12These men are the hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted. 13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
14Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones 15to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”d
16These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.
Early Christians met for a meal, we call them potlucks but they called these meals love feasts, or “Agape Feasts.
“These men”, were men that came into the Agape feast only thinking about themselves, taking what they could get, not caring about salvation or others.
Jude quotes in this scripture from the ancient Book of Enoch.
“Tertullian tells us that the book of Enoch’s prophecies were preserved by Noah in the ark, and that they continued and were read until the times of the apostles. But because they contained many famous testimonies concerning Jesus Christ, the Jews out of malice suppressed and abolished the whole book.” (Trapp)
To convict all who are ungodly: In this quotation from the book of Enoch Jude emphasized the words all and ungodly. God is coming to judge all of the ungodly. (Guzik)
Are you preparing for judgement?
Only a fool would not prepare to stand in front of the greatest Judge of them all!
“A Wisconsin man who sent an anti-government manifesto to President Trump and confessed to stealing a huge cache of firearms was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison Wednesday — but not before he cursed out the judge and threatened to commit even more crimes.”
Was this man a fool?
I pray you are not like “these men”, that you have prepared yourself for the Final Judgement, eternal life and a life with God!
Blessings, David
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