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This is just to let you know that I won't have time to write a weblog today. We have company today from out of town, and I also had some important business to attend to that took up most of the morning. Meanwhile, we again experienced an attack on the... Read More
Our study in Jude has been a bit unusual, not so much in the content itself but in an underlying purpose. God has been using it to stir up the various spiritual powers described in my commentary in order to bring them into the divine court for judgment. F... Read More
Series: Studies in the Book of Jude - The next analogy that Jude 12 presents in regard to the Gnostics is that they are like “autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted.” Fruitless Trees At the autumn season fruit trees ought to be full of ripe fruit, for that is the seaso... Read More
Series: Studies in the Book of Jude - Jude 12 and 13 uses multiple metaphors in describing the Gnostics infiltrating the early Church: 12 These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts [agape] when they feast with you without fear, caring for [poimaino, “feeding”] them... Read More
Series: Studies in the Book of Jude - Jude 11 compares the Gnostic infiltrators to Cain, Balaam, and Korah. We have discussed Cain and Balaam. We turn now to Korah. Jude 11 says that they “perished in the rebellion of Korah.” Background Israel had already failed to enter the Prom... Read More
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