Remember Their Warning

Daily Devotional: Read Jude 1:17–23

When I was a child, whenever I left for school, my mom would give me a list of things to remember. Remember to look both ways before you cross the street. Remember to listen to the teacher. As Jude draws his letter to a close, he gives his readers some serious things to remember, things the apostles of Jesus Christ had told them.

Jude’s “remember” resembles the words of Peter: “I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles (2 Peter 3:2). What did they need to remember? Jude was warning about the last times (which is our present age) when scoffers will follow their own desires. They will try to divide the people of God. They will follow their own instincts and be devoid of the Spirit of God (v. 18).

Remember everything written

John, the apostle, gave a similar warning: “Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come” (1 John 2:18). He continues, “Many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God” (1 John 4:1–3). Peter echoes his words as well, “In the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires” (2 Peter 3:3).

We must remember the warnings given by the apostles about antichrists, false prophets, and scoffers. At the same time, we should build ourselves up in the faith for which we are contending, pray for one another, and keep ourselves in God’s love as we wait on the Lord (vv. 20–21).

Go Deeper

Do you need to be built up in your faith? Meditate on God’s Word. Do you know someone who needs your prayers? Lift them up in prayer.

Pray with Us

Jesus, increase our love for Your Word and our desire to know its truths. May we remember its lessons and learn from them, especially Jude’s continued warning about false teachers, scoffers, and slanderers.

Remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold.

Jude 1:17