EVENING
SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/16/2025 7:42 PM
My
Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “Certainties Regarding God’s Judgment”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference:
Jude 14b-16
Message of the verses: “saying, "Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of
His holy ones, 15 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." 16 These
are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they
speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an
advantage.”
We
have just finished looking at Enoch’s prophecy and now we will begin to look at
Jude’s subsequent comments as they set forth three certainties regarding God’s
judgment on apostasy. It is my hope and
prayer that as I study this wonderful little book and for those who read these
Spiritual Diaries that we will all have a much better understanding of apostasy,
for we know that this was not really the intent of what Jude wanted to write,
as he wanted to write about our common salvation, but the Spirit of God changed
his plans and I am thankful He did as I can learn much more about
apostasy.
John MacArthur writes “The first
certainty is that the Lord will come
(cf. Dan. 7:13; Luke 12:40; Acts 1:9-11; 1 Thess. 3:13). The aorist tense of the verb translated came suggests judgment had already
occurred. The certainty of Christ’s
return was under attack from the false teachers, and Jude’s reminder reinforced
the apostle Peter’s earlier teaching on this matter )cf. 2 Peter 3:1-10 and the commentary on that
passage in chapter 8 of this volume).
Now it is my plans to look at 2 Peter once I finish with Jude and so
Lord willing we will look at that great section from 2 Peter 3:1-10 later on.
Now we will look from MacArthur’s
commentary: “Second, the Lord will not
come alone. While He alone is the final
judge. He will be accompanied by many thousands of His holy ones (‘saints’) could
refer to believers (cf. 1 Cor. 1:2; 1 Thess. 3:1-3), who will return with
Christ when He comes in Judgment (Rev. 19:14; cf. Zech 14:5). However the emphasis on judgment here seems
to favor viewing the holy ones as
angels, since angels appear in other judgment contexts in the New Testament
(Matt 24:31; 25:31; Mark 8:38; 2 Thess. 1:7)
The saints will have a judgment role during the millennial kingdom (Rev.
2:26-27; 3:21; cf. Dan. 722; 1 Cor. 6:2), but angels will serve God’s
executioners when Christ returns (Matt. 13:39-41, 49-50; 24:29-31; 25:31; 2 Thess.
1:7-10).”
Now if you take the time to look up
the verses which are mentioned in these two paragraphs then you will learn much
about the end-times as this is very important to me as any of you can tell if
you have read my Spiritual Diaries, because the Lord opened my eyes to the
truth of the Gospel on the 26th of January, 1974 while listening to
some cassette tapes entitled “Two Years After the Late Great Planet Earth”
which were sermons by Hal Lindsey who wrote the book “The Late Great Planet
Earth” two years before this series of tapes.
God, through His Holy Spirit and His Word with the aid of those tapes
changed my life completely as I can say that my motives were not good as I went
to Florida in January of 1974, but He had different plans for me and I will
ever be grateful for what happened to me that time I spent in Florida.
8/16/2025 8:07 PM
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