Yhuwdah, a slave of Yeshuwah haMashiyach and a brother of Ya`aqob, to those in ‘Elohiym, having been shown checed by the Father, and having been guarded by Yeshuwah haMashiyach, and chosen:
Compassion to you and shalom and love be yours in abundance.
Chacdiym, I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share. I felt I had to write and urge you to contend for the ‘emuwnah that was once for all entrusted to the qadoshiym. For certain men crept in, whose condemnation was written about long ago; rasha`iym who have perverted the chen of our ‘Elohiym into a license for immorality and deny our only Master and Lord, Yeshuwah haMashiyach.
Though you already know these things, I want to remind you that YHWH once delivered people out of Mitsrayim, but later destroyed those who did not believe. And mal’akiym, who did not keep their positions in the first estate but abandoned their own home, He has kept under Choshek, bound in eternal disability until Judgment on the Day of Gadowl. Like Cdom and `Amorah and the surrounding towns, likewise they committed sexual chat’owt and chased after strange flesh. They serve as an example of those who suffer the eternal vengeance of fire.
In the very same way, these vile dreamers even make their own bodies tame’, despise dominion, and blaspheme against doctrines. But even Miyka'el, 'Achad of the Sariym of the Ri'shoniym, when He was disputing with the devil about the body of Mosheh, did not dare to bring an accusation of blasphemy against him, but said, "YHWH will rebuke you!" Yet these men give assent to what they do not understand, blaspheming; and what things they understand naturally -- like instinctual animals -- these are the very things that corrupt them.
Woe to them! They have taken the way of Qayin, they have rushed for self-profit into the error of Bil`am, and they will be destroyed fully in the pesha` of Qorach.
These men are blemishes at your checed feasts, engaging in gluttony with you -- feeding themselves without reverence. They are clouds without rain, blown along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead having been uprooted. They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackness of Choshek has been reserved forever.
Even Chanowk, the seventh from ‘Adam, prophesied about these men, saying, "See, He is coming with ten thousands of His qadoshiym to execute judgment upon all, and to destroy all the rasha`iym – to convict all flesh of all the actions of their resha` done in the way of Rasha`, and of all the harsh words risha` chata`iym have spoken against Him!" These are grumblers blaming fate; they follow their own longings for what is forbidden; they speak pridefully about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.
But you, chacdiym, remember what the shlachiym of our Lord Yeshuwah haMashiyach foretold. They said to you, "In the last times there will be those who teach from out of their own longings for what is forbidden who will be followed by rasha`iym. They isolate themselves, intellectuals who have no nephesh.”
But you, chacdiym, build yourselves up in your ‘emuwnah that sets you apart, praying in the Ruach haQodesh. Keep yourselves in the checed of ‘Elohiym, eagerly awaiting the mercy of our Lord Yeshuwah haMashiyach, the purpose of Chay l`Owlam.
Have compassion for those who oppose you; save others with reverence, snatching them from the fire, hating even the clothing stained by he who is worldly.
To Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and set you firmly in the Presence of His Kabowd, perfect and with joyful welcome, to Him -- only ‘Elohiym, our Savior -- through Yeshuwah haMashiyach, our Lord, will be Honor, Divinity, Power and Authority before all the age, now, and to all the ages! Amen.
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