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.

3^rd Example is Sodom and Gomorrah 1:7

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them

- 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 Dead Sea] is a continuous warning to mankind of God's judgement on those who violate His standards.

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 2^nd 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.