Purpose

• v3, Originally wanted to speak about the shared salvation between believers
• v3, contend for the faith
• v4 speaking against false teachers

Background

Author

• Jude and James (half brother of Jesus) (v1)
• Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ

Audience

• Believers (v1)

What do we know about these False Teachers?

• Relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones (v8)
• v10 blasphgeme all that they do not understand, destroyed by all that they understand instinctively
  • like unreasoning animals
• v11, walked in the way of Caine
  • Abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error and perished in Korah's rebellion
• v12
  • Hidden reefs at your love feasts
• v17

All the Old Testament References

• Exodus
• Sodom and Gomorrah
• v9 is this a reference?
• Cain
• Balaam
• Korah's Rebellion
• Enoch

Outline

Greeting (v1-2)

Author's Tone

• "Woe to them!" v11
  • Rebuking, judgement

v3-4

Jude gives the purpose of the letter. The Issue of False Teacher in the church

To defend the faith against false teacher who pervert the truth.

v17-23 A Call to Persevere

24-25 Doxology

v5-7

Those who did not believe from the Exodus were destroyed, like wise the angles, and those in Sodom, Gomorrah, and the surrounding cities as an example were cast into eternal judgement.

There will be no mercy on false teachers.

v11

• Cain
• Balaam's Error (2 Peter 2:15-16, Revelation 2:14)
  • what is Balaam's error
• Korah's Rebellion

the pridiction of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ

Warning to believers and judgement on the false teachers

v12 What is a love feast? 🤔

v14-16

v14-15

• Enoch's quote

Blaspheme (v8, 10)

• Relying on their dream
• defile the flesh
• reject authority
• blashpheme the the glorious ones (Plural? Who?)

v9 Where is this quoting from?

v8-13

On top of what was mentioned for the false teacher in the last paragraph, these false teacher in addition...

• Again with eternal judgement with "forever" in v13b

v5 Jesus who saved the people out of Egypt, the author didn't say Moses 🤔 'afterward destroyed those who did not believe' what is this referring to?

v6 Talking about Satan and his angles

v7 Sodom and Gomorrah

Korah's Rebellion (Numbers 16:1-40)

• Challenging of Moses' leadership
• Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab
  • Numbers 16:13, 'brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us?'
    • they equate Egypt as a land flowing with milk and honey
    • basically, saying that God is not good for bringing them out of egypt
  • 'will you put out the eyes of these men?', what does this phrase mean?
• v20-24, Korah, Dathan, and Abiram were obviously not approved by God
  • revolting against God's leader -> revolting against God
• They were swallowed up by the earth
• v41-50 Literally the next day the people rebelled again.

Perhaps the false teachers were challenging the apostleship

Balaam's Error (Numbers 22)

• Mention also in 2 Peter 2:15-16 and Revelation 2:14
• Compromise to gain financial gain
• Numbers 22:32
• It obvious that Balaam going with the men is wrong, but God still allowed him to go.

Mixed within the people of God, were those that aren't "those who did not believe"

No mercy on the angles that repel