Jude 1

Jesus Christ

Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: Jude 1:1

Jude, traditionally a brother of the Lord, humbly calls himself Christ's servant and says believers are kept safe in Jesus Christ.

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Our Lord Jesus Christ

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Jude 1:4

False teachers twisted grace into an excuse for sin and so denied their Master, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Jehovah, Deliverer from Egypt

I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. Jude 1:5

The Lord who led Israel out of Egypt was Jehovah, the premortal Jesus Christ. Paul taught the same thing about the Exodus.

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• alludes to Exodus 14:30 — Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians
• interpreted by 1 Corinthians 10:4 — that Rock was Christ, who followed Israel in the wilderness

The Lord

Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. Jude 1:9

Even Michael left judgment of the devil to the Lord. The phrase repeats Jehovah's rebuke of Satan in Zechariah.

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• alludes to Zechariah 3:2 — The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan

Second Coming

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, Jude 1:14–15

Enoch prophesied that the Lord would come with multitudes of His saints to judge the ungodly, a prophecy of Christ's Second Coming.

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• the same event in Moses 7:65 — Enoch saw the day of the coming of the Son of Man in the last days
• the same event in Zechariah 14:5 — the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee
• the same event in Matthew 25:31 — the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him

Our Lord Jesus Christ

But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; Jude 1:17

Jude points readers to the warnings of the Lord Jesus Christ's apostles.

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Mercy of Christ

Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. Jude 1:21

The faithful wait with hope for the mercy of Jesus Christ, which leads to eternal life.

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God our Saviour

Saviour — the one who rescues and delivers

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, Jude 1:24–25

God our Saviour is able to keep us from falling and present us spotless before His glory, which is the work Christ does through His Atonement.

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• alludes to Colossians 1:22 — to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight