EVENING
SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/19/2025 8:21 PM
My
Worship Time Focus:
“The Perishing of the Apostates”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Jude 5-7
Message of the verses: 5 Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things
once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt,
subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. 6 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, 7 just as Sodom and
Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these
indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an
example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
I
want to say that what we will be looking at in this Spiritual Diary is actually
an introduction to these verses, and I also want to say that this introduction
will be very short. I have mentioned
many times that while studying the New Testament, and parts of the Old
Testament I have been using John MacArthur’s commentaries, as he has a
commentary on all of the New Testament books, and also a few of the Old
Testament books as well.
I am blessed to be able to study
this little book of Jude with only 25 verses in it, but I believe it will take
us a considerable time to get through it.
I have studied this book many years ago, but by using the helps that I
get from MacArthur’s commentary I can say that I am getting much more out of
this letter of Jude than I did before.
This is a very important letter that Jude is writing, as he is mostly
writing about apostates, and apostates have been around for a long time.
I will now quote from John
MacArthur’s commentary one paragraph which is kind of an introduction to the
verses above from Jude. “In this
passage, Jude provided further insight into the deceivers’ condemnation (v. 4b)
by citing three of God’s pas judgments against other apostates—namely, apostate
Israelites, apostate angels, and apostate Gentiles. This section closely parallels 2 Peter
2:3-10. There Peter wrote about God’s
judgment on fallen angels, on unbelievers through the Flood, and on the grossly
wicked people of Sodom and Gomorrah.”
Now let me just say that in the commentary we are looking at which
contains commentary on Jude also includes commentary on 2 Peter, and once I get
done with looking at Jude then I will go back to the beginning of this
commentary and look at 2 Peter, a book that I am extremely interested in to
study it. Now back to MacArthur’s
introduction: “Jude likewise focused on
fallen angels and the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, but he referenced the
unbelieving Israelites instead of the people of Noah’s time. In both Peter’s and Jude’s letters, the
references are brief and general because they were already familiar to their
readers.”
Now it is my hope and prayer that
after I study Jude and Peter and put them onto my blogs that those who take the
time to read them will become much more familiar with them because they are very
worthwhile to study. I like to study
these books that come at the end of the New Testament as the writers write
things that are very important to them, and in the case of 2 Timothy that Paul
wrote to Timothy, Paul did not live to long after writing that letter, and
because many of these books at the end of the New Testament were written
towards the end of the first century that means that those authors would not
live too much longer either. It is my
hope and prayer that as I look at these books that they will, through the
ministry of the Holy Spirit teach me the important things that are in them.
7/19/2025 8:44 PM
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