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“ Summary, Part 5 (final) ” 2. Rebellion against our God-given roles and responsibilities can lead to apostasy from God. See 1 Cor 9:16 regarding preachers, 1 Tim 5:8 regarding husbands and fathers, 1 Tim 2:15 regarding wives and mothers, 1 Tim 5 regarding widows, and Jn 6:66 regarding professing Christians. C. ANGELS: THEIR DIVINE PUNISHMENT [56:55]. 1. ITS ELEMENTS: in eternal bonds under darkness. 2. ITS TIME: in the past. They have been in this bondage ever since and will be kept there until the final judgment. 3. ITS PRESENT EFFECT: permanent bondage; they cannot escape. 4. ITS ETERNAL OUTCOME: eternal judgment at the final judgment. LESSONS FROM THE ANGELS’ PUNISHMENT [1:00:50]: 1. Those who defect from God imitate the devil in his sin and in his punishment. 2. It is difficult to be highly privileged and yet not fall prey to the sin of pride. 3. Present punishment in hell will be reckoned mild compared to that of the great day. 4. The presence of apostate angels in the lake of fire will aggravate the misery of apostate men throughout eternity.
Ian Migala (3/16/2015)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 4 ” The other is popular and enduring, but it misunderstands Gen 6:1-5 and says that cohabited with human women and produced a race of giants. Among the problems with this argument: ‘sons of God’ refers either to elect angels (who didn’t fall) or believers and never of fallen angels; angels are spiritual beings, and so cannot consummate with humans; reproduction is only after its own kind, and angels can’t even procreate among themselves; and the giants they supposedly produced were already on the earth at the time. The Genesis passage speaks of a great human apostasy: of believers yoking with unbelievers and producing the “mighty men of old” such as Nimrod. Back to the angels’ rebellion: their sin was Lucifer’s first sin: pride (1 Tim 3:6). The Puritan William Jenkins suggests that their dissatisfaction was with their own state; as glorious as were their beings and circumstances, they were still beholden to God. And so it is true of us: when we stop trusting God, we turn inward and become our own gods. LESSONS FROM THE ANGELS’ REBELLION [50:18]. 1. Our happiness and holiness, like that of the angels, depend upon keeping our own domain and proper abode: of cheerfully embracing and carrying out our God-given roles and responsibilities in this life.
Ian Migala (3/16/2015)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 3 ” 4. Unbelief is no trivial sin. It will surely damn those who refuse to believe all that God says. II. APOSTATE ANGELS: HEAVENLY CREATURES THAT WERE DESTROYED FOR THEIR REBELLION (verse 6) [29:10]. A. ANGELS: THEIR ORIGINAL PROVINCE [29:58]. Province here means their assigned task: to serve God, communicate for Him, and execute His judgments. They were most likely created near the beginning of the creation week (Job 38:7). They are almost innumerable and have incredible strength: a single angel killed all the first born in Egypt; another killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers in single night. Their worship is spectacular (Rev 5:11-14). But what happened to the ones who fell? B. ANGELS: THEIR REBELLION AGAINST GOD [34:48]. They abandoned their task and heavenly abode. There are two major explanations of what exactly happened: one is that they simply followed Lucifer in his own rebellion (Rev 12:4). This is the biblical explanation.
Ian Migala (3/16/2015)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 2 ” B. ISRAEL: THEIR UNBELIEF [14:50]. Their glory was short-lived. Despite all these wonders, they committed idolatry at the foot of Mt. Sinai and complained endlessly. At Kadesh-Barnea, they were at the foot of the promised land, yet chose to listen to ten unbelieving spies instead of two believing ones and rebelled. God pronounced judgment on them (Num 14:22-23). C. ISRAEL: THEIR DESTRUCTION [20:02]. With the exception of the believing Joshua and Caleb, God destroyed everyone in the older generation (Ps 106:26, Deut 2:15-16, Ps 78:33, Num 14:30, 1 Cor 10, Heb 3-4). In Heb 3:7-12 and 4:1-2, we are warned about falling away from the living God as the Hebrews had in the wilderness. Seeing is not necessarily believing; neither is knowing LESSONS [26:45]: 1. Salvation from trials/troubles does not always indicate salvation from sin and hell. It rarely happens. Miracles do not produce faith in unbelievers. 2. To whom much is given, much is required. Therefore, great privilege should encourage great faith, especially when such privileged is followed by great deliverance. 3. Experience of divine deliverance that doesn’t lead you to God in saving faith will eventually lead you away from Him in rank unbelief.
Ian Migala (3/16/2015)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 1 ” In our study of the Book of Jude, we move on to verses 5 and 6. Though the elect are held by Christ forever, Jude warns of the power and persuasiveness of false teachers and how badly they corrupt the church. I. APOSTATE ISRAEL: A SAVED PEOPLE THAT WAS DESTROYED BECAUSE OF ITS UNBELIEF (verse 5) [starting at 5:43 of the audio]. A. ISRAEL: THEIR SALVATION [7:28]. Much of the first half of the Old Testament covers this story. God called Abram out of an idolatrous land, led him to the land of Canaan, and promised him descendants so numerous that they would be like the number of the stars. Under slavery in Egypt, they would grow into an estimated two million people. But Moses, a picture of Jesus Christ, would lead them out of that bondage. In the meantime, God wrought many miracles for His covenant people: plaguing Pharaoh’s land for his disobedience, parting the Red Sea to help the Hebrews escape, and crashing it back down upon Pharaoh and his armies as they pursued. In the wilderness, God fed them providentially, re-established His covenant with them at Sinai, and offered them the promised land of Israel.
