I have put the Lord’s birth “Hebrew” name Yahoshua, in the place that King James added “Jesus”. This is the ony change I made.
1 Jude, the servant of Yahoshua, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Yahoshua, and called: 2 mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common 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 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 Yahoshua.
5 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. 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 9 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. 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13 raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, 15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Yahoshua; 18 how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Yahoshua unto eternal life. 22 And of some have compassion, making a difference: 23 and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
24 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, 25 to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
My personal commentary: Jude has been a wonderful scripture for me ever since I first read it. I believe it’s a perfect picture of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Since that first time when I read it, it has always spoke a different picture into my mind each and everytime. Today more than ever.
Numbers 16
The Rebellion of Korah
1 Korah, son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and the Reubenites Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On, son of Peleth,* son of Reuben took
2 two hundred and fifty Israelites who were leaders in the community, members of the council and men of note, and confronted Moses.
3 Holding an assembly against Moses and Aaron, they said,a “You go too far! The whole community, all of them, are holy; the LORD is in their midst. Why then should you set yourselves over the LORD’s assembly?”
4 When Moses heard this, he fell prostrate.
5 Then he said to Korah and to all his faction, “May the LORD make known tomorrow morning who belongs to him and who is the holy one and whom he will have draw near to him! The one whom he chooses, he will have draw near to him.
6 Do this: take your censers, Korah and all his faction,
7 and put fire in them and place incense in them before the LORD tomorrow. He whom the LORD then chooses is the holy one. You Levites go too far!”
8 Moses also said to Korah, “Hear, now, you Levites!
9 Are you not satisfied that the God of Israel has singled you out from the community of Israel, to have you draw near him to maintain the LORD’s tabernacle, and to attend upon the community and to serve them?
10 He has allowed you and your Levite kinsmen with you to approach him, and yet you seek the priesthood too.
11 It is therefore against the LORD that you and all your faction are conspiring. As for Aaron, what has he done that you should grumble against him?”
Rebellion of Dathan and Abiram.
12 Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, but they answered, “We will not go.*
13 Are you not satisfied that you have brought us here from a land flowing with milk and honey to have us perish in the wilderness, that now you must also lord it over us?
14 Far from bringing us to a land flowing with milk and honey, or giving us fields and vineyards for our inheritance, will you gouge out our eyes?No, we will not go.”
15 Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Pay no attention to their offering. I have never taken a single donkey from them, nor have I wronged any one of them.”
16 Moses said to Korah, “You and all your faction shall appear before the LORD tomorrow—you and they and Aaron too.
17 Then each of you take his own censer, put incense in it, and present it before the LORD, two hundred and fifty censers; and you and Aaron, each with his own censer, do the same.”
18 So each of them took their censers, and laying incense on the fire they had put in them, they took their stand by the entrance of the tent of meeting along with Moses and Aaron.
19 Then, when Korah had assembled all the community against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting, the glory of the LORD appeared to the entire community,
20 and the LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
21 Stand apart from this community, that I may consume them at once.
22 But they fell prostrate and exclaimed, “O God, God of the spirits of all living creatures, if one man sins will you be angry with the whole community?”
23 The LORD answered Moses:
24 Speak to the community and tell them: Withdraw from the area around the tent* of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.
Punishment of Dathan and Abiram.
25 Moses, followed by the elders of Israel, arose and went to Dathan and Abiram.*
26 Then he spoke to the community, “Move away from the tents of these wicked men and do not touch anything that is theirs: otherwise you too will be swept away because of all their sins.”
27 So they withdrew from the area around the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. When Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing at the entrance of their tents with their wives, their children, and their little ones,
28 Moses said, “This is how you shall know that the LORD sent me to do all I have done, and that it was not of my own devising:
29 if these die an ordinary death, merely suffering the fate common to all humanity, the LORD has not sent me.
30 But if the LORD makes a chasm, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them with all belonging to them, and they go down alive to Sheol, then you will know that these men have spurned the LORD.”
31 No sooner had he finished saying all this than the ground beneath them split open,
32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their families and all of Korah’s people* with all their possessions.
33 They went down alive to Sheol with all belonging to them; the earth closed over them, and they disappeared from the assembly.
34 But all the Israelites near them fled at their shrieks, saying, “The earth might swallow us too!”
35 And fire from the LORD came forth which consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.