Lesson 6
Jude
Maintaining
the Faith Entrusted to Us
1:6 Second Example Fallen Angels
Have 2 statements that describes
the activity of these fallen angels that prompted the judgment mentioned.
#1 And angels who did not keep
their own domain
their own domain avrch word means dominion, rule,
authority
#2 but abandoned their proper abode,
Consequence of rebellion
He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness
for the judgment of the great
day.
3rd Example is
Just as
- Need to know that
there is always a penalty for leaving God's clearly established will for us,
principle that is always true!
since they in the same way as
these
indulged in gross immorality
are exhibited as an example
in undergoing the punishment of
eternal fire.
Summary
Observations 1:7
1. The angels of Gen.
6 and the people of S&G
shared a similar sin. They both crossed over a divinely
established barrier; which in both cases involved sexuality.
2. The phrase "pursued after strange flesh"
describes the angelic fornication as well as the homosexual vice of S&G.
3. Both groups turned
from the right way, God's design, by their own choice and intensely pursued
that which was against nature. Rom 1:26-27 [homosexuality is an OSN problem, not
an alternate lifestyle]
4. Both Peter and Jude
declare that the total destruction of S&G [south end of the
5. They suffered in
time for their rebellion against God, before God judged the cites.
- Gen. 19:11; struck
with blindness, still actively pursued their lusts
6. They are today in
conscious suffering [torments] in Hades, Sheol while awaiting the 2nd
resurrection and GWTJ. [Lk. 16:22-24]
7. Their eternal
punishment in LOF is the result of their rebellion and rejection of God, failed
to believe.
8. Warning here is
this: Remember S&G; Know that God judges sin and
unbelief.