Jude,The Book of

[Gr.Ioudas or Judas"finally"]

Courtesy of James Earl Jones(Bible Audio)The Book of Jude

Background:Many believe that Jude was a brother of Jesus.His letter uses almost the same words as 2P2-3:3 to condemn all who mislead by their wrong teaching.He too writes of their future punishment and encourages his reader to keep to the teaching they were given originally.

Author:Jude,brother of Jacob and half-brother of Jesus                (1:1Mt13:53-56)

Date and Location: Perhaps cAD69:

-1:14-18 seems to describe the false teachers Peter had warned of their coming((2P2:1-19;3:1-3).While Peter,writing cAD64-67,expected their arrival soon(2P2:1),they had already arrived by the time Jude wrote(4)

-Jude probably wrote before Jerusalem's fall in 70,since if that event had already occurred,he will mention it in connection with the Exodus(5)

-17,suggests that,through most of the apostles were gone by the time Jude wrote,many of his readers had been instructed by them.

Recipients:Christians everywhere(1)

Purpose:Encourage Christians in their faith and to warn them of false teachers

Unique Features:

-Most general Nt letter

-emphasizes the relationship between right believing and right living

-it chronicles opposition to God from before time(6) to the end of time(14,15)

-it is filled with OT illustrations

-the only biblical reference to:

-the dispute over Moses's body(9)

-the prophecy of Enoch(14,15)

Comparison:Jas and Jude:both use metaphors from nature.see Jas

2P:Jude said that the false teachers Peter prophesied would come-had indeed come

Abbreviations:Jud./Jd./Jde

MV:2P2:1

Bib1Yr:1Jn1Word of Life