)

• The desires of this world spotting the life, we need to have a hatred of those things that interfere with the walk

Grand Benediction/Doxology:

• Jude’s epistle is on apostacy

• But he both “Began and ends the epistle with Assurance” to the believer

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,

Psalm 37:4-5 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. 5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. …7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.. …

23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

• My personal scripture from the Lord

2 Thessalonians 3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from 

evil.

• We may stumble and fall, but we are not cast aside

• The “Secrets of our walk” was penned long before (Proverbs 3:19-23)               Proverbs 3:19-23 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. 20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew. 21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: 22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.

23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

• I have listed - Over 30 New Testament admonitions concerning our walk…(1 Thessalonians 4:1)

• Paul said to “run”

Hebrews 12:1-2 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

• Looking unto Jesus…

Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

• It’s in climactic order

- “They that wait upon the Lord”

- Shall “Renew their strength”

- They shall “mount up with wings as eagles”

- “they shall run and not be weary”

- “they shall walk and not faint”

Jude 1:24 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,

• “Faultless” – (Greek “amomos (299)” – “…without blemish” blameless

Ephesians 5:25-27 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and 

gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water 

by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, 

or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

• He imputes to the Church, His righteousness, that’s His goal that’s His mission

1 John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see 

him as he is.

1 Peter 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and 

without spot:

Hyperspace:

The History of Hyperspace Physics and the Bible: by Lambert Dolphin • October 1, 1997

Lambert Dolphin, Physicist Website

https://khouse.org/articles/1997/29/

"Flatland"

In 1884 the Christian headmaster of the City of London School, Edwin Abbott, wrote a wonderful novel about creatures who lived in an imaginary world called "Flatland."² It was now immediately easy for ordinary people like you and me to imagine what it would be like living in a two dimensional world-on a flat sheet of paper-with occasional intrusions of "beings" from a higher three-dimensional "hyperspace." Even more fantastic science fiction now unfolded into being overnight and by the turn of the century the common man's perception of his world would never be the same.

• If four dimensions are not only possible, but now certain, why not 5 or 10 or 26 dimensions? Indeed, if we jump from Einstein to the present time, that is precisely what has happened in modern physics. All this has taken place because introducing (mathematically) additional dimensions to the physical world "unifies" the laws, forces and fields of physics, and leads (usually) to simpler and more "elegant" ways of looking at the universe in which we live.

• Discussion of hyperspace rapidly became very complex after Einstein-we must save that for another article. But let us note several things: It is indeed quite likely that the physical, material world we live in has many more than four dimensions.

Ten is a reasonable number to make our physics simple. Discussion of hyperspace still leaves the issue of where God now lives, since he was long ago excluded from the "fourth" dimension. Unfortunately, some modern Christian apologists have implied that God is merely a higher-dimensional being, a cosmic giant who pokes his fingers into our world from time to time, alarming us with visions or miracles which we cannot fully understand. Is God a super being from another dimension?

• I don't mean to imply that miracles, visions and UFO intrusions from higher dimensions do not occur! They most certainly occur, and I believe they are all real extra-dimensional happenings. The point is: God is not made of matter; He is Spirit and spirit is something fundamentally different from matter.

• There is an all-important point to keep in mind in our discussions of modern physics and that is that "God is a Spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." (John 4:24) Spirit is not the same thing as matter!

• We can talk endlessly about matter/energy, space and time in the created material world, but that still leaves a higher realm of God and his angels. Who are they and where do they live? What are the unseen worlds they inhabit? Beyond our amazing physical world is yet another realm where different laws apply and where time flows at a different pace.

• To talk first of matter and now of spirit is also to go beyond the scope of this short introductory article. Suffice it to say, our knowledge and understanding of the physical world comes through the scientific method, which is based both on observations and on mathematical models that can be tested and verified by measurements and experiments.

• The spiritual world is something we know about by personal revelation from our God.³ Most marvelous of all, God has created man to live simultaneously in the material and in the spiritual world. He wants us to be at home in two worlds-he wants us in His training program designed to prepare us for an amazing greater world which is to come.

• The opening of doors for us to enter into other worlds was accomplished by the sacrificial work of Jesus Christ on the Cross-we live in a moral universe, and much more than physics is involved in the superhyperspace the Bible calls the "heavens."

"Since we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, 'I believed, and so I spoke,' we too believe, and so we speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God. So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."

2 Corinthians 4:13-18

25] To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both 

now and ever. Amen.

• “God our Savior “: (1 Timothy 2:5)

• Believing in God is insufficient

- The Cross is essential! (John 14:6; Acts 4:12)

• Same expression:

- New Testament (1 Timothy 1:1; 2:3; Titus 3:4-6)

- Old Testament (Psalms 106:21; Isaiah 60:16; Psalms 80:1-3)

Jude 1:24 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.

Glory, Majesty, Dominion and Power:

• The only other New Testament verse where all four these is wrapped up in one verse is (Hebrews 1:3)

Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his 

person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself 

purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

• Glory: The Divine radiance that shines (Luke 2:9)

- Blinds (Acts 22:11)

- Protected by smoke (Revelation 15:8)

• Majesty: Only here and in Hebrews 1:3 and (Hebrews 8:1)

- Incomparable, ineffable regal presence of the Ruler of the Universe

- Suggests the omniscience of God upon the throne

• Dominion: The infinite extent of His rule throughout the Universe (Hebrews 1:3; Colossians 2)

- Suggests the omnipresence of His Majesty throughout the universe (Psalms 103)

• Power: Irresistible divine authority and might; omnipotence

- Omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience

• One gets the feeling that Jude has run out of words

• This demonstrates the poverty of the human language (cf. David 1 Chronicles 29:11)

1 Chronicles 29:10-12 Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: 

and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. 11 Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, 

O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. 12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.

Some people pray A.C.T.S.

• Adoration

• Confession

• Thanksgiving

• Supplication 

• When you pray take time and in your own wors just adore Him

• Having comprehended the glorious brightness, the unutterable regal Being of the One who sits on the throne, the limitless extent of His rule, and the unlimited strength of His might

- Jude can write no more

• “before all time”

- Before the most distant stars were created

• “The Lord knew you, before the foundations of the world…”

• That’s when you were saved, that’s when you were foreordained, that’s when He had you on His mind, by name. That’s when He knew how many hairs on your head, before the foundation of the world was laid

• “…and now” (the only epoch that we can impact) He has given us a segment of time that we get to choose where we will spend eternity, we are here to make a decision  

• “and forever more”

Amen

How to become “Born-Again” In Jesus Christ

The Roman Road to Salvation
https://www.teenmissions.org/resources/roman-road-to-salvation/

New American Standard Bible
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life 

in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

When God created the first humans, they were holy and had no laws, except one, and our first parents broke that with some help from the tempter Satan. Ever since then mankind has been steeped in sin, and rebellion from God.
Since, the creator of the universe is HOLY. 
1 John 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, 

that God is light,and in him is no darkness at all.  
He has set laws in place for his creation to obey. What are these laws? 
They begin with the 10 Commandments. 
While you might consider yourself ‘good’ compared to most people, how do you measure up against God’s law? 
Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Have you ever told the smallest lie? Then you are a liar. 
James 2:10 For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of breaking it all. 
Disobedience to God is sin, and not one person can keep the Law of God.

Steps down the Roman Road to Salvation… Read on!
I consider myself a ‘good person’… won’t that be enough?
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; 

and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
New American Standard Bible
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, 

and so death spread to all men, because all sinned-- 

Is sin really THAT big of a deal? If it is… what HOPE is there?
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Disobedience to an infinite eternal God deserves an infinite eternal consequence. 
God shows us His character and his laws in his creation, the world around us. 
He has also written his laws in our hearts… on our conscience. He has also given us his WORD the Bible. 
No good judge would let the guilty go free, or will allow the criminal to go unpunished. Neither can a holy righteous God allow sinful man to go unpunished… but God LOVES man whom he has made in his image and He has provided a way of escape by sending his only son to die in our place.

After what I’ve done to grieve God...HOW could He willingly die in my place?
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet 

sinners, Christ died for us.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  
While he died on the cross, he was mocked, spit upon, and cursed. 
Yet Jesus cried out, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do…” 
Luke 23:34
With such love, Jesus died in your place… knowing every evil act, word, and thought you would commit. What powerful love! He loves you unconditionally even to the point of death when you are at your worst!

HOW can I be saved?
Romans 10:9-10
That if you confess with your mouth Jesus [as] Lord, and believe in your heart that God 

raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 For with the heart man believeth unto 

righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

You can never be saved by trying to be a good person, nor can you be saved through any amount of ‘good works’. 

Ephesians 2:8,9 
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 

9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
You and I can be saved only by confessing our sins and placing our faith in God’s son, Jesus Christ who died  and paid for our sins on the cross. We must also surrender our life to His lordship… placing him in charge of every area of our life because we now belong to him. 
Both John the Baptist and Jesus himself began their preaching with the word, ‘Repent’. 
Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
To repent means ‘change one’s mind’ or to turn — to go in another direction.

How can we be led to repentance? 
The first step toward repentance is true sorrow for what we’ve done wrong. 
2 Corinthians 7:10 
For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.
Worldly sorrow is more like the regret of a criminal who’s just been caught whereas godly sorrow is the deep remorse or conviction that produces a change in direction. Have you ever felt convicted after doing something wrong? 

The Bible says that the Holy Spirit is the one that convicts us of our sin. 
John 16:7-8
Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not 

away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 

8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and 

of judgment:

Did God HEAR me? Did He accept me?
Romans 10:13 
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
God promises that 
John 1:12 
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, 

even to them that believe on his name:”  
Yes, God does hear and accept ALL who come to put their faith in Him. 
There is no need to fear death any longer because Jesus BROKE the power of sin and death on the cross with his own shed blood.  
The price for your sin has been paid in full and it is God’s promise to receive all who come to Him by placing their faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. 
As a believer, you have a new life in Christ. Jesus did NOT remain in the grave. He rose from the dead after three days. 
Read: Mark 16 

2 Corinthians 5:17 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have  passed away, 

and look, new things have come.
• Our old "Spirit Man" was dead to the Life of Jesus Christ, we had to be born-again according to John 3:7. So that we could be raised from death to life in Jesus Christ.

John 3:7-8 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 8 The wind bloweth 

where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

• The Lord says, The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born 
of the Spirit.”

When I was Born-Again, I Died to Live In Jesus!:
Romans 6:8-11 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

• We are dead to sin in our Spirit Man, and alive with God through Jesus Christ our Lord. But, we still live in a Fallen Body, therefore we are at constant war between following the will of the Father versus following the will of the Flesh.
• That is why we are told to not allow sin to dominate over us in all that we do.

Romans 6:12-14 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey 

it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 14 For sin shall 

not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
6:13, says, this...And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. 

But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts 

of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.
• as weapons for unrighteousness...This means, that we on occasions are able to use our bodies as weapons against God's kingdom in unrighteousness, we become alliedin a sense with the opposing forces. 

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 3696: ὅπλον

ὅπλον (allied to ἐπω, Latinsequor, socius, etc.; Curtius, § 621), ὅπλου, τό, as in classical Greek from Homer down, any tool or implement for preparing a thing (like the Latinarma); hence,

1. plural arms used in warfare, weapons: John 18:3; 2 Corinthians 10:4; metaphorically, 

τῆς δικαιοσύνης, which ἡ δικαιοσύνη furnishes, 2 Corinthians 6:7; τοῦ φωτός, adapted to the light, such as light demands, Romans13:12 (here L marginal reading ἔργα).

 

2. an instrument: ὅπλα ἀδικίας, for committing unrighteousness, opposed to ὅπλα δικαιοσύνης, for practicing righteousness, Romans 6:13.

• If we could live a perfectly “Sin Free Life” these verses would not be needed, these verses remind us, that we are at war within ourselves.
• If ever you meet any person who claims to live a sinless life, he or she is a 
liar.
• When we sin, we sever fellowship with God, we are still saved, but our sin separates us from fellowship with God, so we have to confess our sins to restore instant fellowship with the Father.
• If we say, “ We have fellowship with Him,” yet we walk in darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth.

1 John 1:6-10 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, 

and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have 

fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all 

sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If 

we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us 

from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and 

his word is not in us.

What do I do now?
This is the work of God, believe in the one whom He has sent.
John 6:29
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him 

whom he hath sent.

 

Romans 10:17 
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Your journey as a child of the King of Kings has just begun! You must begin by spending time daily in prayer and in God’s Word, the Bible.
Most of the Churches today are in apostasy, we need to read and study the entire Old Testament and New Testament to get a "grasp" in learning the entire Bible.

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