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Jude devoted his entire epistle exclusively to confronting those who had defected from the true biblical faith and the false teachers who had led them astray. Revealing the character of these godless men who changed the grace of God into a license for immorality, Jude calls the church to discernment. He also encourages believers to persevere in their faith with prayer and the knowledge that the...

that these decrees are as certain and definite as if they had been written down in a book. These men’s condemnation was said to be written about long ago to show that although they crept in unawares into the church, they were not unknown to God. They came to his notice before they infiltrated any church with their evil. It is also said that they were written down in God’s book for judgment: whose condemnation was written about long ago. The meaning of this section of the verse is that these people
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