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[[File:jude.jpg|right|250px|thumb|In the short epistle Jude professed the [[doctrines of Jesus]] and urged us to do the same with stern [[warnings]] concerning our ''spots'' that come from our dependence upon the [[welfare]] systems of the [[world]] and its [[covetous practices]] rather than the practice of [[pure Religion]].]]

The Epistle of Jude is a single chapter of 25 verses. It was an ''encyclical letter'' intended to be circulated and read in all churches dated between 70 and 90 AD.

Jude urges us to defend [[Christ]]'s doctrine which is the [[Doctrines of Jesus]] and to remember the words and [[warnings]] of the [[apostles]]. His words are similar to the second epistle of [[2 Peter|Peter]]. 

He warns of mockers and those ungodly souls who [[lust]].

Jude speaks of how the Lord saved his people out of the land of [[Egypt]], but also destroyed those who failed to believe, like the fallen angels.

Jude quotes the Book of Enoch, part of the scripture of the Ethiopian and Eritrean churches but rejected by other churches. and about [[Satan]] and Michael quarreling over the body of [[Moses]].

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== Jude 1 ==
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| The "error of [[Balaam]] for reward," is the error of the [[Nicolaitan]]s whose deeds God hates. They are the people conquered by their own [[covetous practices]] and made [[merchandise]] and [[curse children]] by making them a [[surety]] for debt.
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| It is the desire for the [[wages of unrighteousness]] that cultivates the selfish heart.
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| This is what the [[modern Christian]] has done in order to return to the [[bondage]] of [[Egypt]]. Because they were willing to have [[one purse]] and were ''greedy for gain'' at the expense of others. 
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| Because they were willing to sit at the table of rulers and ate with great [[appetite,]] they are [[snare]]d by his [[Proverbs 23|"dainties: for they are deceitful meat".]] 
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| They, their parents and grandparents [[consent]]ed to the [[Benefactors]] who [[exercise authority]] one over the other to get [[benefits]] like [[social security]], eating at a table that was supposed to be for their [[welfare]] but was actually a '''[[snare]]'''.
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| They pray daily to the ''[[Fathers]] of the earth'', not to their Father in Heaven nor His ordained [[saints]] for their daily bread, the [[daily ministration]] of His Church.
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|The "feasts of [[charity]]" of the [[modern Church]] are not the [[Pure Religion]] of the [[early Church]] but are more like the [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] which is the error of the [[Nicolaitan]]s.
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| '''Questions'''
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| Written before or after Peter.
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| Verses 14–15 may contain direct quotations from 1 Enoch 1:9 the book "Enoch, the seventh from Adam" is also sourced from 1 En. 60:1. Others think it more likely an expansion of the words of Moses from [[Deuteronomy 33]]:2.
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| The full identity of Jude is continuously debated, but what is not debated is his scholarship. Since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, there is little doubt the author of the Epistle of Jude was familiar with the Book of Enoch and was influenced by it or copies of it or similar writings.
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| Verse 25 our God is not the [[gods]] of [[Rome]] but is our Lord and sovereign who has ''dominion''<Ref name="dominion">{{2904}}</Ref> through [[Kingdom of God|His government]] if we will [[seek]] His [[righteousness]] according to the [[perfect law of liberty]] and the [[1849|power]] to choose<Ref name="power">{{1849}}</Ref> granted us by His [[grace]] in the present tense.
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:1 Jude, the servant of [[Jesus]] [[Christ]], and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the [[Father]], and preserved in Jesus [[Christ]], and called:

:2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and [[love]], be multiplied.

:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained<Ref>{{4270}}</Ref> to this condemnation<Ref>{{2917}}</Ref>, ungodly men, turning the [[grace]] of our God into [[lasciviousness]]<Ref>{{766}}</Ref>, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of [[Egypt]], afterward destroyed them that believed not.

:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

:7 Even as Sodom<Ref name="Sinsodm">{{Sinsodm}}</Ref> and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication<Ref>{{1608}}</Ref>, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers<Ref>{{1797}}</Ref> defile the flesh, despise dominion<Ref>{{2963}}</Ref>, and speak evil of dignities<Ref>{{1391}}</Ref>.<Ref>2 Peter 2:10 ¶ But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and '''despise government'''[ is translated "despise dominion" in Jude 8]. Presumptuous [are they], selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities[translated [[1391|glory]].</Ref>

:9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of [[Moses]], durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord [[Congregations of Rebuke|rebuke]] thee.

:10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute<Ref>{{249}}</Ref> beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.<Ref>[[2 Peter 2]]:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;</Ref>

:11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of [[Cain]]<Ref name="unright">{{unright}}</Ref>, and ran greedily after the error of [[Balaam]]<Ref name="unright">{{unright}}</Ref> for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.<Ref name="Errorbn">{{Errorbn}}</Ref> <Ref name="altarss">{{altarss}}</Ref>

:12 These are spots in your feasts of [[charity]], when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his [[saints]],

:15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own [[lust]]s; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

:17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the [[apostles]] of our Lord [[Jesus]] Christ;

:18 How that they told you there should be mockers<Ref>{{1703}}</Ref> in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly [[lust]]s.

:19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy [[faith]], praying in the [[Holy Ghost]],

:21 Keep yourselves in the [[love]] of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto [[eternal life]].

:22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:

:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted<Ref name="Spotsq">{{Spotsq}}</Ref> by the flesh.

:24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

:25 To the only wise<Ref>{{4680}}</Ref> God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion<Ref name="dominion"></Ref> and [[1849|power]],<Ref name="power"></Ref> both now and ever. Amen.


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