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182 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
God's favor and the right to everlasting life?
Sounding a timely warning, the disciple Jude
writes: "I desire to remind you, despite your
knowing all things once for all time, that Jehovah,
although he saved a people out of the land of
Egypt, afterwards destroyed those not showing
faith . And the angels that did not keep their original
position but forsook their own proper dwellingplace
he has reserved with eternal bonds under
dense darkness for the judgment of the great day."
The highly honored "covering cherub" in Eden
gave way to ambitious selfishness and became the
great Serpent, the deceiver . So Jehovah God sentenced
him and his seed to destruction, to be
crushed under the heel of the Seed of God's "woman"
. Jude 5, 6, NW; Genesis 3 :15 It behooves
us to heed Jude's reminder to remain faithful .
s That part of the world which is called "Christendom"
is full of so many different religions
called "Christian", some 256 being counted in the
United States alone, that first of all we have to
ascertain whether we have the true faith . We
must have that faith, before we can heed Jude's
exhortation "to put up a hard fight for the faith
that was once for all time delivered to the holy
ones".-Jude 3, NW .
4 We are nineteen centuries removed from the
time when that faith was once for all delivered to
the faithful followers of Jesus Christ. This has
3. To put up a hard fight for the faith, we ascertain
what first?
4. Of what did Peter and Paul warn? Has this taken
place?