Jud 1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Jud 1:6 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.
Jud 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Jud 1:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
God's pure goodness demands that evil be destroyed. Allowing evil to exist, allowing suffering to continue would be cruel. Only a sadist enjoys given pain to others and God is not a sadist. Enjoying evil and pain is wrong. God does not enjoy evil, it is an aberration.
We know that free choice brings with it the ability to choose between things and allowing freedom of choice is the revelation of one not wishing to dominate, not wishing to subdue, not wishing to be a master to forced slaves, but rather a father to children, a teacher to pupils.
Angels were created beings not of flesh but of spirit.
Angels were created with the ability to choose.
Angels were created with the ability to love, with the ability to reason, with feelings.
Angels could keep their first estate, or they could leave it. They could keep their own habitation or leave it. Some of the angels chose NOT to keep their first estate and left. Some chose to leave their own habitation. When they did that it was completely unacceptable- it was a wrong action.
First Estate, habitation- When you leave your first estate, when you leave your habitation you are effectively leaving a way of life. You are leaving more than a location. A rich man leaving his riches behind to live the life of a poor- begins to live an entire new way of life. When you leave one country to go to another you have new laws to follow. It isn't like leaving one house for another of similar conditions. There weren't two first estates to hop back and forth between. Choosing to leave a habitation that held God and all that God represents was choosing to leave all that is good, all that is love.
Jud 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
The people crept in UNAWARE- UNGODLY men.
Jud 1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Jud 1:6 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.
Jud 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Jud 1:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Those who even NOW, in our day, live in a manner like those of Sodom and Gomorrha will be PUNISHED. These people exist and it's not hard to notice them, not today, not in a world where all you have to do is watch the news, look on an internet news site , read a newspaper, listen to news radio and you will hear all about the people who exist today that are likened to those living in Sodom and Gomorrha.
These filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, speak evil of dignitaries and more….
Yes, I'm going to continue to talk about this kind of stuff right now because the Bible talks of this and warns us and we need to heed the warnings not hide behind a heavy blanket of love and sweetness refusing to believe there is love in the warnings, love in leaving the soft, sweetness and recognizing God's love in so much more.
May God continue to bless us, to forgive us, to love us as we continue to study, to pray for the Holy Spirit's guidance into all truth.
In our Savior's love, by His mercy, through His righteousness and grace.
More tomorrow, God willing.
Amen.
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