General Letter of Yâhuwthâ´h
יָהוּדָה
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Problem: apostasy and lawlessness
3. Beloved: using all diligence to write to you about our common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, imploring you to earnestly contend for the persuasion once entrusted to the pure ones!
4. For certain humans came in stealthily, those who of old have been marked out beforehand for this sentence; irreverent ones, changing the favor of our Mighty Ones into licentiousness and denying the only Yâ-hwéh ’Elohíym, even our Sovereign Yâhuwshúa` the Anointed!
Who shall solve it?
5. But I intend to gently remind you once recognizing this, that Yâ-hwéh (He causes to be/exist), when He had rescued the people out of the Land of Mitsráyim, secondly He destroyed those who did not believe!
6. Also envoys that did not keep their own Chief, who instead forsook their own habitat, He keeps in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the Great Day! [Chanówkh 10:6-17, 12:5-7, 14:1-7, 15:1-16:5]
7. As Çthóm and `Amorâ´h and the cities around them with a similar lifestyle to these, having given themselves over to fornication, and having followed behind alternative flesh, they are set forth as an example, having undergone the penalty of fire of the Endless One!
Rebellious “Christians” revile what they do not discern
8. However, also these dreamers, in common with them, indeed defile the flesh and reject sovereignty, and revile dignities!
9. Yet Miykhâ’Ë´l (Who is as the Mighty One), the Chief Envoy, when disputing with the Accuser, who argued concerning the body of Moshéh, did not dare to accuse a judgment of slander; instead He said:
10. But these, they revile whatever things they have not discerned! But whatever things they do grasp instinctively, as the irrational animals, in these things they corrupt themselves!
11. Hówy (Woe) to them! Because they went to the way of Qáyin [killing the righteous elect], and rushed out to the error of Bil`â´m [attempting to curse the righteous elect] for profit, so they shall[E2] perish for the contradiction of Qórach [claiming to be the chosen leaders of the righteous elect]!
12. These are sunken reefs in your love-feasts[E3] , fearlessly feasting with you, pasturing only themselves; clouds without water, being carried about by winds [Proverbs 25: 14[E4] ]; twice dead autumnal trees – without fruit and uprooted!
13. Wild waves of the sea frothing over their own shames (genitalia); misleading stars, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved unto the ages!
14. But also Chanówkh, the seventh from ’Âthâ´m, foretold as to these saying:
“Look at Yâ-hwéh, for He comes with ten-thousands of His pure ones,
15. To execute judgment upon all, and He shall annihilate the wicked and He shall punish all who are fleshly concerning all their wicked deeds that they have committed wickedly, and concerning all the harsh words which wicked sinners have spoken against Him.” [Chanówkh 2: 1]
16. These are grumblers, blamers of fate[E5] , walking according to their lusts, and their mouth speaks overbearing words, admiring mere appearances to favor their advantage!
17. But ye, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the delegates of our Sovereign Yâhuwshúa` the Anointed,
18. That they said to you,
“…that on the final days scoffers shall come, walking according to their own private (irreverent) cravings” [2 Këph 3: 3]
19. These are those who separate themselves off, the instinctual ones not having the Spirit. [2 Këph 2: 2]
How we are to deal with this problem
20. ¶ But ye, beloved, by edifying yourselves up in your most pure persuasion, praying within the Spirit of the Pure One,
21. Keep yourselves within the affectionate love of the Mighty Ones, awaiting the mercy of our Sovereign Yâhuwshúa` the Anointed for endless life!
22. So indeed pity some who make a separation [v.19],
23. And others rescue with fear, snatching them out of the fire, hating even the garment being spotted by the flesh!
24. But for Him, Who is able to keep you without stumbling, and to stand you before His Splendor, unblemished, in exulting joy,
25. For Yâ-hwéh, our Deliverer, Who alone is wise, be honor and greatness, vigor and authority, both now, and for all of the ages! ’Âmë´n.
General Letter of Yâhuwthâ´h
[E1]Red letter because the Chief of Envoys, Who is as the Mighty One, is Yâhuwshúa`. Consider, Who does Deuteronomy 34: 6 say buried Moshéh? Yâ-hwéh’s Person, Who is as the Mighty One.
[E2]`Ivríyth (Hebrew) waw-conversive makes this future tense, which is logical as this hasn’t happened yet.
[E3]Feast days stipulated by scripture which memorialize the covenant to ’Avrâhâ´m are considered love feasts because the covenant is an agreement enabling men to obtain the nature of Yâ-hwéh’s Love.
[E4]Clouds and wind, yet there is no rain is a man boasting about the gift of the Lie.
[E5]Fate personified in `Ivríyth (Hebrew) is Meníy, pronounced “Money” (aka Destiny) and is found in Yshá`Yâhuw 65:11. People who attribute events to merely fate deny a directed master plan, and thus deny the existence of a Mighty One. These also serve Money, their driving force and whom they believe rules. These will think the disciplinary trials ahead are not due to their disobedience, but due to “fate”.