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Jude
Jude identifies himself only as “the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James” — almost certainly the same James who led the Jerusalem church, which makes Jude a third brother of the Lord (Matthew 13:55), one who, like James, did not believe in Jesus during His earthly ministry (John 7:5) and only came to faith after the resurrection. He wrote intending to write about “the common salvation,” and instead found himself writing something far more urgent: a one-chapter warning that false teachers had already “crept in unawares” among believers, turning grace into license.
What follows is one of the strangest chapters in the New Testament — three swift Old Testament examples of judgment, a dispute between the archangel Michael and the devil over the body of Moses, and a direct quotation from the prophecy of Enoch, the seventh from Adam, naming the Lord’s own return with ten thousands of His saints. All of it serves one plain charge, repeated in different words from the first verse to the last: contend for the faith, and keep yourselves in the love of God. This series reads the whole book in a single study, exactly as it did with Obadiah.
