Jude Session 7 (Verses 14-16) with Chuck Missler

[Music] we got last time down to verse 13 did we not the five word pictures and um we got that brought us 2 14. verse 14 in the book of jude and enoch also the seventh from adam prophesied of these of whom and there's a pronoun these antecedent is these apostates all these people that are twice dead and all those things right and raging waves all these idioms that we talked about in verses 12 in fact the whole book up till now but certainly the last few verses were focusing on the apostates these false teachers these these that would have you go astray it says anyway verse 14 also the seventh from adam prophesied of thee saying behold the lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints that's the king james we'll come back to that to execute judgment upon all and to convict all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed you get the feeling he's emphasizing something there and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him what is it how many five times there anyway a bunch okay that's the passage we're going to start with and focus on tonight this is a prophecy it's probably the earliest recorded prophecy of a prophet i'm saying it that way because genesis chapter 3 verse 15 is a prophecy uttered by none under the lord himself as he declares war on satan in genesis 3 15 but the earliest recorded words of a prophet are these words of enoch and we're going to get it if it were not for jude the epistle written by the lord's brother we would not you and i would know practically nothing about uh prophecy before the flood we know all about cities cattle raising fine arts education manufacturing all those things show up in genesis chapter 4 but prophecy doesn't and enoch is the only prophet whose words have been preserved for us now as i mentioned the words similar to verses 14 and 15 appear in the book of enoch an apocryphal book there are some differences but i'll highlight the differences later and they will speak for themselves but the book of enoch is a patchwork of fanciful unscriptural material i don't think it will profit us to go further than that because there's so much substance that we can really get into now one of the things that we've talked about before and i'd like to just review with you are examples in the scripture where illusions are to us new where the writer is making reference to something that his readers knew but you and i don't in jude of course we had that occur with michael's dispute with satan over the body of moses he he makes reference to that like we knew all about it and for you and i we say wait a minute you know we dropped our pencil during that we we missed that lesson right and so we encountered there same thing occurs here with the book of enoch peter did the same thing if you recall ii peter 2 5 describes noah as a preacher of righteousness now if it wasn't for peter we wouldn't know that you really have to read into that count in genesis to get that percent we understand noah and his mission all that the fact that he was a preacher we would not know but for peter's letter a couple of things in the in the letters of paul paul names the two magicians in egypt you all remember the story where moses had his staff which turned his serpent eat the two serpents of the two magicians right well they're names janice and jamberry's we're not in the old testament yet paul tells us the names of those in second timothy letter second timothy chapter three something else there are words of our lord jesus christ quoted that are not in the gospel we all know it's more blessed to give than receive well he doesn't say that in matthew mark luke or john he says that max 20. if you can you can dig into that if you like and also the other brother of christ that wrote an epistle namely james uh point out that elijah's stopping the rain for three and a half years um was linked uh the drought was linked to the prayers of the prophet and ahab's reign the drought is mentioned by none of the lord in luke 4 but the linking to the drought to elijah's prayers is we're indebted to james for that insight so those are just examples or lots of others a whole bunch of things out of acts 7 from stephen and so on so first of all don't get uncomfortable with this idea that the holy spirit has preserved this truth even though the form of it is an allusion to something that the writer presumes you know okay that's a figure of speech there are all kinds of figures of speech there's actually a list and one biblical source i have of i think i think 83 different figures of speech i mean similes allegories you can make a list there's 83 different things this is one that's a figure of speech it's an illusion but anyway as far as we're concerned it's an insight now it starts out as enoch also the seventh from adam now why does he mention that it's the seventh from adam it was adam seth enos kane mahalia jared and enoch why does he say the seventh from adam because there's a third there's another enoch that was of the line of cane bad apple you know bad guy and so this distinguishes this enoch from the other enoch which does surface in genesis 4. so that's that main idea now i'd like before we get into genesis 5 it's going to be useful to focus on genesis 4. the last verse of genesis 4 has a misunderstanding in it one of the things that makes genesis an important study is there are many things in the book that we suffer from the translations we've had and sometime we'll take on the whole subject of the serpent in genesis 3 what that really was it wasn't a serpent that's just that's another whole story but let's take genesis 4 verse 20 uh well to give you the flavor of it we have in genesis 4 we have the descendants of of cain that takes you down about verse 24. then we get to and by the way there's lots of these names that are are repeated in other words there's a lamech also under cain that's a different lamech than the one we're going to be interested later so recognize some of those names are are probably common names of the time to some extent and then in chapter 4 25 we have the birth of seth then we get to verse 26 and to set there also the king was born a son and he called his name enosh right then it says then began men to call upon the name of the lord doesn't that sound great well that's so you say if you're reading that you're sort of puzzled because you got the impression that abel and adam and there's a whole bunch that called on the name lord what happened here in verse 26 to this descent to the first son of seth and the tragedy is it's slightly mistranslated what it really says is then men began to profane the name of the lord and by the way i would say 19 commentaries out of 20 don't bring this out so you say well wait a minute chuck are you sure you're right see what it really says in the hebrew is they called something by the name of the lord and if you translate it casually it sounds like they call upon the name of the lord if you look carefully at the hebrew it implies they call something else the name of the lord so they're profaning the name of the lord now the targum of ankalas which is one of these ancient texts says that they desisted from praying in the name of the lord the targum of jonathan says they surnamed their idols in the name of the lord uh kimchi rashi and other ancient jewish commentators all agree with this and jerome one of the classic historians also indicates that this view is widely held in the jews of his day mamanides in his commentary on the mishnah which is a constituent part of the talmud published about 1168 also ascribes the origin of idolatry to the days of enos now this isn't a big deal except to get the tone of chapter five if you're just reading through genesis and you stumble over verse 26 you wouldn't pick up the fact that there's a problem now one of the things to get in perspective we have and i don't want to derail this whole evening on a recap of genesis but adam we have a very um not myopic naive view of this of the period before genesis 6. we we have many misconceptions about adam and eve and their descendants to give you one perception adam lived to see probably we're guessing but probably five million people that were his offspring also what's worth your doing when you get home sometime when you're in the mood to do this is take the genealogies and their ages and when they give birth and make a chart all you can find in a study bible that's cheating do it yourself take adam and how old he was when certain births were taken place and how long he lived doing a little chart and lay out these lifetimes recognize first of all that long longevity there's no reason not to take it literally we can get into a whole reason why they lived so long that's not important tonight but they did but they also overlapped there's a period of time that we're getting into here uh in the time of noah and so forth you know there were probably five or six seven key people still alive hashem the gran the son of noah lives beyond abram's birth by 54 years so you get a whole different perspective of these early this early era because these extremely long longevities but in any case when we get to the end of chapter four we have apostasy if i can use that term or or rebellion maybe it's more precise against the name of god now something else that again i don't want to get into too much tonight because it's off the subject sort of but you need to recognize that adam and eve and their forebears lived outside the garden but not far away and as these things start to grow that we start to get distance and other things and when cain lives in the land of nod and all of that so there's a whole perspective i don't want to get in i can't build a night it's not on the subject at the same time be aware of the fact that we jump to a lot of conclusions because the record that we have is such a summary but we get here now oh to enosh a couple of other things you should be sensitive there are four hebrew words for man in the scripture very commonly used first one is adam ish gibber and enosh adam speaks of his origin made from the dust of adama the ground ish used for man is man in the sense of his sex male as opposed to female gerber is used of of strength a mighty man enosh is a word used for man over 500 times in the scripture it always means infirmities if it's used physical sense it implies mortality if it's used in a character sense the word it means incurable so that feeling for the four words of for man when you speak of his name was enosh if you have a linguistic background you recognize right away that's a tip-off that enosh is a loser and it's in his days that men began to call or that is profane i should say the name of the lord and when you understand that that gives rise then to the raising of a prophet and that's what enoch is all about incidentally enosh is the third from adam he's adam's grandson right adam seth enosh right it's interesting that the third from moses moses grandson was jonathan the first idolatrous priest in israel no big deal but it's interesting that these patterns seem to be there now one small point that i can't resist pointing out when we were talking about the angels that sinned because in genesis 6 you know the binay elohim entered into the daughters of men one of the theories that we attempted to dispute at the time was this idea that the line of seth which are the good guys in the line of you know that they intermarried and all that that's a common but erroneous idea if the line of seth is so good let's take a look at his first son that was enosh see that whole theory is based on a misunderstanding of verse 26. but again that was that it was a previous lesson we will move on we have then some genealogies here which i'll just skip over and we'll pick this up about verse oh 21 genesis 5 verse 21 and enoch lived 60 it goes through the whole genealogy we're skipping over that but then i guess the first two and enoch lived uh 65 years and begot methuselah and enoch walked with god after he begot methuselah 300 years and we got sons and daughters and all the days of enoch were 365 years and enoch walked with god and he was not for god took him simple little phrase it causes all his wonderment what on earth is this all about by the way as you recall i gave your assignment last time in the form of a trivia riddle you know methuselah is the oldest man in the bible yet he died before his father and that's a great you know dinner table conversation thing to have people once you realize enoch most people don't realize that enoch was methuselah's father what you know it's enoch was his father that's right enoch didn't die that's great and by the way this is it for enoch in genesis 5 what we just read we have a commentary on it but keep your finger here because we'll come back but hebrews chapter 11 you all know the great faith chapter of the scripture the hall of faith hebrews 11. we've been in it before and we're going to pick up verse 5 of hebrews 11. in this chronicle the summary of all the great faithful enoch gets his place there and in hebrews chapter 11 verse 5 it reads by faith enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found because god had translated him for before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased god boy would you like to have that testimony i mean what else would you want i mean in terms of you want to aspire to something that you please god verse 6 explains what what's required for without faith it is impossible to please him for he that cometh to god must a believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him very important verse verse six worth memorizing but verse five summarize what we've just read in genesis we didn't misread it there's a translation problem the writer to hebrews amplifies the fact that this what this says is that enoch did not die he was translated now if you were translating from the english to the english from the latin you might use the word rapturo that's the latin from which we get this concept of the rapture you all hear the word rapture it doesn't appear in the bible it appears in the it's a corruption of the vulgate translating first thessalonians etc speaking of the we'll be caught up together and so forth speaking of the rapture of the church that word rapture comes from the it means to be caught up it comes from the latin rapturo but the same idea is there he didn't see death he was he was translated now there are two people to whom that happens and enoch is one of them and elijah is the other one we spoke about him before it's interesting that enoch is translated about midway between adam and abraham elijah was translated about midway between abraham and christ i know what you're going to do with that piece of information but i just there's also a i'd love to throw this one out there's also a difference between elijah elijah was jewish enoch was not and we'll come back to what that might mean in a little a little bit okay now one thing before we leave this idea enoch walked with god we hear that expressed that was not a casual stroll it shows up in verse 22 enoch walked with god and it shows up in verse 24. and if you've done your arithmetic there are 300 years between verse 22 and verse 24. now that's a walk you know it's easy to die for christ but are you willing to live for him that's a lot tougher enoch walked with a god for over 300 years and that involved several things it involved agreement amos 3 3 says how can two walk together if they're not in agreement scripture tells that when abram took isaac up the hill as an offering they walked in agreement that concept emerges in the hebrew so they walked in agreement there was a concept of surrender and what it leads to is a witness because enoch's words testify even today in fact that's what we're doing in jude 14. now the thought that i'd leave you with in the margin of your notes is this idea of walking is available to you today maybe we should take the time to do this let's turn to colossians chapter 2 verse 6. do you not walk with god right well colossians 2 6 says as ye have therefore received christ jesus the lord so walk ye in him and i submit to you that your walk can avail itself probably of resources that may not have been available to enoch if you take a look at galatians 5 25 again we talk about walking if we live in the spirit let us also walk in the spirit and second corinthians 5 7 uses the same phrase about walking in faith so i'll leave you with that as your challenge tonight and we'll keep moving on but there's another aspect about enoch's prophecy and that the words that you hear jude quote were not enoch's first prophecy now if you've been paying attention you're going to wonder how on earth chuck do you come up with that one we're not even so comfortable that enoch spoke those words that jude said i mean that's sort of maybe a new thought those are the only words we've got from enoch and yet i'm telling you those are not his first prophetic utterance in fact his most interesting prophetic utterance was the name of his son apparently to put the whole thing together for you rather than tease you along enoch had a revelation had a son and then walked with god the result of which was his prophecy now how do you put all that together enoch's son his name is methuselah he turns out to be noah's grandfather now you'll read many commentaries that speculate about what methuselah means but let me express to you what it really means the root moth means to die it occurs over a hundred times in the old testament and it occurs eight times right here in genesis 5 that hebrew word the root word the root the word shellac means to send forth it is used over 60 times in the old testament and it always sends forth judgment on the earth the plagues of egypt famine fire the pestilence by the of the prophets that sort of thing shallock is descend forth but in the sense of sending forth judgment and math shellac is the roots that make up the word methuselah now in those days by the way names tended to have meaning eve meant the life giver mother of all living remember genesis and by the way the mother of all living doesn't mean that all their descendants came from her that's your first thought but you we see the way adam names here it's actually in response to the promise of the christ by the way cain means acquired seth means appointed abraham means the father of many nations enoch means teaching initiation or commencement okay well methuselah means when he dies it shall be sent when he dies it shall be sent now i'm going to lean on tradition not the scripture we know if you go oh by the way one of the things you should do is lay out in this little chart that i suggested when you'll make a little chart and figure out when they were born and when they died and when they gave birth all this if you lay that all out you'll discover that methuselah the year that methuselah dies what do you think happens the flood came you bet now jewish tradition says that he died seven days before the flood not just jewish tradition how long was noah in the ark seven days before the flood came and that may be why the jewish those things may link so that doesn't prove anything but i just share with you what it's worth so interesting situation visualize enoch now who had a obviously a vision he didn't make that up he named it in response to a revelation that god gave him can you imagine bringing up that kid every time he caught a cold [Music] can you imagine the apprehension as long as he's alive it's okay now i assume that this insight would be confined to a small in group because the rest of the world probably thought the you know this family was nuts but it's interesting that methuselah thus becomes as he lives he becomes levitically speaking or idiomatically speaking a model of grace because as long as he is alive god is sparing his judgment or mercy right that's why it's not accidental that his lifetime is deemed by the holy spirit to be the longest lifetime in the bible methuselah of 969 years the longest lifetime because there's there is you know god's grace abounds where sin is abound grace will even more abound and um but there it but it also is finite there's a time at which you know that the the plug is pulled yeah bad metaphor isn't here okay so enoch walked with god we hear those phrases he says he had walked with god uh after he begot methuselah so something happened prior to methuselah donut was just before or long before when methuselah's born enoch apparently names him in response to a revelation and it's after his methuselah's birth that enoch walks with god and it's 300 years go by enoch finally dies he gave birth at 65 to eat methuselah and he lives to 365. so for those 300 years enoch walked with god and he's translated i have a question for your notepad to ponder on your way driving home tonight is your incentive any different than enoch's the revelation that enoch had is it any less than the revelation you have you've got the whole thing so i'll leave you with that okay methuselah becomes the oldest man in the bible god is and the verse that you might offset that with is second peter 3 8 9 that god is not willing that any should perish okay now we're going to get into enoch's prophecy specifically as quoted by jude and we're going to learn fourth by the way it's interesting that the prophecy is of the lord's second coming that's first we're not dealing in in enoch's prophecy with the cross directly the suffering servant the and all of that we're talking about his second coming as we call it and we'll learn four things we know the lord's coming is sure we know who will accompany him we know the purpose of his coming and we know the result of his coming all us out of jude's jude's quoting of enoch's prophecy you not also the seventh from adam prophesied of these saying behold the lord cometh with his holy myriads that's what it says i'd like to say saints but that's not what a baby says with his holy myriads the first thing is we let me get ahead of myself we know the lord's coming is sure and the reason we do is because it's this prophecy is expressed in the past tense we see that all the time the book of revelation john describes these wild things in the past tense or present perfect it's done i mean it's behind the idiom that the lord uses the holy spirit uses is to write it as history yes it's history written in advance but it has something very similar to history and that is you can't change it you can't change the civil war the declaration that's past it's history these prophecies are written the same way these aren't contingent hey you guys if you do this i'll do this this isn't this isn't the preaching of jonah to nineveh 40 days and comes destruction and of course nineveh repents and join the pounce because he didn't want to repent this is not a conditional thing it is a certainty and this shows up in the in the linguistic structure of it nothing can change it and philippians 3 21 highlights this he's able to subdue all things to himself and that's what's going on here so that's adam wayne we're not sure the next thing is who's going to accompany him we have a lot of confusion about that if you quote jude saying gee the jude says that when the lord comes he comes with ten thousands ten thousand of his saints you're on shaky ground because what it really says is that he will come with his holy myriads myriads that's a bunch okay now we will find passages i won't take the time right now but zechariah 14 5 revelation 19 14 and daniel 7 10 says the same thing his myriads now moses describes ten thousands of his holy ones in deuteronomy 33 2 and we know from acts 7 53 and galatians 3 19 that those references include angels so when we know that he's coming with myriads of something and we know for sure that they include his holy angels and also matthew 25 31 describes christ returning with all the holy angels so zechariah revelation daniel deuteronomy galatians acts 7 matthew 25 they all demonstrate that when he returns he's coming with a bunch of angels however colossians 3 4 and first thessalonians 3 13 are the two main authorities which point out that we're with we're with him so it's going to be quite a group you might want to look at that just a colossians chapter 3 verse when christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory and first thessalonians 3 13 to the end that he may establish your heart's unblameable and holiness before god even our father at the coming of our lord jesus christ with all his saints first thessalonians 3 13. now we rank above the angels if you recall first corinthians six two and three we shall judge and only not you will judge angels so you can run with that so we know who's coming the lots of angels and the saints together both now the next thing is what's the purpose of his coming it's interesting that the first and the last prophecy given through man focuses on the second coming in judgment the first prophecy by enoch in the last prophecy in the book of revelation 22 20 focuses on the second coming coming in judgment he will come to bring judgment the word in the greek is crisis now turn to hebrews 9 26-28 hebrews 9 starting at verse 26 for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world but now once in the end of the ages hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself as it is appointed unto men once to die but after this the judgment so christ was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation coming to bring point under man once die and after this the crisis in the greek now that word crisis is used of sodom in luke 10 14. we all know what happened to sodom and gomorrah that's crisis hebrews 10 27 a certain fearful looking for crisis and ii peter 3 7 speaks the day of crisis of ungodly men so the point i want to get the use of that word is the judgment of the unsaved okay now why am i making a big thing of this i'd like to turn to john 5. up till now we've been talking about the word crisis meaning this kind of judgment right john chapter 5 jesus says verily verily i say it you know when the lord wanted to emphasize something he said i say unto you when you want to double underline it he'd say verily i say unto you this one he says verily verily i say unto you he that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me half everlasting life doesn't say you're going to get it isn't awarded to you after death at the pearly gates you have it now half everlasting life and shall not come into crisis into judgment but the he the greek word is crisis but it's passed from death unto life okay so the believer no believer will ever come into crisis lots of authorities i'll use john 5 24 specifically are we together so far now you say wait a minute chuck there's romans 14 and second corinthians 5 where the where the believers before the judgment seat of christ right different word that's the bema seat of christ the bema seat the judgment seat the crisis i think we've got a flavor for the bema seat was that judges seat at the end of a race that passes out the rewards in the greeks a different word it's a judgment seat like you go up to get your silver bronze gold medal whatever in the olympic idiom if i may the word in the greek the bema seat is a term that i i believe comes out of the athletic community it's getting rewards for your deeds and when in romans 14 10 and 2nd corinthians 5 10 and so on the word there is the bema seat different deal in the english it both say judgment different kind of judgment it's an unfortunate term because we lump them together now why am i making a big thing of this for two reasons because of john 5 24 which is a compulsory required memory verse there will be a quiz but also because you need to know that as a believer you do not come into crisis in the book of enoch the apocryphal book it quotes enoch as saying that he comes with myriads of his saints to execute judgment on them if you understand the scripture you know that's not true it's fraud it's false the book of enoch was written by a false prophet that's not what enoch prophesied because god is not going to contradict himself so it's a simple i love these things because they save you acres of paperwork in a library wandering through the apocrypha and i've shared with you i'm so endeared to john for chapter 12. where he points out that isaiah 6 and isaiah 53 were written by the same isaiah you have any idea the money i spent on commentaries and the derailment of my my christian walk on the deutero isaiah thing i could have saved years of my life and a lot of agony if i just read john 12 carefully you don't have to worry about 2i there were no two isaiahs that's yes i kind of think word i can use here in the balderdash is probably a little more polite than what i was thinking of yes thank you vocabulary is so important okay now who's going to be judged it says all right it says they're all going to be judged okay we know he cometh to judge the earth that's from psalm 96 verse 13. we know he comes to judge all nations that's joel 3 verse 12 and matthew 25 32. he comes to judge all the nations with their cities that's matthew 11 22 and matthew 12 41. i'm not looking these up because i think this is familiar ground if not it ought to be um he comes to judge every man living or dead second timothy 4 1 and 2nd thessalonians 1 verses 7 8-9 he comes to judge the fallen angels we're not unfamiliar with that because we just studied it but the authority is isaiah 24 21 and he also comes to judge the demons matthew 8 29. so you can build a list it just concludes about everything it expressly includes about everything you can think of now the next question is who's going to be the judge who is going to be the judge well back to john 5 verse 22 a couple of verses before the one i had you memorize all right yeah for the father judgeth no man really but hath committed all judgment unto the son so the lord jesus christ is the has that burden what's he going to judge them by how are they judged let's turn to romans 2 truth deeds and my gospel will be the summary of this romans chapter 2 verse 2 but we are sure that the judgment of god is according to truth against them and commit such things and it goes on to elaborate on this and gets down to verse six who will render to every man according to his deeds you want to be judged by works you'll get your chance exactly no thank you is right on down to verse 16 in the day when god shall judge the secrets of men by jesus christ according to my gospel by the way verses 7 through 15 is a parenthetical remark so if you have trouble with paul it's one of the reasons he he really he does it now what's the result of the lord's coming all the ungodly will be convicted of all their works of ungodliness you know that's that's where you know even even in the english it seems kind of you know jude is hammering away he's putting a lot of nails into this coffin he's saying to execute judgment upon all and to convict all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed of all their hard speeches which the ungodly sinners have spoken against him we could concatenate a whole bunch of the judgment passages here matthew 25 where the lord says depart from me he cursed it into everlasting fire revelation 20 where the books are open and they're all judged according to their works and in second peter 3 7 where the heavens and earth are reserved for fire those are all passages we have looked at before um which they have on and it's interesting here the ungodly are the category all of them have their ungodly deeds in which they at which they've ungodly commit the deeds and the way they did them are both ungodly what makes them ungodly is the intent god looks at the heart we all know that right how do we know that how do we know what god looks at the heart what's our authority first samuel 16 7. always intrigued that you have to reach to samuel to nail that one down and he's also going to judge the hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him it's interesting to me that of all the things all the ungodly deeds that this particular one is also singled out for special mention and that's consistent with the other things all the way through jude in terms of their speaking against speaking against speed railing etc big issue a big issue matthew 12 36 reminds us that every idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment boy am i glad that i'm not going to be at the judgment i cling to matthew 5 24 the idol words don't ever ask my wife she'd give you a list i have many things but that's one of the ones that i'm sure would be that i'm sure took some extra scrubbing you know every eyed word that mentions speak now the contrary to that the opposite of that so to speak what is the characteristic identity of the antichrist in scripture big mouth yeah if i wasn't going to call antichrist that isn't really a scriptural label for him i call him mr big mouth we have him in revelation 13 we have him in daniel 8 every place you see him in old and new testament he's off always uttering preposterous things against the most high he is always shooting off his mouth of all the things he must and i'm sure what he does there's a long list of of acts offensive acts that he does but it's interesting that the scripture highlights that one as idiomatic of them okay well that's that's a large part of enoch but let me uh mention some other things about enoch or at least his role in prophecy since we're all here really as students of prophecy in one way or another much is said about noah and the ark if we talk about noah's ark and i want to just summarize refresh your memory and summarize some things about noah to make some other points so just bear with me a little bit noah is called by god to build this barge with which eight people are going to be saved and i won't go and take the time out again why noah and why that eight but there's a very specific reason um in terms of having unblemished genealogy and so forth god chooses out of his grace noah found grace in the eyes of the lord so god commissions him to make to to do this barge and god has miraculously then preserved noah sons and their four wives by the way don't for a minute think that noah only had three sons we have no reason to believe he just had three sons those are memorialized because they came with them so they make this barge and as you all know the story the flood comes they're miraculously preserved through the flood and they continue man at the end of the flood now a couple of interesting things if you and i were writing the story of noah the flood comes and wipes out everything else and then the flood subsides where would you land that barge you're a god that provides every detail is ordained right so it's not going to land anywhere by accident is it wherever it lands is on purpose you and i would have a tendency you know the world's a mess they're gonna have to make a new start you'd land it somewhere where they could cannibalize the structure for housing etc they have needs right the barge is deposited on one of the highest mountains in a geologically unstable area at an altitude so high they have to migrate down to live god seems to have put the barge in a place where it was nigh impossible for them to use it take it apart make housing they had to leave it to go down to lower altitudes it's at 14 000 plus an ararat and it's and it's a lot of conditions there that make it even today with our technology difficult to get at so you wonder that can't be there by accident it's frozen most of the time it's in a place that's uniquely ready to be preserved now you go back and you read genesis 6 you discover when god tells noah to build the ark he asks him to pitch it within and without now you pitch a boat to make it watertight but you don't do it inside and outside now why would you do it inside and outside to preserve it so it's designed to be preserved it's deposited to be preserved there's a hypothesis i'm coming to and that is i personally believe i'll phrase it that way can't prove this is just one of my idiosyncratic notions that the ark's role prophetically is not over it was a testimony to an unbelieving world of a coming judgment back then and it will be again that's why it's sort of held in advance the time will come when they finally get there and they cut through the eyes and they bring back more physical they have some but if the more physical remnants of it it will be a testimony to the reality of genesis 6 the reality of noah and that whole thing and what it implies it implies all kinds of things it implies not just validity to the genesis account it says there is a god that intervenes in the lives of men that will hold them accountable and on and on all kinds of implications now there's something else about noah's ark that i'm getting at the word pitch within and without that occurs in genesis 6 occurs all throughout the scripture but it's translated pitch only in that chapter every place else that appears in the old testament it is translated atonement there is a gigantic pun here these eight people were preserved by atonement and you can get into a whole thing a typological study that the ark is a type of whom of jesus christ exactly preserving these through the judgment to become a new beginning at the end right now um again i don't take the time tonight to go through all of that but let me leave you with one interesting one the ark when it comes to rest when they leave the ark and it's all you know everything's neat the holy spirit tells us it was the 17th day of the seventh month well that's terrific what you you really have to dig to get this one put together in the book of exodus which comes obviously much much later nine plagues have gone by the tenth one's coming the death of the firstborn we have the passover and that whole that big event in fact what's regard is the birth of the nation israel and at that time he makes when the passover is instituted in the book of exodus he makes that month the first of the month so now when is passover the fourteenth of nizon which is to them the first okay which in genesis is the seventh now if jesus christ is crucified on the fourteenth of nizon what happens three days later his resurrection you tell me that god let noah leave the ark on the third day after the 14th on the anniversary thousands of years in advance of the resurrection of jesus christ absolutely it's just mind-blowing how the lord orchestrates all of this now what am i getting at well people say gee is the ark a type of the believer in a sense it is but there's also a sense i'm not saying that it isn't but there's another view that that bears some merit the ark was not removed from the judgment it was preserved through the judgment there's a difference between it in the church in first thessalonians he says i have not appointed you unto wrath but unto salvation in revelation chapter 3 verse 20 the church is promised i will keep you from the time of the tribulation not just from the tribulation from the time of the tribulation if they're removed now from that modeling many scholars believe that noah is and the ark is not a type of the church of israel being preserved through the tribulation the believing remnant then where is the church answer church is non-jewish and i'm not saying noah is but in the type he would be what is the type of the church enoch enoch was translated did not see death enoch was removed from the scene before this was played out okay now that's one example another example i'm fond of using is we all remember the famous story of the fiery furnace nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace and we had azariah hananiah and michelle i'm sorry you know babylonian names shadrach meshach and abednego right the secular world has preserved their secular names for it the nebuchadnezzar in his ragtime ban says hey when the music starts you all bow down you bow or burn right and these three guys say no thanks they don't you all know the story out of daniel chapter three to give you the context the chapter chapter two nebuchadnezzar the young man takes over his father dies he's general of the army but while he's seizing sieging jerusalem he finds out his father died he's now king of babylon so he goes back he inherits all these old-timers that are the staff the soothsayers and wise men and stuff so he has this troubled dream and he wants to find out if these guys can cut the mustard so he says hey guys i want you to interpret my dream but by the way this is the fine print is i won't tell you if tell me what the dream is and what it means and they say hey no there's no one no man on earth can do that he's just trying to put himself then he explains his professional development system he's going to cut them limb from limb and make their houses a dung hill if they don't they can't so the word goes out the order is given but that includes the whole job description daniel and his friends were in that job description they said hey why so hasty and they petitioned and get the audience with the king and as you all know this thing they daniel interprets the dream and nebuchadnezzar's blown away quite impressed and makes and rewards them now from chapter two you can get an idea how popular daniel's three friends were among the the old palace guard and the old palace guard rigged up this thing to get nebuchadnezzar on his ego trip so that whoever doesn't bow down to the music is going to get slaughtered knowing full well that these faithful jews will not do that so you all know the story they refuse and nebuchadnezzar gives them a second chance they say our god can preserve us but even if he won't uh up years old king and so they they get thrown in the fiery furnace you all know the story nebuchadnezzar builds an image what 66 cubits high six cubits wide what's nebuchadnezzar a type of the antichrist and he forces his worship at the pain of death so he's what the antichrist what are shadrach meshach and abednego a type of israel they're in the fiery furnace fire is an idiom of the tribulation in the old testament they are preserved through the fire they're not kept out of fire they're preserved in the fire no harm comes to them by whom right now because it sees them down there okay so nebuchadnezzar's the type of antichrist we have the three jewish young men in the fire furnace as a type if you will of israel preserved the remnant if you will preserve through the tribulation question where's daniel he's not there many many people read that story hear that story and see in the sunday school books never cruised to you what happened to daniel several possibilities one is that he bowed down don't think so if you know anything about daniel that's not likely was it that he bowed down and that he didn't he refused to bow down but he was not accused that's also not very likely if he was there he either bowed down which is not true or he didn't bow down he would not have refused not been accused clearly which means he wasn't there now where was he we don't know the record silent on that our guess is since he was very high official he was probably on an errand of state and his enemies use that opportunity to attack his second string that's a guess but biblically or i should say typologically speaking daniel is absent from the scene and i personally think that that's significant typologically we're getting into a typology here and that's a whole another thing the other thing that we have seen uh we explored a lot in sodom it was clear as abraham was interceding for a lot that the lord made it clear that if there's one righteous the judgment would have been spared and in fact there was one righteous namely lot despite his being out of fellowship and these two angels get lot out of there and in fact as we read the text carefully not only did they get him out as a favor to him they point out a lot that they cannot accomplish their mission until they get them out of there it's a prerequisite condition for these angels to bring the judgment on sodom and gomorrah to get a lot out of there basic principle being laid out for us there another issue i'm just throwing a bunch of stuff out because i keep getting the question after why do i think why do i believe there's a pre-trib rapture and this is there's a whole bunch of reasons that are not doctrinal proofs i'm responding to questions why do i personally see a pre-trib rapture and this these are all i'm adding up to that daniel chapter 9 the famous 70 weeks of daniel highlights clearly and it's too technical to get into tonight if you know what i'm talking about you'll follow me if not i recommend you get the tapes but in the 70 week prophecy of daniel we clearly have well there's four verses a scope first to begin with we have a period of time of 69 weeks and a period of time of seven weeks after that we have a scope verse we have a detailed description of the 69 weeks then we have a verse that describes the events that occur between the 69th and 7th week before the seventh week start and then the last verse of the 70th week the point is there is a gap 69 contiguous weeks a parenthesis and a last week that parenthesis is one of the things that's paramount to understanding the 70-week prophecy of daniel this concept of a gap may seem strange to you when you get to revelation chapter 12 verses 5 and 6 the the the woman and the man child and satan and all that again between verses 5 and 6 the same gap occurs it was interesting to me to discover that this gap occurs in psalm 22 between verses 21 and 22. it occurs in psalm 118 in the middle of verse 22. it occurs in isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 that we quote at christmas but we quote it up to but not last part which is the second coming issue we have isaiah 53 and verse 10 same thing in isaiah chapter 61 we have two verses the same gap occurs and none other than our lord and savior jesus christ in luke 4 when reading that in his minutes opening his ministry he reads from isaiah 61 and he stops at a comma closes the book sets it down and says this day is that prophecy fulfilled in your ears now that comma has lasted 1900 years we can go on lamentations chapter 4 verse 21 22. i mentioned daniel 9 26 and 27. i have to write these down but i'll just go through this do you follow where i'm headed daniel 11 it occurs hosea 2 hosea 3 amos 9 micah 5. habakkuk 2 zephaniah 3 zechariah 9 matthew 10 matthew 12. luke 1 luke 4 as i just mentioned luke 21 the middle is verse 24 john 1 verses 5 and 6. first peter 1 and revelation 12. now why did i go through this list there are 24 of them and if you're a mystic like i am i think that's very very interesting relative to the 24 elders in revelation as a kabbalistic allusion to what i believe is the church it's interesting to me that in all of those gods dispensation if you will or dealing with israel and is dealing with the church are mutually exclusive you can get a whole study of the gospels and it's when israel rejects her messiah the positioning of the church is established and the whole age of grace as this dispensation is like to call this period that we live in from that time and i won't quarrel for the moment exactly when it starts that's a whole other issue up until the rapture is clearly a parenthesis in which god's focus is the gentiles in the sense of the church now are all believers in the church no they're believers prior they're believers in the old testament are they part of the church no they're believers are there believers in the new testament prior to the church sure the the apostles were sent to israel two by two specific missions set up there if you can get technical gospels you study that very carefully and yet there is an era that we enjoy we take it all for granted very peculiar things are bound to us that were not true then and uh they're just unique to us so uh that's the church now there will be a time when that's over god will accomplish his purpose and when that is completed he will again choose to deal through to the world through israel not because they deserve it just because he chooses to do that when you understand that you see the prophecy you'll discover clearly the prophecies are focusing on one or the other and the the insight to unraveling the whole book of revelation is to recognize its jewishness chapters 4 to the end are jewish israel 144 000 et cetera goes to great lengths to make that clear there's a parenthesis in there of 7 churches that are a different issue this is all a springboard from enoch if you will the two witnesses issue of enoch and elijah i mentioned that before that i personally there's my own crazy notion that i think the two witnesses in revelation 11 are moses and elijah because they're both jewish you're not question if you're really mystical you know about ruth and boaz naomi is israel in book of ruth boaz is the kinsmen redeemer ruth is the gentile bride where is ruth during the thrashing floor scene at boaz's feet and if you really get into the typology and really want to go out in left field that's a possibility and of course there are two models at least in the old testament of the rapture one of them my wife pointed out to me originally which is in isaiah 26. i have to digress on prophecy because i don't want to be on apostates all evening long see um okay what's fun to do just before the reading this is to read first thessalonians 4 about the dead in christ shall rise first and all this and then you come to isaiah chapter 26 and read verse 19 where isaiah says thy dead men shall live together with my dead body shall they arise here's that resurrection concept awaken sing ye that dwell in the dust for thy do is like the dew of herbs and the earth shall cast out the dead then we get to verse 20. come interesting word that's introduces revelation chapter four verse one it's also the word that introduces each of the seals etcetera come and see the nc is not in the in the hebrew in the original that's in english come here it says come my people enter thou into thy chambers what chambers in my father's house are many mansions if we're not so i would have told you i go to prepare a place for you what's he going to prepare chambers and shut thy doors about thee hide thyself as it were for a little moment for how long until the indignation is passed this favored group of people whoever they are are going to be spared they're hidden in chambers until the indignation is passed uh i can almost historically imagine being in the home in israel during in egypt we put the blood on the lintel to lock the door and waited for the death agent to pass by same psychology as i would mentally visualize this verse 21 for behold the lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity the earth shall also disclose their blood and shall no more cover her slain interesting passage in the book of isaiah i personally believe this is uh elusive of the the rapture and then i've got zephaniah chapter 2 verse 3 here that might be fun to take a quick peek at zephaniah chapter 2 verse 3 seek the lord all unique of the earth who have kept his ordinances seek righteousness seek meekness why it may be ye shall be hidden in the day of the lord's anger is that interesting you know the old testament prophets are just full of these little nuggets that that chuck showed me one today unrelated but i have to show he shared he shared this with me today and i just i have to share it with you it blew me away amos amos chapter 8 verse 9 and 10. amos says in chapter 8 verse 9 it says it shall come to pass in that day saith the lord god that i will cause the sun to go down at noon and i will darken the earth in the clear day how often we call the organization's going to go dark we always allude to this but then we read the next verse and i will turn your feasts in the morning and all your songs into lamentation i will bring up sackcloth upon all loins and baldness upon every head and i will make it like the morning for an only sun and the end of it like a bitter day what's he talking about crucifixion when did the sun go down at noon when christ was crucified and there's mourning for what and only son in that wild never saw that before chuck shared that with me how interesting anyway yeah we can make it i've been darling here let's get back to jude chapter one i mean okay we've got verse 16 continuing the thought about these guys that judah's talking about that enoch prophesied against prophesied of these saying behold and so on who are these verse 16 amplifies this these are murmurers complainers walking after their own lusts and their mouth speaketh great swelling words having men's persons in admiration because of advantage this is how you recognize an apostate and by the way the church will be without excuse if it fails to recognize the apostates because of the epistle of jude we looked at verse 8 verse 10 verse 12 and 13 so far those are descriptive now we get another one verse 16 they're murmurs complainers and walking after their own lusts now these are idiomatically reflexive on the things we've just read because the murmurs remember the people of israel back in verse 5 and the complainers remember the angels dissatisfaction with their assigned place and they're walking after their own lusts sodom and gomorrah see those same things he used to open the epistle are here summarized in practical everyday terms for you and i murmuring complaining and walking after their own lusts murmurers do you know this as a noun as found nowhere else in the new testament the verb is but not as a noun in john chapter 6 41 the jews murmured at jesus christ when he spoke of being the bread of life the disciples murmured in john 6 and also in ephesians 2 are mentioned disciples murmured and then they walked no more with him those that did murmuring is a sin of no minor importance it is a hallmark of apostasy we find that in psalm 106 verses 24 25 and 26 in first corinthians 10 which we looked at earlier murmurs okay that's one group they murmured anyone want a murmur read this carefully before you do next one complainers this as a noun appears nowhere else in the new testament only in jude the pharisees found fault they held their traditions higher that's in mark 7 okay making the word of god of no effect because of traditions is a form of apostasy wherever it is found now fault finding may mark a professing christian as one who has turned his back upon the truth complainers may be apostates we saw that in verse eight and tenets by way of review it's amplified in second corinthians 11 and first corinthians 5. complainers displeased the lord in the days of moses we looked at that in numbers 11 if you recall it also displeased the lord in mark 7 when the disciples were doing it is there any reason to believe it doesn't displease him today displeased him in the days of moses displeased him in the days of our lord in mark 7. in the book of jude there's one group of people that were dissatisfied with their assigned place and we saw what happened to them they were the angels in verse six chained their work kept under the day of salvation they were kept under the day of judgment and paul contrasts that with he's he's learned to be satisfied whatever state he finds himself in in philippians 4 11. okay we've got murmurs complainers walking after their own lusts it says and we've talked about that before this is the same word the lord uses in the parable of the sower by the way in mark 4 verse 18 and 19 and we've read ii peter 3 about the scoffers walking after their own lusts since the end times so we've got murmurs complainers and the lusting occurring in numbers 14 11 and also numbers 11 the history of israel this is all by way of review that's why i'm going this rather quickly now again we have it's interesting we have the murmurs complainers walking after their own lusts and again we have singled out this other attribute their mouth speaketh great swelling words that strange who does that typify the antichrist their mouth speaking great swelling words just to show you what this leaps out at me if you look at ii peter 2 2 peter 2 15 for when they speak great swelling words of vanity they allure through the lust of the flesh much wantonness of those that are just escaping from them the whole passage from 15 through 21 deals with this great swelling words thing and we've talked about the identifier of the last leader on the face of the earth second thessalonians chapter 2 which speaks of the antichrist revelation 13 verses 5 and 6. basic hallmarks of this i'll resist the temptation to get in the second thessalonians two tonight or revelation 13 verses 5 and 6 you've been there we've been through that a lot and we'll be getting into it again in other studies so i'll pass that for now but i'd like to focus on something else here in jude it mentions these gross sins and then focuses on their mouth which speak with great swelling words and then it has another thing having men's persons in admiration because of advantage what a subtle thing you think from all these heinous sins the fact that they're overly impressed the pride thing seems so small but what he's talking about is apostasy in the church and one of its warning signs is when professionalism replaces the call of the holy spirit how often we see advertisements flowery introductions of some great person that may be appropriate in the secular world it's highly inappropriate in the church by the way i'm reading a book i just read a book that i have to commend to you if you have not picked up a copy of harvest you need to pick it up and read it i think as a christian walk in modern times it gives you an incredible contrast with the traditional ways versus the lord's ways as participants in this particular body it's must reading because it's just incredible summary a quick digest of over 30 years of ministerial insight what works what doesn't and why most precious precious book anything to do with the harvest that um chronicles the the origin and what's happened at calvary chapel over the last couple of decades incredible summary very readable very anecdotal but right to where the rubber meets the road terrific terrific thing very much in contrast with the passages that we've just just read now versus the next block is verses 17 through 19 which is the upbeat i think what we're going to do next time is finish the book of jude because we'll take it from verse 17 through the end and we will get very specific some more a few more warnings some very specific encouragement and directions unlike the passages up until now which reach deeply into the old testament so i've always sort of with my tongue in my cheek i've assigned you homework for next time in this case i don't have a specific passage for homework next time but i will commend to you another book i'm going to commend to you two books tonight the book harvest i've just mentioned that's sort of underscore that's must reading that's you know if you don't read that you've missed the assigned reading i'll give you an optional book that may not be for everybody but it's if you have a intellectual turn of mind if you have a interest in sharpening your perceptions of intellectual life in america there is a book that is heralded by many to become the book of the decade called the closing of the american mind by alan bloom it's not a theological book it's not a christian book it's a book though that is incredibly perceptive in a secular sense very lucid very articulate very profound in explaining the tragedy of the last several decades of education in america and what it means to you and i allen bloom the closing of the american mind what the reason i bring it up is that here is a brilliant secular professor with incredibly distinguished career in history with a deep passion for his students university of chicago and half a dozen other major universities total over the world very bright well established person great credentials who has come to the conclusion that relativism is bankrupt that our value system in america is non-existent i'm not uh suggesting you agree with everything he says i'm not sure i'm sure you won't agree with his his implied remedy but it's a profound insight into our culture our music our attitudes our values it's a scathing indictment of higher education over the last 30 years in america and what is what the result has been if you're of that turn of mind i commend to you uh that book you will you you probably have and you will hear much said about it but next time we'll pick up verse 17 and finish the book of jude and we'll also announce where we're going from there next time okay let's stand for a closing word of prayer father we just praise you for the privilege of hearing your word we thank you father for this epistle of jude we thank you that you have provided here some gleanings of the past some perspective of what's coming we thank you father you've cared so much as to instruct us that we might grow in grace and in the knowledge of our lord and savior that we might through all these things walk with you father we would just ask you to increase in us an appetite for all these things increasing us a hunger for your word and a clearer perception of the surrender and the commitment that a walk with you implies indeed demands and father we also thank you for the prophecy of enoch that indeed the coming of our lord is sure unequivocal unconditional it is coming we thank you father you have through your grace called us and sanctified us in jesus christ in whose name we pray amen [Music] you

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