Trios of Evil, 4of6

~ Children of Israel – Rebellious Angels – Cities of Sodom & Gomorrah ~

In the Book of Jude we find three apostate groups (identified in this post) and three apostate individuals (identified in the next post).

Key Scripture ~ “Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.  For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ” (Jude 3-4).  This is the lead in paragraph to the following verses. 

Children of Israel ~ “But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe” (Jude 5).  Do not presume on past mercy and grace from your Savior.  The warning is that past spirituality does not substitute for current reality.  In essence your Christianity needs to be part of current events and not just past history.  How are you doing?

Rebellious Angels ~ “And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day” (Jude 6).  The angels gave up their dignity!  Christian, do you realize all the benefits of your spiritual birthright?  Are you living in the victory and joy of your position as an adopted child of the Creator?

Cities of Sodom & Gomorrah ~ “As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire” (Jude 7).  The evil here is misuse of God-given sexuality.  Improper sexual lust and behavior is a major characteristic of most of today’s cultures—especially the more “sophisticated open-minded” societies.  God’s righteousness and His standards have not changed.  How are you doing?  Are you able to keep your actions (and thoughts) pure in God’s sight? 

Additional Comment ~ Peter in his second epistle mentions a somewhat similar trio of God’s judgment: the condemnation of fallen angels, the great flood of Noah’s day, and Sodom & Gomorrah.

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW

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