EVENING
SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/27/2025 8:20 PM
My
Worship Time Focus: PT-1 Characteristics of the Apostate’s Nature”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Jude 8-10
Message of the verses: “8 Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile
the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties. 9 But Michael
the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of
Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said,
"The Lord rebuke you!" 10 But these men revile the things which they
do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning
animals, by these things they are destroyed.”
“8 In the same way, these people — who
claim authority from their dreams — live immoral lives, defy
authority, and scoff at supernatural beings. 9 But
even Michael, one of the mightiest of the angels, did not dare accuse the devil
of blasphemy, but simply said, “The Lord rebuke you!” (This took place when
Michael was arguing with the devil about Moses’ body.) 10 But these people scoff at things they do not understand. Like
unthinking animals, they do whatever their instincts tell them, and so they bring
about their own destruction” (NLT).
Now as one looks at these verses in
both the NASB95, and the NLT, they will see that they begin a new paragraph,
and these words “Yet
in the same way,” also means that this is an important transition, which further
unlocks the significance of the previous passage, and that passage we looked at
three days ago. It is true that
apostates typically exhibit ungodly character traits, just like the apostate
Israelites, the fallen angels, and the debauched population of Sodom and
Gomorrah. And so as one looks at this
list they can see that apostates have always been around, and let me give you
my opinion as to why they have always been around. I think that all men and women are looking
for some kind of religion, and what the apostates offer many times fills their appetites
for this religion, but here is one of the differences between religion and Christianity,
and that is “religion” people are trying to work their way to heaven, while in
Christianity, people realize that there is nothing they can do in order to be
saved, but then realize that Jesus Christ did it all for them and so they
accept what Christ did for them on the cross, paying entirely for their sins,
and then after that the Holy Spirit of God gives them gifts in order for them
to do work for the cause of Christ.
Every believer is given at least one gift in order to do this work for
the cause of Christ and as they do this work for the cause of Christ through
the gifts that they are given they will receive rewards in heaven because they
allowed the Holy Spirit to fill them in order to do what they are called to do
for the cause of Christ.
John MacArthur writes “The wicked
behavior of these men often derives
from their dreaming, a term that
Jude used to identify the apostates a phony visionaries. The New Testament normally uses the noun onar to refer to dreams (Matt. 1:20;
2:12, 13, 19:22; 27:19), but here Jude chose a form of the verb enuphiazo, which is used only one other
place in the New Testament, Acts 2:17.
In that passage, Peter (preaching on the Da of Pentecost) declared, ‘But this is what was spoken of through the
prophet Joel: ‘And it shall be in that last days,’ God says, ‘that I will pour
forth of My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream
dreams’ (2:16-17).
“Joel’s prophecy (Joel 2:28-32) and
its affirmation in Peter’s sermon show that the dreams in question may refer to
revelatory dreams 9rather than normal dreams).
During the tribulation, prophecies, revelations, and visions that have
now ceased will return, along with divine revelation. God will speak to people through dreams, just
as He did earlier in biblical history (e. g., Joseph in Egypt, Daniel in
Babylon, and others.”
Now let me add to this thought as
the tribulation period is mentioned here and that period comes from the
prophecy given in the ninth chapter of Daniel, one of the greatest, if not the
greatest prophecy in all the Word of God.
Now the church age begin on the day of Pentecost as seen in the second
chapter of Acts, and will end at the Rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 cf. 1
Corinthians 15:51 and following). The
prophecy in Daniel lasts for 490 years, but when Jesus came into Jerusalem on
what is called Palm Sunday He offered Himself as the Jewish Messiah, and was
turned down and so that meant that Daniel’s prophecy of 490 years had seven
years left on it. Daniel’s prophecy
begins in Daniel 9:24-27, and spans the time when Israel was in captivity which
began in 605 B.C. Let me quote from the
time that it began from the book of Nehemiah chapter two. 1 And
it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes,
that wine was before him, and I took up the wine and gave it to the
king. Now I had not been sad in his presence. 2 So the king said to me,
"Why is your face sad though you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness
of heart." Then I was very much afraid. 3 I said to the king, "Let
the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the place
of my fathers’ tombs, lies desolate and its gates have been consumed by
fire?" 4 Then the king said to me, "What would you request?" So
I prayed to the God of heaven. 5 I said to the king, "If it please the
king, and if your servant has found favor before you, send me to Judah, to the
city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it." 6 Then the king said to
me, the queen sitting beside him, "How long will your journey be, and when
will you return?" So it pleased the king to send me, and I gave him a
definite time.” Now
I want to look at a portion of the prophecy in Daniel chapter nine to show that
what I just quoted in Nehemiah is actually the beginning of Daniel’s
prophecy. “25 “So you are to know and discern that
from the issuing of a
decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there
will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza
and moat, even in times of distress.” Now notice the highlighted
portion of verse 25 and then as you look at Nehemiah chapter two you can see that
the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild
Jerusalem began
in Nehemiah chapter two. There is an old
book written by Sir Robert Anderson who goes through this prophecy and gives
the actual dates as to when it began and then the date is given when Jesus came
into Jerusalem on that Palm Sunday. I
want to quote one more set of verses which comes from the book of Luke which
speaks of when Jesus came into Jerusalem on that first Palm Sunday. “37 As soon as He was approaching, near the
descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to
praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen,
38 shouting: "BLESSED IS THE KING
WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD; Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!"
39 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, "Teacher, rebuke Your disciples."
40 But Jesus answered, "I
tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!" 41 When
He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, and
“If you had known in this
day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden
from your eyes (Luke 19:37-42).
Let
me say that from the time this prophecy began until it was stopped with seven
years left on it was 137880 days, and in the book “The Coming Prince” Sir.
Robert explains these numbers so it is easy to understand them. The important thing is that there are seven
years left, and the years are 360 day years.
Now I want to end by talking about the different highlighted verses in
this passage from Luke 19.
Above the first highlighted section
is a quote from Psalm 118:26 which was only suppose to be read when the Messiah
came, and that is why the Pharisees told Jesus to rebuke His disciples. You can read Jesus answer in the next
highlighted portion. Next highlighted
section Jesus is saying that if the Pharisees’ had known this date, which again
was 137,880 days after Nehemiah answer came from the king to go and rebuild
Jerusalem.
Ok I know that this was not really a
part from Jude but it fit in. After the
Rapture of the church there will arise what the Bible calls the Antichrist and
once he makes a covenant with Israel that will set off the Tribulation period
which will last for seven years, which is Daniel’s last week and once those
days end, which is when Armageddon is going on the Jesus will return to earth
to begin to set up the Millennial Kingdom, and all the raptured saints will
come back with Him.
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