Jude: Insight.

Jude focuses heavily on the importance of the end times and our need to persevere until then. As expected a reliance on Old Testament events was expected. Jude 1:5-7 recounts, “Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.” Reading this passage gave me a rare reminder of God’s intense, great power. Honestly, for me, this truth can sometimes get lost in all the lofty messages of hope and love that are present in the New Testament.