Vs. 8. The descriptive list of characteristics of the false, continues. 4. They are dreamers (verse 8). Not sure where the word “filthy” (KJV) came from, but it is not in the original Greek. The phrase is “these men,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Commentary on Jude continued... Vs. 5-7. Examples of three former seductions and the outcomes of all. Jude interrupts his listing to remind his readers that this is not the first time that unbelievers have had to pay with their lives for...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
From yesterday... Vs. 4. Introduction to the seducers. These men were in the church but not of it. They “crept” in. Like a thief. Sly and stealthy was their entry. Unnoticed by the church, because they were so slick in their...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
COMMENTARY, THE LETTER OF JUDE Vs. 1-2. Intro, address. Judas, the lowest form of slave. That’s not feigned humility. He really believed that. For thirty-three years I assaulted God the Son in my own home, but in His own world. I am not fit...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Jude the letter. Someone named this book The Acts of the Apostates. It is a short but very powerful statement, addressed to the entire church of Jesus, regarding unbelievers who have infiltrated the church. In that sense it is not about...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
ACTS 2: The first believers If there is indeed a case that seems to demand two “works of grace”, it must be the case of the 11 disciples, who had received a measure of the Spirit from Jesus breathing on them (John 20:22). They...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The Steps of Salvation I have grown weary of formulas, even ones “based on the Bible” as they say. Whenever man comes up with a formula, death ensues. There are always other men who will try to follow the formula, and those men will...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Genesis 3:7 Ascetics and mystics have looked at this passage and reasoned that, since they covered their nakedness, there was something innately evil about the human body, and especially those parts of it that we call “private.” No....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
There is a pattern that begins to emerge when we trace these Satanic manifestations through the ages. Isaiah (chapter 14), like Ezekiel, begins with what seems to be a mere man, a nation-ruler who is cut down and brought to his end, covered with...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
It is the 570’s B.C. Soon Nebuchadnezzar will lay siege to the great city of Tyre, ruled then by one Itto-Baal II. This is the conclusion of Mr. Macarthur, and for now we let it stand. The outcome and far-reaching effect of this prophecy...[ abbreviated | read entire ]