What are historical examples of apostasy? How can you identify an apostate? What are 3 characteristics of apostasy? How are apostates similar to Baalam? Why will God judge apostates?

2. 8 Likewise also these dreamers defile
the flesh, reject authority, and speak
evil of dignitaries. 9 Yet Michael the
archangel, in contending with the
devil, when he disputed about the
body of Moses, dared not bring
against him a reviling accusation,

3. but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” 10 But
these speak evil of whatever they do
not know; and whatever they know
naturally, like brute beasts, in these
things they corrupt themselves. 11Woe
to them! For they have gone in the
way of Cain,

4. have run greedily in the error of
Balaam for profit, and perished in the
rebellion of Korah.

5. EXAMPLE Jude CAUSE
5
6
7
11a
11b
11c
Israel
Fallen Angels
Sodom & Gomorrah
Cain
Balaam
Korah
Unbelief
Rebellion
Rejection of Divine
Authority
Financial Greed
Religious Perversion
Sexual Immorality

6. 8 Likewise also these dreamers defile
the flesh, reject authority, and speak
evil of dignitaries.

7. “These men, also by dreaming...”
”
While meditating
in a cave the
angel Gabriel
appeared in a
vision and
commanded him
to “recite”.

8. “These men, also by dreaming...”
”
Further visits by
Gabriel other
visions allegedly
resulted in the
Koran, which
literally means
“the recitation”.

9. “These men, also by dreaming...”
”
Jeremiah 23:25-27
“I have heard what the prophets have said
who prophesy lies in My name, saying, ‘I have
dreamed, I have dreamed!’ 26 How long will this be
in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies?
Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own
heart, 27 who try to make My people forget My
name by their dreams which everyone tells his
neighbor, as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.

10. “These men, also by dreaming...”
”"I saw a pillar of light
exactly over my head,
above the brightness of the sun,
which descended gradually until it
fell upon me… When the light rest-
ed upon me I saw two Personages,
whose brightness and glory defy
all description, standing above me
in the air. One of them spake unto
me, calling me by name and said,
pointing to the other-This is My
Beloved Son. Hear Him!"

11. “These men, also by dreaming...”
”Deuteronomy 13:1-4
“If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer
of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the
sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to
you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’—which you have
not known—‘and let us serve them,’ 3 you shall not listen
to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams,
for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you
love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all
your soul. 4 You shall walk after the LORD your God and
fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His
voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.

12. “These men, also by dreaming...”
”

13. 8 Likewise also these dreamers defile
the flesh, reject authority, and speak
evil of dignitaries.

14. 8-10
A. Sexual Impurity
B. ________
C. __________________________

15. SEXUAL IMPURITY: “defile the flesh…”
flesh (sarx) = body, flesh
defiled (miaino) = to dye with another color
or to stain; to pollute

16. SEXUAL IMPURITY: “defile the flesh…”
I Thessalonians 4:3-8
For this is the will of God, your sanctification:
that you should abstain from sexual immorality;
4that each of you should know how to possess his
own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5not in
passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know
God; 6that no one should take advantage of and
defraud his brother in this matter, because the
Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also
forewarned you and testified.

17. I Thessalonians 4:3-8
7 For God did not call us to uncleanness,
but in holiness. 8 Therefore he who rejects this
does not reject man, but God, who has also given
us His Holy Spirit.
SEXUAL IMPURITY: “defile the flesh…”

18. Started the Children of
God in 1968, one of the most
deviant of all cultic groups with
a current membership of 25,000
worldwide.
SEXUAL IMPURITY: “defile the flesh…”

19. 8 Likewise also these dreamers defile
the flesh, reject authority, and speak
evil of dignitaries.

20. 8-10
A. Sexual Impurity
B. Sedition
C. _________________________

21. reject (athetousin) = to destroy something
already established
SEDITION: “reject authority…”
authority (kyriotēs) = lord

22. Luke 6:46
But why do you call Me “Lord, Lord,” and not
do the things which I say?
SEDITION: “reject authority…”
Psalm 73:9
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their
tongue walks through the earth.
Psalm 73:11
And they say, “How does God know? And is there
knowledge in the Most High?”

23. I Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin
of witchcraft, and
stubbornness is as
iniquity and idolatry.
SEDITION: “reject authority…”

24. 8 Likewise also these dreamers defile
the flesh, reject authority, and speak
evil of dignitaries.

25. 8-10
A. Sexual Impurity
B. Sedition
C. Slander those who Glorify God

26. Jude 9
Yet Michael the
archangel, in contending
with the devil, when he
disputed about the body
of Moses, dared not bring
against him a reviling
accusation, but said, “The
Lord rebuke you!”
SLANDER THOSE WHO GLORIFY GOD: “revile dignitaries”

27. “This web-site is designed to spread the vicious
truth about the Bible. For far too long priests
and preachers ignored the vicious criminal acts
that the Bible promotes. The so called “God” of
the Bible makes Osama Bin Laden look like a Boy
Scout. This God, according to the Bible, is
directly responsible for many mass-murders,
rapes, pillage, plunder, slavery, child abuse and
killing, not to mention the killing of unborn
children.”

28. Jude 10
But these speak evil of whatever they do not
know; and whatever they know naturally, like
brute beasts, in these things they corrupt
themselves.
“destroyed... Woe”

29. “So that, in effect, religion,
which should most distinguish us
from beasts, and ought most
peculiarly to elevate us, as rational
creatures above brutes, is that
wherein men often appear most
irrational, and more senseless than
beasts themselves.”
- John Locke
“destroyed... Woe”

30. Jude 11
Woe to them! For they have gone in
the way of Cain, have run greedily in
the error of Balaam for profit, and
perished in the rebellion of Korah.

31. Cain = “possession”
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the
woman, and between your seed and her
Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you
shall bruise His heel.”
“the way of Cain...”

32. “the way of Cain...”
The first human born
after the fall becomes a
murder – he is the first of
the line that is ‘seed of
the serpent’.
Genesis 4:1-12
(cp. John 8:44)

33. I John 3:11-12
For this is the message that you heard from the
beginning, that we should love one another,
12not as Cain who was of the wicked one and
murdered his brother. And why did he murder
him? Because his works were evil and his
brother’s righteous.
“the way of Cain...”

34. Numbers 22:2-19
“the error of Balaam...”
Balaam = “glutton”
swallowing the people

35. “the error of Balaam...”
Balaam typifies someone who knows the
will of God and yet, because of their own selfish
desires, deliberately turns from God and follows
the world, even stooping so low as to actually
side with God’s enemies and work against the
people of God. Balaam is a prime illustration of
false teachers—those who love wealth and
prestige more than faithfulness and obedience.

36. “the error of Balaam...”
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you, because you
have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam,
who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before
the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to
idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

37. “the error of Balaam...”
Balaam had been guilty of counseling King
Balak to cause Israel to sin through intermarriage
with heathen women and through idol-worship (cf.
Num. 22-25; 31:15-16). Eventually Balaam was
killed:
Numbers 31:8 They killed the kings of Midian with
the rest of those who were killed—Evi, Rekem, Zur,
Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. Balaam the
son of Beor they also killed with the sword.

38. “the error of Balaam...”
Matthew 7:15
Beware of false prophets,
who come to you in
sheep’s clothing, but
inwardly they are ravenous
wolves.

39. “the error of Balaam...”
Mark 12:38-40
Then He said to them in His teaching, “Beware of
the scribes, who desire to go around in long
robes, love greetings in the marketplaces, 39 the
best seats in the synagogues, and the best places
at feasts, 40 who devour widows’ houses, and for a
pretense make long prayers. These will receive
greater condemnation.”

40. “the rebellion of Korah...”
Numbers 16
Like Korah, the false teachers in the early church
were departing from God’s chosen leaders in the
apostles, and like Korah, they and those who
followed them would experience judgment. It is
not merely the apostate that experiences such an
outcome, but all who ally themselves with the
same teaching.
Korah = “little bald head”

41. “the rebellion of Korah...”
Numbers 16
“You have gone far
enough, for all the congre-
gation are holy, every one
of them, and the Lord is in
their midst; so why do you
exalt yourselves above the
assembly of the Lord?”

42. “the rebellion of Korah...”
Matthew 23:15
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte,
and when he is won, you make him twice as much
a son of hell as yourselves.”

43. Cain
~ rebelled against God’s authority in Salvation
Balaam
~ rebelled against God’s authority in Sanctification
Korah
~ rebelled against God’s authority in Service

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