Judah, a slave of Anointed Jesus but Jacob's brother
To those who are beloved in Father God; that is, called ones, preserved by Anointed Jesus.
May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.
Beloved, in making all haste to write to you about our common salvation, I had a necessity
to write to you, advising you to agonize for the trust that was delivered over to the holy
ones once. For certain people have secretly crept in, who from ancient times were previously
written about for this judgment: impious people, changing God's generosity into debauchery,
and denying the only Sovereign and denying Anointed Jesus our Lord.
But I wish to remind you--you knew all these things: that Yahweh once saved a people from the land of Egypt and secondly destroyed those who did not trust. And those messengers who did not keep their beginning but who left behind their own habitation have been kept for a great day's judgment, with age-lasting chains, under thick darkness: like Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them. In a way similar to these people, they sinned sexually and went away, following behind another's flesh. They were laid out as a public spectacle, undergoing the justice of eternal fire.
Similarly indeed, these dreamers are also polluting the flesh. Now they despise lordships; they speak evil of glorious beings. But Michael the chief messenger, when discerning with the Accuser, discussed Moses' body. He did not dare to pass a judgment of evil speaking on him! But he said, "May Yahweh censure you."
But these people indeed speak evil of as many things as they do not know, but what they are familiar with naturally as irrational living animals. They are corrupted in these things.
Woe to them, because they are going by Kain's path and have poured themselves out into the reward of Balaam's straying, and they have destroyed themselves with Korah's contradiction.
These people are the ones who are spots among your love feasts, feasting together with you fearlessly, feeding themselves, waterless clouds that are carried along by winds, fruitless trees of autumn that have died twice and been uprooted, wild sea waves th at foam out their shame, wandering stars. For them the gloom of the darkness has been kept for an age.
Now also, Henoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these people, saying, "Look, Yahweh came with tens of thousands of his holy ones to make judgment against all people and to reprove every soul about all of their impious deeds, in which they were impious, and about all of the hard things, which the impious sinners spoke against him."
These people are grumblers, complainers, going according to their strong desires. And their mouths speak arrogant things, wondering at faces for the sake of financial profit.
But beloved, you remember those declarations that were said before by the envoys of our Lord, Anointed Jesus. Remember that they told you that, "At the last time, there will be mockers who go according to their strong desires for impious things." These are the ones who mark out boundaries--they are animal, having no spirits.
But beloved, construct yourselves on your holiest trust, pray with holy breath, and keep yourselves in God's love, expecting the mercy of our Lord, Anointed Jesus, to the point of eternal life.
Indeed, snatch them out of fire. But, discerning, have mercy with fear, hating even the garment that has been spotted by the flesh.
Now to the one who is able to establish as spotless, blameless, and making pure in the presence of his glory, to our only God, to him be glory, might, honor, through Anointed Jesus our Lord. To him be glory and majesty both now and for all the ages. A-mein.
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