Spiritual destroyers – False Pastrors, Teachers, Prophets, Apostels,etc. Part 1

This message is long overdue in my view and it is a message that must be preached and understood by all Christians. I urge you to pay attention so that you do not fall prey to these spiritual vultures!

Jude 1:3 (AMP)
For some of us that may not know, Jude is the last book before revelations. It has only 1 chapter. Jude introduces himself as the brother of James. Jude indicates in verse 3 above that he wanted to write about our common salvation but, he found it necessary and forced or compelled to urgently appeal to and strongly encourage us to fight for our faith. Something made Jude to change his mind and decide to write instead about the defense of our faith. Jude uses words like forced or compelled, urgently and strongly encourage. These words indicate something very serious and very concerning and very urgent. Now what is this thing that is concerning Jude so much? Well, let’s find out.
Jude 1:4 (AMP)
For certain men have crept in stealthily [ gaining entrance secretly by a side door]. Their doom was predicted long ago, ungodly (impious, profane) persons who pervert the grace (the spiritual blessing and favor) of our God into lawlessness and wantonness and immorality, and disown and deny our sole Master and Lord, Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

Jude says in verse 4 above that there are certain men that have crept or gained entrance quietly and unnoticed. Who are these men? We don’t know yet but Jude says their doom was predicted long ago. They are doomed already. So, what wrong with these men, well, Jude says these men
1) Are ungodly persons
2) They pervert the grace of our God into sin and unrestrained lust
3) They disown and deny our sole master and Lord, Jesus Christ
Ok, we still don’t know who these men are but we know that they are doomed and we know why they were doomed because of what they do. Simply put, these men are anti Christs and anti anything to do with Christ. Is that it? Is that what makes Jude so worried? Let’s find out.
Jude 1:5-7 (ESVST)
In the three verses above Jude is reminding us of three things, 
1) The Israelites who were destroyed after being saved from Egypt for non belief.
2) Angels mentioned in Genesis who were sent to hell for coming to earth and sleeping with women and having children with them
3) The destruction by fire of Sodom and Gomorrah for sexual immorality and unnatural desires or unnatural lust (meaning homosexuality)
Why is Jude reminding us of this? What is the significance? Let’s find out.
Jude 1:8-10 (ESVST)

Jude is saying in verse 8 above, the reason he is reminding us of these things is that, in the same way as the Israelites, the angels and the people of Sodom and Gomorrah disobeyed God, these people, these men, whom we still don’t know yet, also disobey God. They do four things
1) They rely on their dreams ( dreams also include visions, revelations, etc)
2) They defile the flesh ( this refers to sexual immorality and unnatural lust)
3) They reject authority
4) They blaspheme the glorious ones (now it is not clear what glorious ones refer to but, it is save to say that it refers to angels because of verse 9-10. 
Let’s look at these four things in more detail.
1) They rely on their dreams
 g1797. ενυπνιαζομαι enypniazomai; middle voice from 1798; to dream: — dream (- er).
 AV ( 2)- dream 1, filthy dreamer 1;
 to dream ( divinely suggested) dreams metaph., to be beguiled with sensual images and carried away to an impious course of conduct
As you can see above the word dream is a Greek word enypniazomai. This word is only used twice in the New Testament, the other times it is used is in Acts. 
Acts 2:17 (ESVST)

This word is associated with prophecies and visions that will come by the Holy Spirit. It is a very broad word that can be used to cover all these. So, back to our message, these men rely on their dreams. What does this mean? This simply means that these men claim to have had divine dreams,divine visions and/ or divine prophesies and revelations from God or form Jesus or from the Holy Spirit. These  are the people that claim to have spoken to God or have received a message from God. Once they have managed to convince everyone that indeed what they say is true,then they use the opportunity to commit sins beyond measure. These are the same people mentioned in Ezekiel and Jeremiah
Ezekiel 13:6-8 (ESVST)
Jeremiah 23:25-27 (ESVST)

As you can see these men have a very bad motive and that motive is, using their false dreams and visions, to defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. Nothing else.they just want to destroy the children of God.
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