EVENING
SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/22/2025 8:46 PM
My
Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “The Apostate Angels”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference:
Jude 6
Message of the verse: “And
angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He
has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.”
This evening we
will look at the second example that Jude gave and that was that of apostate angels.
The fact is that these angels are not specifically identified, and this
indicates that Jude had assumed his audience was already familiar with the
details of their extraordinary defection.
In
his commentary John MacArthur states that commentators have offered three main
views as to the identity of these angels.
I will now quote what he has written, “Some argue that Jude’s reference
is to an episode his readers knew nothing about. But that does not fit the larger context in
which as noted above, Jude reminded his readers of things they already knew
(cf. v. 5). Thus one has to assume that Jude
wrote of an Old Testament account that was generally familiar to his audience.”
He
goes on to talk about the second idea that was given by other commentators. “Others assert that Jude referred to the original
fall of Satan (Isa. 14:12-15; Ezek. 28:12-17; cf. Luke 10:18; Rev. 12:7-10). That is a possible interpretation, but it
fails to explain Jude’s mention of eternal
bounds, which does not apply to the current status of Satan and
demons. The apostle Peter correctly
wrote that the devil ‘prowls around like
a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour’ (1 Peter 5:8; cf. Job 1:6-7). Therefore it is unlikely that Jude is
referring to Satan’s fall.” Now we will
move onto the third idea that commentators.
“A
third and most plausible viewpoint is that Jude referred to an extraordinarily
heinous infraction by some of the fallen angels. That sin placed the offending demons in
chains to prevent them from committing such perversity ever again.” John
MacArthur sites that in his commentary on 2 Peter he has written more on this
subject, and I have mentioned that the commentary that I am using to aid me in
Jude is the same commentary that in the front of the book is a commentary on 2
Peter. I did not think that it would
take a very long time in studying Jude, and then I would move to 2 Peter, but I
have to admit that there is much more to look at in Jude and I am really
enjoying this study. Lord willing I will
move to look at 2 Peter when I get done looking at Jude, and so we can look at
what was written there then.
“Peter
said they sinned, whereas Jude described two closely related aspects of the
fallen angel’s sin. First, they did not keep their own domain. Instead of staying in their own realm of
authority given by God, they went outside it.
Second, they abandoned their
proper abode. Wit Lucifer they rebelled against their created role and
place in heaven (cf. Isa. 14:12, KJJV).
When God expelled them from heaven for that rebellion (cf. Rev. 12:4,
9), some continued their downward fall to the point of taking masculine human
form and cohabitating with human women to produce a generation of
demon-influenced, thoroughly corrupt children (cf. Gen. 6:11-13). God sent those particular apostate angels
(demons) to a place under darkness for the judgment of the great day. Peter wrote that God ‘committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment’ (2 Peter
2:4).”
I have written
on this subject when I began looking at Dr. Warren Wiersbe’s commentary on the
book of Jude, and he disagreed with it in different ways. I then mentioned that I thought this was
true, but was not sure. Now the point
that makes me wonder if or if it is not true is that I am not sure that angels
can have sexual experience with human women.
Now if I knew that could happen then I probably would agree with this “theory.” There are many things in the Word of God that
people have problems, but the one thing that a person has to understand is the
gospel of Jesus Christ, and that is that in eternity past that God the Father
had made a plan for the Lord Jesus Christ to come to earth in order to die on
the cross in order to pay for sin. Now
if you are not really familiar with this then continue to keep looking at my
blogs as I sometimes write how a person can be saved. I don’t do this in every SD, but I do, do it
when it fits into what I am writing.
Unbelievers are to first of all realize that they are sinners, born
sinners because of the sin nature that comes through Adam. Once that is done then they next need to
confess to the Lord that they are sinners, and on their own can do nothing
about it, and so they ask the Lord to save them from their sins. Now when Jesus came to earth as the God-man,
100% God and 100& man he suffered and died on the cross in order to par for
sin, which He did and then if one asks the Lord to come into your heart
believing Jesus paid for your sins, believing this is true, then you will be
saved. Next step is to begin to read
your Bible each and every day as the Holy Spirit who now lives in you will help
you to understand it and thus grow in the Lord.
If you have not done that then do it after reading this Spiritual Diary.
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