The Testimony of Yeshua

JUDE ‘1’: From Jude, a servant of Yeshua (Jesus) Messiah, and brother of James. To those who are invited and loved by Yehovah the Father, and kept safe by Yeshua Messiah.

2 May mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance!

3 Dear Friends, while I take great pains to write to you of our common eternal Life, I need to write to you, urging you to earnestly contend for the faith that was once entrusted to the 'special ones', 4 because some have come into the assembly unnoticed, who from the beginning were prophesied to be condemned, wicked men, replacing the compassion of Yehovah with unbridled lust, and denying the only Sovereign Aloha, and our Master, Yeshua Messiah.

No End to Apostates

5 I want to remind you, tho you all know it, that Yehovah, after first rescuing the people from Egypt, later destroyed those who didn’t believe. 6 He has held the angels who disregarded their prime directive, and abandoned their assigned place with chains [Gr. ‘eternal chains’] in concealed darkness, awaiting the great Judgment Day. 7 Like Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities that in a similar way were given over to illicit sex, having committed ‘homosexual acts’ [unnatural + flesh], are lying beneath the effects of an ages old fire, and condemned to judgment.

8 In the same manner, these sensual dreamers contaminate their very flesh, despise government and blaspheme the majestic ones. 9 But Michael, the leading Messenger, while contending with the Accuser over the body of Moses, didn’t venture to bring a blasphemous accusation against him, but said, “Yehovah will rebuke you”. 10 But these people blaspheme things that they don’t even understand. They have the ‘mentality’ of animals. In all of these things they corrupt themselves.

11 Too bad for them, they’ve followed in the way of Cain, and as Balaam did, they’ve lusted for money and died, just like those in Korah’s rebellion.

12 They are the ones who wreck your ‘celebration of the Yeshua’s Supper’, feasting without reverence. They are clouds without rain, blown around by the wind; like fruit trees that fail to produce fruit, deserving death twice, and being ripped out by the roots. 13 They are raging waves of the sea, their very foaming shows their shame, wandering asteroids [Gr. aster], being reserved for the deepest darkness forever.

14 Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied of these things when he said, “Yehovah is coming with millions of His 'special ones' [saints 15 to judge all the wicked and to convict them of all the wicked things they’ve committed, including all the harsh things that those destitute of awe towards Yehovah have spoken.” 16 They are malcontents who complain about everything. They live to satisfy their cravings. They say shocking things and flatter people to make a profit.

17 Dear Friends, remember the predictions of the envoys of our Master Yeshua Messiah, 18 because they told you that in the end times there would be scoffers dedicated to satisfying their wicked cravings. 19 They are people who cause divisions, sensual people who don’t have the spirit.

20 But dear Friends, continue to renew yourselves in your 'special' faith thru the kadosh spirit while you pray. 21 Let’s remain in Yehovah’s love while we wait for the mercy of our Master Yeshua Messiah to bring our eternal Life. 22 [1] Rescue some of them from the fire. 23 And when they’ve had a change of mind, have compassion on them, with fear, hating even the clothing stained by carnality.

24 To the One who is able to keep you from stumbling and keep you unblemished, and to present you before the presence of His Majesty with great joy 25 to the only Aloha, our Life Giver, thru Yeshua Messiah our Master, be splendor and dominion and honor and grandeur, both now and in every age. Aw-main.

 

The Testimony of Yeshua was tweaked January 6, 2012