Jude 12-13 These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

 

Jude prophesies of the false teachers who will infiltrate the Church in the Last Days. He refers to them as filthy dreamers and compares them to the unbelieving Israelites, fallen Angels, and the fornicators and homosexuals of Sodom and Gomorrah. 

 

In Verses 12-13, Jude writes more about such people. He begins by calling them spots in your love feasts. This would indicate that they are a blemish or dirty spot on the washed white robe of the Church. The love feasts refer to the Lord’s Supper, of which they partake, although they are not justified to do so. They participate in this Sacrament of the Body of Christ, serving only themselves. They have no belief and are there under false pretenses in hopes of attaining some sort of personal gain or fulfilling their lustful desires.

 

Jude goes on to call them clouds without water. They are empty and have nothing to offer the dry, thirsty ground below. They look good, but there is no substance inside.

 

He also says they are carried about by the winds; This means they move from fellowship to fellowship, seeking people who have no discernment and will accept them and their false teaching.

 

Jude says they are like late autumn trees without fruit,  Like trees in the fall of the year, there is no good fruit to feed the people of the Church. Good fruit does not come from bad trees.

 

twice dead,  would indicate that they were once dead in sin and now, due to their ungodly motivation, they have lost their place with God and are dead once again.

 

Because of their own choices, they have been pulled up by the roots and no longer have any tie to the fertile ground of the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Jude compares them to raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame;  The storm that rages within these people is fierce and stirs up all the evil that is within them. As their raging waves pound the shoreline of the peaceful fellowship of believers, they cause erosion and destruction.

 

The last part of the description is wandering stars. They have turned away from the Gospel of Christ and are now headed in the wrong direction as they drift off into space. The stars in the sky have always been used for navigational purposes, but these stars are no longer of any use to the Body of Christ in regard to giving proper direction to the fellowship. As God's people follow them, they too will wander off course.

 

Jude concludes by telling us what will happen to these filthy dreamers who seek to destroy the Kingdom of God. He wrote, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

 

We serve a God of Justice. He is merciful beyond measure, but He will not reduce His Sentence on those who seek to destroy His Kingdom. To those who have ears, let them hear.

 

Only God can……..turn the tide

 

Thank you God!     Doreen

 

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