To him who is able to keep you from falling and
present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great
joy—to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority
through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages now and forevermore! Amen
(Jude 24, 25).
This is God’s promise to all of us. If we will trust God unconditionally, God will complete the development
of our characters and personalities. Further God promises to do this
for all ages, in each incarnation of our existence. Jude’s reiteration
of the promise is to support the prophecy he quotes in his letter
regarding false teachers. This was a promise of Enoch, who he writes is
“the seventh Adam.” While the Judeo-Christian faith speaks little of
this truth from ancient antiquity, it can be found throughout the Bible.
Jude bases the strength of his proclamation that “certain men
whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in
among you . . . who deny Jesus, our only sovereign and Lord” on the fact
that the 7th incarnation of Adam himself, God's first human-spiritual
creation on the earth, made this prophetic announcement long before the
Advent of the Christ.
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