Jude 5-7: Past Rebellions
Introduction
Scripture
Outline
Jude 1-4 - Greetings
Jude 5-7 - Past Rebellions
Purpose of Jude
Encourage the body to contend for the faith and to address ungodly people who were perverting the Gospel/doctrine
Main Point
Past rebellions against God occured just like what you are experiencing from these ungodly, false teachers
Jude 5 - Jesus as the Israelites in the Exodus
Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it,
disclosure formula. A group of words that introduces new information or reminds the readers of previously communicated information.
② pert. to a single occurrence and decisively unique, once and for all
That Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt,
① to preserve or rescue fr. natural dangers and afflictions
bring out safely fr. a situation fraught w. mortal danger
Afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
① to consider someth. to be true and therefore worthy of one’s trust,
Jude 6 - Disobedient Angels
And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling,
⑦ the sphere of one’s official activity
a place for living, dwelling, habitation, of angels
The Sons of Heaven and the Evil Deeds of Their Children
6 And it happened that when the sons of humans multiplied in those days, they fathered good and beautiful daughters. 2 And the angels, the sons of heaven, saw them and desired them and said to one another, “Come let us choose for ourselves women from among the humans and bring forth children for ourselves.” 3 And Semiaza, who was their ruler, said to them, “I fear you may not wish to do this deed and I alone will be responsible for a great sin.” 4 Therefore they all answered him, “Let us all swear by an oath, and devote one another to mutual destruction, not to turn back from this decision until we complete it and do this deed.” 5 Then they all made a vow together and put each other under a curse in regard to this.
7 These are the names of their rulers: Semiaza (this was their ruler of all the angels), Arathak, Kimbra, Sammane, Daniel, Arearos, Semiel, Iomiel, Chochariel, Ezekiel, Batriel, Sathiel, Atriel, Tamiel, Barakiel, Ananthna, Thoniel, Rhamiel, Aseal, Rhakiel, Touriel. 8 These are the chiefs of tens among them.
7 Then they took for themselves women, each of them choosing a woman for themselves. They began to go to them and defile them. And they taught them sorcery and enchantments and cutting of roots and explained herbs to them.
2 But those who became pregnant brought forth great giants from three thousand cubits. 3 These giants ate up the produce of the humans. When the humans were not able to provide for them, 4 the giants had courage against them and ate up the humans. 5 And they began to sin against birds and wild animals and reptiles and fish, and each one of them ate up the flesh and drank the blood. 6 Then the earth brought up charges against the lawless ones.
51 And it came to pass when the children of men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them, that the angels of God saw them on a certain year of this jubilee, that they were beautiful to look upon; and they took themselves wives of all whom they chose, and they bare unto them sons and they were giants. 2 And lawlessness increased on the earth and all flesh corrupted its way, alike men and cattle and beasts and birds and everything that walks on the earth—all of them corrupted their ways and their orders, and they began to devour each other, and lawlessness increased on the earth and every imagination of the thoughts of all men (was) thus evil continually. 3 And God looked upon the earth, and behold it was corrupt, and all flesh had corrupted its orders, and all that were upon the earth had wrought all manner of evil before His eyes. 4 And He said that He would destroy man and all flesh upon the face of the earth which He had created. 5 But Noah found grace before the eyes of the Lord. 6 And against the angels whom He had sent upon the earth, He was exceedingly wroth, and He gave commandment to root them out of all their dominion, and He bade us to bind them in the depths of the earth, and behold they are bound in the midst of them, and are (kept) separate. 7 And against their sons went forth a command from before His face that they should be smitten with the sword, and be removed from under heaven. 8 And He said ‘My spirit shall not always abide on man; for they also are flesh and their days shall be one hundred and twenty years’. 9 And He sent His sword into their midst that each should slay his neighbour, and they began to slay each other till they all fell by the sword and were destroyed from the earth. 10 And their fathers were witnesses (of their destruction), and after this they were bound in the depths of the earth for ever, until the day of the great condemnation, when judgment is executed on all those who have corrupted their ways and their works before the Lord. 11 And He †destroyed† all from their places, and there †was† not left one of them whom He judged not according to all their wickedness. 12 And he †made† for all his works a new and righteous nature, so that they should not sin in their whole nature for ever, but should be all righteous each in his kind alway. 13 And the judgment of all is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets in righteousness—even (the judgment of) all who depart from the path which is ordained for them to walk in; and if they walk not therein, judgment is written down for every creature and for every kind. 14 And there is nothing in heaven or on earth, or in light or in darkness, or in Sheol or in the depth, or in the place of darkness (which is not judged); and all their judgments are ordained and written and engraved.
12 Before these words were spoken Enoch was taken, and none of the humans knew where he was taken and where he was and what had happened to him. 2 And his works were with the watchmen, and his days were with the holy ones.
3 And standing there, I, Enoch, was blessing the Lord of greatness, the King of the eternities; and behold the watchmen of the Holy Great One called me: 4 “Enoch, scribe of righteousness, go and speak to the watchmen of heaven—any who abandoned the high heaven, the holy eternal place, who were defiled with the women and just as the sons of the earth did, they did the same also, and took for themselves women. You have brought great destruction on the earth. 5 And there will be no peace for you, nor remission of sins. And though they rejoice in their children, 6 they will see the murder of their beloved ones, and they will groan over the destruction of their children. They will be bound for eternity, and there will be for them no mercy and peace.”
Enoch’s Message to the Fallen Angels
13 Enoch said to Azael, “Go: There will be no peace for you; great judgment has come out against you to bind you. 2 There will be neither pause nor questioning for you about which wrongs you made known and about all works of ungodliness, wrongdoing, and sin, all that you declared to the humans.”
He has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day —
② esp. darkness of the nether regions
① legal process of judgment, judging, judgment
ⓐ of the activity of God or the Messiah as judge, esp. on the Last Day
Jude 7 - The Example of Sodom & Gomorrah
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immortality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
indulge in illicit sexual relations/debauchery
But what does the expression unnatural lust refer to? The Greek simply has “other flesh,” or “different flesh.” Some scholars have understood this to mean having sexual relations with people of the same sex, as, for example, men with men (see Rom 1:26–27; 1 Cor 6:9). Others take the position that the focus here is not on homosexual acts but on the parallel between the angels and the men of Sodom and Gomorrah; in much the same way that the angels had sexual relations with human beings, so also the men of Sodom wanted to have sexual relations with angels. This latter point of view seems preferable because of the close relation between these two verses. However, it seems that in most languages, as in TEV, unnatural lust will be rendered as “sexual perversion,” “perverted sexual activity,” or “abnormal sexual activity,” without being more specific as to the nature of the sexual activity.
① punishment meted out as legal penalty
pert. to a period of unending duration, without
The fire w. which God punishes sinners
