Jude 8-13: Condemning the Rebels
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8 Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. 9 But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.” 10 But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. 11 Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error and perished in Korah’s rebellion. 12 These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; 13 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
Outline
Outline
Jude 1-4 - Greetings
Jude 1-4 - Greetings
Jude 1-2 - Introduction
Jude 3-4 - Purpose
Jude 5-7 - Past Rebellions
Jude 5-7 - Past Rebellions
Jude 5 - Jesus as the Israelites in the Exodus
Jude 6 - Disobedient Angels
Jude 7 - The Example of Sodom & Gomorrah
Jude 8-13 - Condemning the Rebels
Jude 8-13 - Condemning the Rebels
Jude 8 - Ungodly Dreamers
Jude 9 - Example of Michael
Jude 10-11 - Ungodly Blasphemers
Jude 12-13 - Descriptions of the Rebels
Purpose of Jude
Purpose of Jude
Encourage the body to contend for the faith and to address ungodly people who were perverting the Gospel/doctrine
Encourage the body to contend for the faith and to address ungodly people who were perverting the Gospel/doctrine
Main Point
Main Point
Jude now turns his attention to present day rebels. These individuals face a grim eternal destination as a result of their ungodly gain.
Jude now turns his attention to present day rebels. These individuals face a grim eternal destination as a result of their ungodly gain.
Jude 8 - Ungodly Dreamers
Jude 8 - Ungodly Dreamers
8 Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.
Yet in a like manner these people also, relying on their dreams,
Yet in a like manner these people also, relying on their dreams,
In a like manner
These people
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Relying on their dreams
“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
For the household gods utter nonsense,
and the diviners see lies;
they tell false dreams
and give empty consolation.
Therefore the people wander like sheep;
they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.
Defile the flesh,
Defile the flesh,
then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.
Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,
Defile
② to cause the purity of someth. to be violated by immoral behavior, defile
Reject authority,
Reject authority,
Reject
② to reject by not recognizing someth. or someone
Authority
② esp. the majestic power that the κύριος wields, ruling power, lordship, dominion
And blaspheme the glorious ones.
And blaspheme the glorious ones.
and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.
Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,
Blaspheme
• to speak in a disrespectful way that demeans, denigrates, maligns
ⓑ in relation to transcendent or associated entities slander, revile, defame, speak irreverently/impiously/disrespectfully of or about
Glorious Ones
④ a transcendent being deserving of honor, majestic being,
Jude 9 - Example of Michael
Jude 9 - Example of Michael
9 But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
But when the archangel Michael,
But when the archangel Michael,
Archangel Michael
a member of the higher ranks in the celestial hierarchy, chief angel, archangel
The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days, but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I was left there with the kings of Persia,
But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince.
Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back,
The Names of the Archangels
20 These are the angels of powers: 2 Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the world and the Tartarus; 3 Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of humans; 4 Raguel, one of the holy angels, who avenges the world of luminaries; 5 Michael, one of the holy angels, who was appointed over the good ones of the people and over the chaos; 6 Sariel, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits who sin in the spirit; 7 Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over orchard and the dragons and cherubim. These are the seven names of the archangels.
Contending with the devil,
Contending with the devil,
The Devil
the adversary/devil
Was disputing about the body of Moses,
Was disputing about the body of Moses,
Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, the Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar. And the Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.” So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord, and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no one knows the place of his burial to this day.
William Barkley
The Letters of John and Jude Contempt for the Angels (Jude 8–9)
The story in The Assumption of Moses runs as follows. The strange story of the death of Moses is told in Deuteronomy 34:1–6. The Assumption of Moses goes on to add the further story that the task of burying the body of Moses was given to the archangel Michael. The devil argued with Michael about possession of the body. He based his claim on two grounds. Moses’ body was matter; matter was evil; and, therefore, the body belonged to him, for matter was his domain. Second, Moses was a murderer, for had he not slain the Egyptian whom he saw beating the Israelite (Exodus 2:11–12)? And, if he was a murderer, the devil had a claim on his body. The point Jude is making is this. Michael was engaged on a task given to him by God; the devil was seeking to stop him and was making claims he had no right to make. But, even in a chain of circumstances like that, Michael spoke no evil of the devil but simply said: ‘The Lord rebuke you!’ If the greatest of the good angels refused to speak evil of the greatest of the evil angels, even in circumstances like that, then surely no human being may speak evil of any angel.
Did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment,
Did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment,
Presume
Dare to say
Pronounce
⑤ to bring charges or make accusations
Blasphemous judgment
speech that denigrates or defames, reviling, denigration, disrespect, slander
ⓑ of the judgment of one person upon or against another, in the nature of an evaluation
But said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
But said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
Rebuke
① to express strong disapproval of someone, rebuke, reprove, censure also speak seriously, warn in order to prevent an action or bring one to an end.
And the Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, O Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?”
Jude 10-11 - Ungodly Blasphemers
Jude 10-11 - Ungodly Blasphemers
10 But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. 11 Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
But these people
But these people
These people
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Blaspheme all that they do not understand,
Blaspheme all that they do not understand,
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
And they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.
And they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.
But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,
Destroyed
③ to inflict punishment, destroy in the sense ‘punish w. eternal destruction’
Unreasoning animals
① pert. to lack of reasoning capacity, without reason of animals
Woe to them!
Woe to them!
Them
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
For they walked in the way of Cain
For they walked in the way of Cain
They
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Walked
② to conduct oneself, live, walk
Way
ⓑ way of life, way of acting, conduct
Cain
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?” And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground. And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.” Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, you have driven me today away from the ground, and from your face I shall be hidden. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.” Then the Lord said to him, “Not so! If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” And the Lord put a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him. Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.
We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.
And abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error
And abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error
Abandoned
③ to give oneself totally in commitment, give oneself up to, dedicate oneself
Sake of gain
① remuneration for work done, pay, wages
Balaam’s error
Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing, but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
Numbers 22-24
Balaam was paid to pronounce a curse on Israel
And perished in Korah’s rebellion.
And perished in Korah’s rebellion.
Korah’s rebellion against Moses & Aaron
Numbers 16
Jude 12-13 - Descriptions of the Rebels
Jude 12-13 - Descriptions of the Rebels
These are hidden reefs at your love feasts
These are hidden reefs at your love feasts
suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.
Hidden reefs
① (s. DELG 1 σπίλο) a rocky hazard hidden by waves, a rock washed by the sea, a (hidden) reef
Love feasts
Lord’s Supper
As they feast with you without fear
As they feast with you without fear
Without fear
• In Jd 12 ἀ. can be rendered either boldly or without reverence, shamelessly, the point being arrogant disregard of responsibility for one’s manner of life.
Shepherds feeding themselves;
Shepherds feeding themselves;
These false teachers did not protect the flock - they used their influence for their own personal gain
So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
Waterless clouds, swept along by winds;
Waterless clouds, swept along by winds;
These individuals lacked the substance of the living water that God gives through the Gospel
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
Fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
Fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
False teachers have no spiritual fruit and experience physical and spiritual death
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame;
Wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame;
Given to immoral behavior and sin that becomes public
This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.
Wandering stars, from whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
Wandering stars, from whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
False teachers have generated disorder in God’s good plan as they pervert his grace and deny Jesus
He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.
Application
Application
False teachers will infiltrate the church and they have warning signs
False teachers will infiltrate the church and they have warning signs
These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
Lead for self-gain
Unbiblical theology/doctrine - leading people from Jesus
No Gospel fruit & will experience two deaths
wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
Given to immoral & sinful behavior that becomes public
Create disorder within the body
Be encouraged - God rescues his sheep from false teachers
Be encouraged - God rescues his sheep from false teachers
Main Point
Main Point
Jude now turns his attention to present day rebels. These individuals face a grim eternal destination as a result of their ungodly gain.
Jude now turns his attention to present day rebels. These individuals face a grim eternal destination as a result of their ungodly gain.
