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Jude’s first example of THE APOSTATE’S HORRIFIC FATE: UNBELIEVING ISRAEL

Jude’s second example of THE APOSTATES HORRIFIC FATE: FALLEN ANGELS

Satan’s Goal? TO DESTROY GOD’S PROMISED PLAN OF SALVATION: That the Messiah would come through a human lineage

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations.”

Genesis 6:8–9 NKJV    https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/gen/6/8-9/s_6008

“God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell (Tartarus, Abyssou) and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment.”

2 Peter 2:4 NKJV    https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/2pe/2/4/s_1158004

“Jesus asked him (demon possessed man) saying, ‘What is your name?’ And he said, ‘Legion,’ because many demons had entered him. And they begged Jesus that He would not command them to go out into the abyss.”

The angels suffered ruin because THEY EXALTED THEIR WILL OVER GOD’S WILL

“Then the fifth angel sounded: and I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit (Abyssou). And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.”

Revelation 9:1–6 NKJV    https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/rev/9/1-6/s_1176001

Jude warns us of the HYPER SPIRITUAL BEHAVIORS of the APOSTATES

“…Those who walk according to the flesh, in the lust of uncleanness, despise authority. They are presumptuous and self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries (high ranking spiritual beings), whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord. But these (people), like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and (they) will utterly perish in their own corruption.”

2 Peter 2:10–12 NKJV    https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/2pe/2/10-12/s_1158010

The best practice in spiritual battles is to RUN TO KING JESUS

“Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, ‘We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.’ Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, ‘Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?’ Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.”

Acts 19:13–16 NKJV    https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/act/19/13-16/s_1037013

“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross…

Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

Philippians 2:5–11 NKJV    https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/phl/2/5-11/s_1105005

Three common paths of apostasy:

1. The way of Cain 

2. The error of Balaam for profit

3. The rebellion of Korah

The way of Cain – Genesis 4

The way of Cain is: COMING TO GOD ON MY OWN TERMS instead of God’s terms

“And God said to Balaam, ‘You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people (Israel), for they are blessed.'”

Numbers 22:12 NKJV    https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/num/22/12/s_139012