12.09.2015 New Testament: Jude 12–13

To read the Bible in a year, read Jude on December 9, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

After Jude compared false teachers in the church to false teachers and other trouble-makers in ancient history, he then depicted false teachers as useless with these words,

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 12–13). 

They are spots at love feasts, self-serving, clouds without water, easily blown from one position to another, trees without fruit, shameful, reserved for darkness. Be sure, therefore, only to listen to teachers who give you the pure word.