November 10, 2023: Jude 6 - Let Us Not Fall Away from our Faith in Jesus
“And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.” - Jude 6
As Jude wrote previously in verse 5, he wants us to remember certain things, certain times in the Bible when God has judged not only people for their unbelief but here in this verse, He also has bound the angels in darkness and will judge them because they “kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation.” The apostle Peter also wrote of this:
“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; and spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly…” (2 Peter 2:4-5)
Before we examine what caused God to reserve them in everlasting chains, let us read the words of Paul that he wrote in Ephesians 6, where he describes what we as believers in Jesus Christ wrestle with:
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places, Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” (Ephesians 6:10-13)
Have you noticed how dark the world is getting? Years ago, I noticed how dark the movies were getting, even in children’s movies, and now I would say especially in children’s movies because Satan wants to steal their souls. Have you noticed the predominant themes of darkness and the colors of red and black at globalists’ events, Hollywood awards shows, and NFL half-time shows and other sporting events? Have you sensed a change in people recently, where it is not a change for good but for evil? It is not your imagination, it is real. There is a darkness at work in our world, and it has been since the beginning of time. It is empowered by Satan and all of his fallen angels who chose to follow him and to leave God. These are the ones the apostle Paul wrote about in Ephesians 6. These are the ones who cause people to doubt God’s word, who lead people into temptation, and who wage spiritual war against us. When people do not know nor believe in God’s word, rather than fleeing from whatever they are being tempted with, they are drawn to it, just as Eve was drawn to the fruit in the Garden, and they give in to it.
In the Ephesians Scripture above, it speaks of an authority of this darkness, with principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places. Just as any military has its ranks of authority, so does the devil has his own ranks of authority, all of whom take orders from him. I believe this includes the fallen angels and also human beings who have rejected God and have chosen to follow the devil, Satan. Satan uses them too in order to try and accomplish his evil plan for this world, but he and they will not succeed: God wins.
The whole point of the book of Jude is that he was warning his brothers and sisters in Christ that this same darkness had infiltrated the church by men who pretended to be of God but who were followers of Satan. Later in the book, Jude tells his readers, that in the last time, that is the days of the world before the return of Jesus Christ, these same types of ungodly men will creep into the churches and preach whatever their ungodly congregations want to hear because the pastors care more about money than peoples’ souls. The congregations will keep going and listening to these false pastors and teachers because they want to be made comfortable in their sin rather than being told they need to turn away from it to prevent their fall. Jude also tells us there will be people who do not walk in the Holy Spirit but who walk according to their own ungodly lusts and will mock those who are true followers of Christ. (Jude 17-19). Oh, how we are seeing this happen to do in many churches all around the world!
Jude also reminds us that it’s not just men - humanity - whom God destroyed for their unbelief and their wickedness, but God also has bound in darkness the fallen angels and will judge them in the great day. What was it about these fallen angels? Many people believe this is speaking about what is written in the book of Genesis chapter 6:
“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” (Genesis 6:1-13)
Many people believe that the “sons of God” mentioned in the Scripture above are the ones Jude was referencing when he wrote, “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation,” and that God has reserved them in everlasting chains in darkness until they will be judged by God. However, we cannot know for sure because in Genesis 6, God doesn’t refer to them as “angels” but as “sons of God.” Whomever they were, the Bible makes the distinction between them and “the daughters of men”; notice it doesn’t say “sons of men.” Whatever they were, when they had sexual intercourse with the daughters of men, it produced a race of giants who were mighty men, and afterward, wickedness and violence filled the earth so much so that God destroyed all flesh upon the earth except for Noah and his family, a total of eight persons. Others have noted that the Bible says of Noah, “Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.” We know that no mere human being could ever be perfect because we are all sinners. The only One who walked the earth who was perfect was Jesus Christ. Some have speculated that when it says Noah was “perfect in his generations,” it means that his and his family’s DNA had not been corrupted by the sons of God when they had sexual intercourse with daughters of men. We cannot know for sure, but this is very interesting, especially now in the days in which we live when scientists are playing God and manipulating the human genome and also manipulating the DNA of animals. They are also experimenting with mixing human and animal cells to produce a chimera, such as was reported in a May 15, 2021 article from The Guardian when biologists mixed human and money cells. (See: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/15/mixed-messages-is-research-into-human-animal-hybrids-ethical-chimera)
On May 9, 2023, BBC news announced that a baby had been born by using the DNA from three people. (See: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65538866) We also have the quickly-produced mRNA injections and all of the various side effects and sudden deaths that have happened since they were injected in billions of people. We will see what the long-term effects of them are in the months and years to come.
We have gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9: (See: https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/genomicresearch/genomeediting/)
“Genome editing (also called gene editing) is a group of technologies that give scientists the ability to change an organism's DNA. These technologies allow genetic material to be added, removed, or altered at particular locations in the genome. Several approaches to genome editing have been developed. A well-known one is called CRISPR-Cas9, which is short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and CRISPR-associated protein 9.”
Add to that there are very rich and powerful people who are pushing for transhumanism, defined as: (See: https://www.britannica.com/topic/transhumanism)
“Transhumanism, philosophical and scientific movement that advocates the use of current and emerging technologies—such as genetic engineering, cryonics, artificial intelligence (AI), and nanotechnology—to augment human capabilities and improve the human condition. Transhumanists envision a future in which the responsible application of such technologies enables humans to slow, reverse, or eliminate the aging process, to achieve corresponding increases in human life spans, and to enhance human cognitive and sensory capacities. The movement proposes that humans with augmented capabilities will evolve into an enhanced species that transcends humanity—the “posthuman.””
The article referenced above further states:
“Transhumanism found further support from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, including Google cofounder Larry Page, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Tesla’s Elon Musk. In 2013 Page launched Calico Life Sciences LLC (Calico Labs), a research and development company dedicated to extending the human life span through advanced technologies. In early 2022 Bezos and other backers invested $3 billion in Altos Labs, a biotechnology company seeking to reverse aging and disease. Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 in hopes of establishing human colonies on the Moon and Mars and launched Neuralink in 2016 to develop implantable brain chips.”
How far will these technologies advance? Have we not already crossed boundaries that should never have been crossed, as was done in Noah’s day? Aren’t those who are doing this trying to replace God? Aren’t they even trying to be gods, false gods? Read the words below from an article written by Yuval Noah Harari and posted on Britannica.com on October 19, 2023 titled “Our Nonconscious Future”:
“Within the next century or two, we humans are likely to upgrade ourselves into gods and change the most basic principles of the evolution of life. Traditional mythologies depicted gods as powerful beings that could design and create life according to their wishes. In the coming two centuries we will probably learn how to engineer and manufacture various life forms according to our wishes. We will use bioengineering in order to create new kinds of organic beings; we will use direct brain-computer interfaces in order to create cyborgs (beings that combine organic and inorganic parts); and advances in machine learning and AI might even allow us to set in motion the creation of completely inorganic beings. The main products of the future economy will not be food, textiles, and vehicles but rather bodies, brains, and minds.”
Let’s revisit what the Bible tells us. In the days of Noah when the sons of God had sexual intercourse with human women, they corrupted the DNA of mankind and created a race of giants that existed upon the earth at that time. The Genesis 6 account tells us:
“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” (Genesis 6:5)
“And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” (Genesis 6:12-13)
God then sent a flood that destroyed all humans, birds, and animals that lived on the ground. I do not consider it coincidence that the Hebrew word for “violence” is “Hamas.” (See: https://biblehub.com/hebrew/chamas_2555.htm)
Genesis 6 also tells us that not only were there giants in the days before the flood but also after:
“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” (Genesis 6:4)
This agrees with the Biblical accounts of giants being mentioned after the flood, including when God, before He would deliver Israel into the Promised Land of Canaan, told Moses to send 12 men, one from each of the 12 tribes of Israel, to spy out the land. Ten of the spies were afraid of the people, the giants, whom they had seen and provided an evil report. It also agrees with David killing Goliath, who was also a giant. Using an average measurement of 18 inches per cubit and six inches per span, Goliath would have been approximately 9’6” tall.
“…The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people we saw in it are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.” (Numbers 13:32-33)
“And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.” (1 Samuel 17:4)
I have discussed all of this so that we have some background on the times of Noah when the sons of God had sexual intercourse with women and produced a race of giants, which perhaps may be the angels that did not keep their first estate that Jude wrote about in Jude 6. I included this information so that we could consider the attitudes of people on the earth at the time of Noah, how they were going about with their lives - eating, drinking, and marrying - but that the earth was filled with violence. Do we not have that same type of atmosphere in our world today? People are distracted by their phones, sports, entertainment, drugs, sex, feel-good messages that preach God wants you to be rich in treasures of this world in supposed churches, etc., all the while our societies are filled with violence. Why is that? Because as a majority, our societies - people, individuals - have rejected the One true God and have rejected the truth. All who have done this will be judged by God, just as He will judge the fallen angels. We would not have false preachers and teachers in churches today if we rejected them, if we called them out for not preaching and teaching on the true word of God. However, I would say that the majority of churches in the world have false preachers and teachers, and instead of people fleeing from them, people run to them. Why? Because they don’t want salvation from their sins by believing in Jesus Christ but they want a genie in a bottle who will grant them their every lustful desire and who will approve of them in their sins.
Before Jesus was crucified, died, resurrected, and ascended to heaven, where He now sits at the right hand of God the Father, Jesus told His disciples:
“And as it was in the days of Noe [Noah], so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.” (Luke 17:26-30)
Judgment day is coming; it cannot be stopped. Just as God held His people Israel accountable for their sins against Him after He brought them out of Egypt and just as He held accountable the angels who left their proper domain, so too will He hold each and every one of us accountable. Are we murmuring and complaining against Him even when He has provided for us? Are we walking according to our own lusts instead of obeying His commandments? Are we supporting that which is evil and ungodly in our world which is filled with violence, even in our own churches? The only cure for sin is Jesus, but like any cure, we must decide to take it, we must decide for ourselves whether or not we will put our faith and trust in Him to forgive us of all our sins. If we know the cure exists and ignore it, we will die in our sins and spend our eternity in a place called hell, forever separated from God and all that is good.
I pray that if you are not saved by Jesus, that you would turn to Him today, before it’s too late. For those of us who are saved by Jesus, may we hold onto Him like never before, never letting go, for as it was in the days of Noah and Lot, so shall it be when Jesus returns, and we know that our redemption draws oh so near.
“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.” (Jesus Christ; Luke 21:28) ✝️