OUR FATHER WHO SAVES THOSE WHO BELIEVE UNTO SALVATION

Jude continues in verses 5 - 11 to dig deeper into the implications of letting rebellious teachers of false doctrine and a false Christ into their midst. 

He warns them from the scriptures that even after the Lord had saved the children of Israel out of bondage in Egypt, there were unbeliefs that they fostered and attitudes that they held for which some of them ended up being slated for destruction. 

Likewise, angels who left their assigned realms in defiance, were consigned to eternal chains in darkness awaiting judgement.

Even those who ventured into sexual immorality were presented as a warning to others  of eternal fire.

5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; 7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

8 Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” 10 But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Jude says of those who were infiltrating the church with false doctrines and an antichrist spirit who promoted defilement, defiant of authority and reviling spiritual dignitaries that they were like mindless unguided beasts who, in their corruption, went the way of Cain which was to shed the blood of their brothers and then give false testimony of it in court and they also pursued monetary gain by abusing spiritual gifts and ultimately ended up in a state of abject rebellion.

Jude declared ˋWoe!ˋ upon such who were influenced in those ways.

Amen.

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