Jude - Acts of the Apostates - Lamp Broadcast

1 Arlen L. ChitwoodJudeActs of the ApostatesA Study about the Prophesied Spiritual Condition of the Church at the Time of Christ s ReturnJude is a book dealing with apostasy. More specifically, jude is a book dealing with Christians caught up in apostasy, detailing the course and nature of this apostasy, along with the end re living very near the close of the present dispensation, dur-ing the time when the Laodicean period of Church history is rapidly nearing the remainder of this dispensation, according to Scrip-ture, there can ONLY be a further deterioration of existing conditions.

2 And the ONLY recourse which Christians have to avoid being engulfed, to some degree, in this departure from the faith is a knowledge of the Word of will be NO great awakening, great revival, in Christendom during days ahead. Rather, deteriorating conditions will only intensify during the closing days of the the end result of this deterioration COMPLETE apostasy, resulting from the working of the leaven which the woman placed in the three measures of meal (Matt. 13:33) will mark conditions throughout Christendom as the dispensation is brought to a , as all of the other New Testament epistles, deals with the salvation of the soul.

3 And the special and particular emphasis in jude is upon an ever-intensifying deterioration apostasy relative to correct Biblical teaching pertaining to THIS proffered salvation, NOT relative to salvation by grace or relative to Biblical doctrine in correctly understanding jude 3, in the preceding respect, is foundational to a correct understanding of the book as a whole: Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the com-mon salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

4 Go wrong here, and you will be wrong the rest of the way; BUT, correctly understand this verse, Introduction iJudeActs of the Apostatesiiii JUDEiii Introduction iiiJudeActs of the ApostatesbyArlen L. ChitwoodTheLamp Broadcast , S. Cottonwood Ranch RoadCottonwood, Arizona 86326or74798 South 4710 RoadWestville, Oklahoma Printing 1984 Second Printing 1999 Revised 2012, 2019iviv jude And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would that thou wert cold or then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing.

5 And knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous there-fore, and , I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him and he with him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

6 Rev. 3:14-21 Cover Photograph: Sunset on South Carolina Coast, Spring, 2005v Introduction vCONTENTS FOREWORD .. vii I. THE GREAT APOSTASY .. 1 AMONG THE SAVED, NOT THE UNSAVED II. CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH .. 15 A SPECIFIC FAITH AND EXHORTATION III. FALLING AWAY FROM THE FAITH .. 29 A SPECIFIC FAITH AND DEPARTURE IV. SAVED, BUT AFTERWARD DESTROYED .. 43 END RESULT OF A SPECIFIC DEPARTURE V. IN THOSE AFTER THAT .. 57 THE SONS OF GOD, THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN VI. IN LIKE MANNER.

7 71 SEXUAL PERVERSION, ANGELS, MEN, WOMEN VII. DEFILING ONE S HIGH CALLING .. 85 EXAMPLES, OLD TESTAMENT, NEW TESTAMENT VIII. WOE UNTO THEM .. 99 TEACHINGS DRAWN FROM CAIN, BALAAM, KORAH IX. BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH .. 113 EVENTS SURROUNDING CHRIST S RETURN X. MOCKERS IN THE LAST TIME .. 127 DIVISIVE, SENSUAL, WILLINGLY IGNORANT XI. BUT YE .. 141 BUILDING, KEEPING, LOOKING APPENDIX IF THEY SHALL FALL AWAY .. 155 THE WILFUL SIN .. 161 SCRIPTURE INDEX.

8 169vivi JUDEBy the Same Author RUTHESTHERBY FAITHRUN TO WINLET US GO ONEND OF THE DAYSMOSES AND JOHNIN THE LORD S DAYDISTANT HOOFBEATSSO GREAT SALVATIONTHE BRIDE IN GENESISGOD S FIRSTBORN SONSSEARCH FOR THE BRIDEWE ARE ALMOST THERESIGNS IN JOHN S GOSPELSALVATION OF THE SOULTHE MOST HIGH RULETHTHE SPIRITUAL WARFAREHAD YE BELIEVED MOSESTHE STUDY OF SCRIPTURECOMING IN HIS KINGDOMFROM EGYPT TO CANAANMYSTERY OF THE WOMANSEVEN, TEN GENERATIONSREDEEMED FOR A PURPOSEJUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRISTTHE RAPTURE AND BEYONDFROM acts TO THE EPISTLESMYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOMPROPHECY ON MOUNT OLIVETNEVER AGAIN!

9 OR YES, AGAIN!THE TIME OF JACOB S TROUBLEBROUGHT FORTH FROM ABOVEISRAEL FROM DEATH TO LIFEO SLEEPER! ARISE, ! (JONAH)THE TIME OF THE END (REVELATION)MIDDLE EAST PEACE HOW? WHEN?SALVATION BY GRACE THROUGH FAITHMESSAGE IN THE GOSPELS, acts , EPISTLESISRAEL WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?vii Introduction viiFOREWORDA postasy is a major subject of Scripture, beginning among the Israelites in the Old Testament and continuing among Christians in the New were false prophets among the Israelites during and follow-ing Moses day, even as there have been and are false teachers in Christendom during the present day.

10 And the message of the false teachers in Christendom is described by the words, damnable her-esies, which had its counterpart in the message previously proclaimed by the false prophets in Israel (II Peter 2:1).Over the space of three years, Paul, night and day with tears, had warned the Christians in Ephesus concerning individuals who would arise within the Church and lead many individuals were described as grievous [ savage, violent ] wolves who would proclaim perverse things [distorting, twisting the truth], and draw away disciples after them ( acts 20:29-31).