EVENING
SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/30/2025 10:21 PM
My
Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “Their
Irreverence”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Jude 8d-10
Message of the verse: “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.”
“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.”
In
this evening’s SD we will begin to look at the introduction of Jude’s third
indictment of the apostates’ character as this beings with the phrase “revile angelic majesties. Now the word revile which comes from blaspheme,
and this can mean “to slander,” or “to speak evil of,” especially to speak
profanely of sacred matters, including God Himself, and here are some examples
(cf. 2 Kings 19:22; Ps. 74:22; Isa. 65:7; Ezek. 20:27; Matt. 12:31-32). Now the false teachers were not just
irreverent in only some mile sense; they were blasphemers, and specifically of angelic majesties.
John
MacArthur writes “The New American
Standard translates the single Greek word doxa (‘glory’) as angelic
majesties. Although it is possible
to interpret the word as a reference to God’s majesty, the translation angelic majesties is best in light of
the parallel passage in Peter’s epistle (2 Peter 2:10). In his letter, Peter used the same word to
identify angels as the objects of such blasphemy.” Now Lord willing we will
begin to look at Peter’s second epistle after we are done with Jude, and it
makes it easy for me because both letters are in the same commentary written by
John MacArthur.
“Throughout redemptive history, holy
angels, who are devoted to God’s holy glory, have had a special role in
establishing God’s moral order. For
instance, God gave them the ministry of helping communicate His law (Deut.
22:2; cf. Acts 7:53; Gal. 3:19; Heb. 2:1-2).
The holy angels will also be involved in the ultimate judgment of the
wicked: Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of Holy ones, to execute
judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds
which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which
ungodly sinners have spoken against Him’ (Jude 14b-15). By their lawless immorality and
insubordination, apostates not only blaspheme the holy angels; they also
blaspheme God Himself.”
I have mentioned in earlier SD’s on Jude that
apostates began their false doctrines way back in the Old Testament, and they
were also around in the time when Jesus walked the earth, and now we find them in
the church age, and the closer we get to the time when Jesus returns in the
Rapture to take His bride to heaven, the worse thing will get, and means the
worse things get I believe the closer we are to the Rapture of the Church,
something I have been looking forward to for over 51 years, when the Lord saved
me on January 26, 1974. And as I look
back on those 51 years plus I have seen things in our country, and around the
world continue to get worse.
7/30/2025 10:50 PM
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