Jude 5-9
“Jesus responds to those who deny him”
Continuing our study in Jude we need to take a quick look back at what just happens Jude tells us about the false teachers who have infiltrated the ranks of the church. Now these men do not take God by surprised God knows what lies in the hearts of men and by the Holy Spirit Jude is able to warn the church against such an intrusion. But ultimately the battle is the LORDS as we will see in the next few verses how Jesus responds to those who deny him
5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; (NKJV)
Verse five takes us all the way back the book of Exodus 12:51 were God saves his people out of slavery. God uses signs and wonders to show Pharaoh who is the true God. In Exodus 12:51 the people of God leave Egypt but only to complain in the vary next chapter 16:7-12 of Exodus and this was to be a habitual attitude of Gods people and still is to this vary day! Verse six in Jude takes us back even further to Genesis chapter six were the Angels inter married with man and had children by them. The word for keep is the same applied to the believers in Jude 1 and to the Angles in verse 6 Jude uses this I think as a play on words. These Angles are now bound up in chains and waiting for the final judgment of Jesus Christ at the Great White Throne Judgment in Revelation 20:15.
7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 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, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” (NJKV)
Here Jude is takes us back to Genesis were God destroys the twin cities because of their wickedness in chapter 13. Jude draws a contrast between the people of Sodom and the apostates. The reference to dreamers indicates that the apostates use dreams and visions to to support their own false teachings. You will know the false teachers by the way they live out life and Jude makes it vary clear that false teachers are perverse. They rebel against all authority, the word dignitaries means angelic beings and the false teachers insult them as well. Now what should be the believers response to false teachers? Jude tells us that Not even the arch angel of Gods army disputed against Satan. Jude quotes the pseudepigraphical book Assumption of Moses in which God sends Michal to bury the body of Moses and Satan comes and tries to desecrate the body. Michal does curse Satan but leaves the Judgment to God. As believers in it is not your place to curse or bring judgment against the false teachers but letting God do the judging.