EVENING
SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/01/2025 9:00 PM
My
Worship Time Focus: PT-3 “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.”
I begin this third SD on Jude 8b-10 this evening by talking about
what happened when Michael contended for the
body of Moses, and he did just what the Angel of the Lord did, as his
appeal to the Lord as sovereign apparently ended the dispute with Satan. It is interesting this is the only place in Scripture
that mentions this incident; the Old Testament provides no details about Moses’
death other than to say, So Moses the
servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of
the Lord. And He buried him in the
valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-pero; but no man knows his burial
place to this day” (Deut 34:5-6). Now
because God did not want anyone to
preserve Moses’ body and venerate (worship or adore) his body God gave Michael
the responsibility of burying it where no one, and that includes Satan could
find it. False teachers exercise no such
restraint but pretend to have personal power over Satan and angelic beings.
There is a couple of things I want
to say about this section above to help us understand that false teachers found
in the Word of God can get themselves in a lot of trouble as we look at what
happened to some of them in the 19th chapter of Acts. “13 But
also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to
name over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying,
"I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches." 14 Seven sons of one
Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. 15 And the evil spirit answered
and said to them, "I recognize Jesus, and I know about Paul, but who are you?"
16 And the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaped on them and subdued all of
them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and
wounded. 17 This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in
Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being
magnified” (Acts 19:13-17).
Now
an additional thought about Moses, and that is when the Lord Jesus Christ was
up on a mountain with Peter, James, and John Moses the following happened: 1 Six
days later Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and led
them up on a high mountain by themselves. 2 And He was transfigured before
them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as
light. 3 And behold, Moses
and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. 4 Peter said to Jesus,
"Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, I will make three tabernacles
here, one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah." 5 While he was
still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of
the cloud said, "This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased;
listen to Him!" 6 When the disciples heard this, they fell face
down to the ground and were terrified. 7 And Jesus came to them and
touched them and said, "Get up, and do not be afraid" Matt. 17:1-7). Now as I look at the verse and see Moses and
Elijah on top of this mountain talking to Jesus, and they were there were there
to encourage Jesus about His upcoming death and resurrection. My point is that it really did not make any
difference where Moses’ body was buried as we can see in this passage from
Matthew.
The following two paragraphs will be
quoted from John MacArthur’s commentary as this will end this section.
“To conclude this section, Jude
wrote that these men [the apostates]
revile the things which they do not
understand. Their behavior evidenced
their incredible ignorance and presumption.
“Like the apostle Peter, Jude
compared the apostates to unreasoning
animals, who know the things which
they know by instinct. They operate
from intuitive musings, out of their own unholy instinct and lusts. They did
not soundly interpret the truth of special revelation. The term translated unreasoning (alogos) literally
means ‘without a word.’ That is, the
apostates were like dumb animals who cannot speak reasonably because they
cannot reason. No matter how highly
educated apostate teachers are, how profoundly philosophical they think their
teaching is, or how many mystical visions and insights they claim to have had,
they still are like brute animals. Like the rest of reprobate humanity, ‘professing to be wise, they became fools’
(Rom. 1:22; cf. 1 Cor. 3:18; 2 Cor. 10:5; 12; Gal. 6:3; Eph. 4:17; 2 Tim. 3:2, 4). In the end, they are destroyed by means of their own lying and deceiving
heresies, which bring upon them the judgment of God (cf. Gen. 6:17; 19:24; 2
Kings 22:17; Jer. 30:16; Matt. 7:22-23; 13:40-42; 25:41; Heb. 10:27).”
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