Father Mike Schmitz

So we have the letter of Jude today.

And so it's really brief.

Jude is known as one of the relatives of Jesus, right?

So Adelphoi is the proper term.

Jude is the brother of James.

And one of the things that we recognize about Jude in this letter of Jude is we don't necessarily know who he's writing to exactly.

It's like, you know, St.

Paul writing to Timothy.

We know exactly who he's writing to.

St.

Paul writing to the Ephesians.

We know exactly who he's writing to.

But what he's identified, he's identified a number of behaviors that people are not living according to the call they've received in Christ Jesus.

There's a lot of immorality happening in their lives.

And so one of the things we know about Jude is Jude knows the Old Testament pretty well.

And he knows the Jewish writings really well because he gives examples that we are familiar with right now.

He gives the examples of Israel's wilderness rebellion.

He gives examples of the rebellious angels from Genesis chapter six, right?

He gives the example of the men of Sodom at the end of the book of Genesis, as well as he even uses some stories that are not actually from the Hebrew Old Testament, but from other stories.

For example, he talks about Michael the archangel.