“Waterless Clouds” (Jude 12b)

 

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/08/2025 9:35 PM

My Worship Time                                                                                  Focus: “Waterless Clouds”

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                              Reference:  Jude 12b

            Message of the verse:  “12 clouds without water, carried along by winds;”

            I mentioned a few days ago that once we got into this section of Jude 12-13 that there were “Comparisons with Five Natural Phenomena” to be looked at and the first day we looked at the introduction to these five natural phenomena’s, and last night we looked at the first one, and this evening we will look at the second one, and I have to say that it is very, very short, but like I said earlier that I will just be looking at one of these phenomena’s each night.

            I have to say that this summer in Northeast Ohio, where I live has been a very hot and dry summer and when one looks at the clouds and think that it was going to rain and you don’t get any rain then you are looking at “Waterless Clouds.”  So those clouds that come when you need rain and don’t give you any are very disappointing clouds.  You get the promise of rain, but you are disappointed that you don’t get any, kind of like a tease for you.  Let us now look at something Solomon said in Proverbs 25:14 “Like clouds and wind without rain Is a man who boasts of his gifts falsely.”  Now here is the point of this section which is written by John MacArthur “Apostate teachers promise to bring the true spiritual blessing and refreshment from God, but they do not deliver on that promise.  Jude likened them to clouds carried along by the winds, constantly portending rain but failing to produce it.  The term translated without water (anudros) also occurs in Matthew 12:43 in reference to the wanderings of evil spirits through dry and barren places (cf. 11:24-26).  By describing false teachers in the same way that Luke describes demons, Jude reiterated the connection between the apostates and their satanic sources.”

            I will not quote the verses that are referred to from MacArthur’s commentary.

Matthew 12:43: “"Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places.

 

Luke 11:24-26 24 “When the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding any, it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ 25 “And when it comes, it finds it swept and put in order. 26 "Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first."

 

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