raging waves of the
sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the
blackness of darkness forever.
Jude 13
Dear Heavenly
Father, I lean on you. Though trials may
come my way, no matter what happens, help me to lean on you. Keep me humble, keep me grounded in your
Word. Thank you for all that you have
given me, my family, and my friends.
Please guide me tonight to understand Your Word. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
Jude continues to
describe the fate of the false teachers. To bring deeper understanding to today's
text, let's examine some key words and their companion or similar verses.
"Raging"
in the Greek is agrios which means
fierce, wild, savage, untamed, living in fields. "Waves" in the Greek is kuma which means surge, billow, swell,
impulsive and restless men tossed to and fro by their raging passions. "Sea" in the Greek is thalassa which means lake, in contrast to
land, seashore. Isaiah 57:20-21 states
"But the wicked are like the troubled sea, When it cannot rest, Whose
waters cast up mire and dirt. 'There is no peace,' Says my God, 'for the
wicked.'” These false teachers will have
no rest or peace. They will be troubled
and controlled by their untamed passions.
"Foaming"
in the Greek is epaphrizo which means
foam out, seaweed and refuse borne on the crest of waves, vomit forth, casting,
godless and graceless, compelled by restless passions they unblushingly exhibit
in word and deed, their base and abandoned spirit. "Shame" in the Greek is aischune which means disgrace, shamefulness,
shameful deeds, bad character, baseness (lack of moral principles). 2 Corinthians 4:2 states "But we have
renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling
the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending
ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God." These false teachers unblushingly vomit forth
their lack of moral principles. They
handle the Word of God with deceit and malice.
Philippians 3:19 states "whose end is destruction, whose god is
their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly
things."
"Wandering"
in the Greek is planetes which means
wanderer, operating without a moral compass and exploiting other aimless people
prompting them to stray from God's safety.
"Stars" in the Greek is aster
which means comets that have left the course prescribed by God and wander at
will. Isaiah 14:12 states "How you
are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to
the ground, You who weakened the nations!"
These dreamers have left God operating without a moral compass to lure
the world away from God.
"Reserved"
in the Greek is tereo which means keep,
guard, observe, watch over, maintain, preserve, keep intact, kept in custody,
hold firmly. "Blackness" in
the Greek is zophos which means
murkiness, appalling gloom, so dark and foreboding that it is "felt,"
indescribable despair.
"Darkness" in the Greek is skotos
which means the principle of sin with its certain results, dark place,
unhappiness, unpleasantness.
"Forever" in the Greek is aion
which means age, cycle of time, ages stretching to infinity, contrast present
age with future age, time span, eternal, eternity. 2 Peter 2:17 states "These are wells
without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness
of darkness forever." These
dreamers are in sin's custody awaiting the heavy appalling gloom, unhappiness,
unpleasantness, indescribable despair for time that stretches to infinity.
These false teachers
exhausted by their untamed passions will, without regret, handle the Word of God
with deceit to lure the world away from God.
Bound up in sin, they wait for the just and unquenchable fire that never
ends. The world owns them encouraging
them to bring as many others with them as possible. They are lost in a massive storm at sea casting
off God's moral compass trying to survive on their own.
Be grounded in His Word, trust in His
provision, be free of the world. Spend your time on earth focused on Him and
your heart will be full. If you follow
the world, anything you try to calm your heart will end in despair and
unhappiness. The world is a quick
evaporating high that gets shorter and more painful the more you embrace it.
wild waves of the
sea, flinging up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the gloom
of deep darkness has been reserved forever.
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