Judaism and Old Testament Prophecy

In precedent, jesus had foretold the rise of such false teachers in the olivet discourse. And typology, they are distinguished by their ungodliness, their licentious ness and their denial of the lordship of jesus. Their lives are characterized by debauchery and by sexual immorality in excess. They perverted grace into license, twisting the teaching of the gospel into an excuse for sin. The use of these particular examples finds plenty of precedent in jewish extra canonical works. To understand books like jude, it really matters that we have some awareness of wider jewish writings. Particularly important when reading jude is to recognize that, while it is