Jude 8-11

v8: The false teachers who Jude warns his readers about are described as having “a disturbed mind and a rebellious spirit.” They “despise the word of God,” and these “revelations of God’s will mean little to them,” seeing them “as a rule of faith and life,” only “after they have explained them and imposed their explanation of them on everyone else.”

v9: There was a well-known story that said that after Moses died, the devil tried to claim his body for himself by saying Moses was guilty of murder, therefore unworthy of an honourable burial. However, the archangel Michael “would not stand disputing with the Devil, nor enter into a particular debate” about it. He didn’t take it upon himself to reject the devil’s accusations, instead quoting what God’s Word says, like the Lord himself later would.

v10: “Those who speak evil of religion and godliness speak evil of the things which they know not, because if they knew them they would speak well of them, for nothing but what is good and excellent can be truthfully said of the Christian faith.”

v11: These deceivers are “an unbelieving and worldly people, who think little… about God” and the “future world.” They are “greedy people who, so long as they can gain present worldly advantages, do not care what comes next,” and “rush into actions” by “which they will certainly perish.”