EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/19/2025 9:16 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1“The Victory”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Jude 5-7
Message of the verses: “5 I will therefore
put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, how that the Lord, having
saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that
believed not. 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left
their own habitation, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness to
the judgment of the great day. 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities
about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going
after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of
eternal fire.”
In these Spiritual Diaries from the book of Jude I
have mentioned 2 Peter a few times, and I want to do it again as I look at the
introduction to verses 5-7. I want also
to mention that in the NASB95 verses 4-7 are in one paragraph, so we continue
the thoughts from verses 4-7 because of being in one paragraph. We see here that Jude goes back into the Old
Testament in these verses as he gives three examples of God’s victory over
those who had resisted his authority and turned from the truth. Dr. Wiersbe writes that “Peter referred to
the fallen angels, Noah, and Lot (2 Peter 2:4-9) and followed the historical
order. He also emphasized God’s
deliverance of the righteous as well as His judgment of the ungodly. Jude, however, did not mention Noah and the
flood, but instead used the nation Israel as his example.”
Dr.
Wiersbe then goes on to write that “The point Jude was making is that God judges apostates. Therefore, the false teachers who had
crept into the church would also one day be judged. Their seeming success would not last; God
would have the last word.”
Israel (v.5) is the first thing that we
will look at according to Dr. Wiersbe’s commentary. Now as we look back to earlier books of the
New Testament that I have done Spiritual Diaries on we could see that both
Paul, in 1 Corinthians 10 and also the author of Hebrews in Hebrews 3-4 used
the experiences of Israel to illustrate important spiritual truths. This goes to show us that the Author of the
entire Bible, both the Old and New Testaments can pull things together to make
the points that He wants to make, and that is what He is doing here. Dr. Wiersbe writes “The nation was delivered
from Egypt by the power of God and brought to the border of the Promised
Land. But the people were afraid and did
not have the faith to enter in and possess the land (see Num. 13-14). Moses, Joshua, and Caleb tried to encourage
the people to obey God by faith, but the people refused. In fact, the leaders of the tribes even
wanted to organize and go back to Egypt, the place of bondage!” Now I have thought a good bit about this
subject of Israel wondering in the wilderness for 40 years until all of the
generation over 20 years old died off, and once the 40 years were almost up we
see that Moses then wrote the book of Deuteronomy, and as we move into the
early gospel chapters like in Matthew chapter four we see that Jesus was
tempted by Satan and the rebuke that Jesus gave to those temptations Satan
offered all came from the book of Deuteronomy.
Jesus quoted the Old Testament book of Deuteronomy a lot while on earth,
and that is why I think that if it was not there then He would not have been
able to quote from it. My answer to this
somewhat problem is the Sovereignty of God.
Dr.
Wiersbe continues “Keep in mind that Jude was using a historical event as an
illustration, and we must not press every detail. The entire nation was delivered from Egypt,
but that does not mean that each individual was personally saved through faith
in the Lord. The main point of the account is that privileges bring responsibilities,
and God cannot lightly pass over the sins of His people. If any of Jude’s readers dared to follow the
false teachers, they too would face the discipline of God. ‘Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth
take heed lest he fall’ (1 Cor. 10:12).”
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