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JUDE V.18 &
19.
A REBUKE.
"'In
the final age
there will be men who pour scorn on religion, and follow their own
Godless lusts.'
These men draw a line between spiritual and unspiritual persons, although they
are themselves
wholly unspiritual."
(Jude V.18,19 NEB).
"These are the people who set up
divisions and distinctions, low creatures,
destitute of the Spirit."
(V.19 Moffatt).
"These are the ones making separations,
soulical, Spirit not having."
(V.19 Greek Interlinear Translation).
These men are also described as
"a blot on your love-feasts, where they
eat and drink without
reverence. (1)
They are
shepherds who take care only of themselves. (2)
They are clouds carried away by the wind without giving rain,
trees that in season
bear no fruit, (3)
dead twice over
and pulled up by the roots. (4)
They are fierce waves of the sea,
foaming shameful deeds, (5)
they are stars that have wandered from their course, and
the place for ever
reserved for them is blackest darkness."
(V.12,13 NEB).
THOSE OF ELI'S "HOUSE" TODAY.
With reference to Jude
verses 12 and 13, currently there are child abusers (paedophiles) and practising
homosexuals among apostate priests occupying the spiritual "land" of God. There
are even apostate priests overseeing and sheltering them. All
these men have lost their hope in God. They are "dead twice over"
and "uprooted". Although some faithful servants of God suffer
ringing in their ears, they have not offended God as Eli and his sons did. But
the future of priests occupying the spiritual "land" of God and playing false to
Him is "blackest darkness." (1 Sam 3:10 14
NEB).
Sadly, the great majority of mankind face the
same destructive end, for they hate any mention of spiritual principles. They
only feel comfortable with worldliness, and feel under scrutiny and resentful
when the Word of God is spoken to them.
There are men who are fond of preaching the word
to others, but who disobey the "Way" of The Christ themselves disparaging others that they may appear righteous before men.
Setting up "divisions and distinctions" among others, they are
destitute of the Spirit of God. All these sectarian misleaders are being
revealed as never before in this "final age". The "dragon"
satan is also being uprooted, and although his evil influence among his
followers is well established, it will continue only for "a short period
of time." (Rev 12:12).
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OF REFERENCES (1) to
(5): |
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(1) |
Apostates
who "eat and drink without reverence" for God show a lack of
respect for His Godship when in the company of those meeting
with them to worship and praise God. |
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(2) |
Apostate priests are
valueless "shepherds" who have only their own selfish
interests at heart. |
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(3) |
Apostate
priests do not have "fruitage of the spirit" to give in due
season. (Gal 5:22,23). |
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(4) |
Apostate
"shepherds" shall suffer the everlasting "second death".
(Rev 20:13-15). |
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(5) |
Child
sex abuse and homosexuality among apostate priests are "shameful deeds". |
26/11/02.
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