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Jude 6 - KJT
"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."
2Pet 2:4
For if God spared not the angels that
sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness,
to be reserved unto judgment...
Some comments:
i. Satan’s original sin was pride but
the sin of these angels is completely different; the resultant judgment is
entirely different, too. Not a few choose to be oblivious to the obvious.
ii. The sin of these angels is
described from two perspectives, 2 sides of 1 sin: they kept not their first
estate, but left their own habitation.
- The meaning is simple.
- There is a close connection between
"their first estate" and "their own habitation"
- Their first estate is their original
sphere/realm of habitation ordained and determined for them by the LORD God
their Creator.
- Their first estate is their own
habitation, i.e. in the spirit realm.
- To keep their first estate is to
remain and abide in it; it is their own habitation; not keeping their first
estate is to leave their own habitation; thus transgressing against what God
has ordained for them.
- To leave their own habitation
necessarily implies trespassing into another habitation not their own; it’s
abandoning their first estate for another estate. These are all elementary.
iii. Both Peter and Jude
matter-of-factly stated a historical event, an event they took for granted that
their Jewish recipients knew and understood; they just stated the bare facts of
the matter: the angels that sinned suffered the Lord’s vengeance in the manner
stated.
Some questions:
- Why did these angels leave their own
habitation and trespass into another habitation?
- What was their purpose and motive?
- Where is this sin plainly recorded in
the Scriptures?
