when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”
These separatists desert the saints and God's people, not from error but from pride and vain glory, making divisions and schisms. They were sensual men, natural creatures with only rational abilities, entirely without the indwelling Spirit of conviction, regeneration, sanctification, and adoption that marks God's children.
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By the last time Scripture means the era from Christ's first coming to the end, when those so drunken with profane contempt of God that they rush into brutal scoffing lose all fear and reverence, every dread of judgment and hope of eternal life. The world today swarms with such Epicurean despisers, casting off all fear and madly mocking the whole doctrine of true religion as fable.
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Jude quotes Peter's very words to his readers, that mockers will arise in the last times, walking according to their own ungodly lusts. The parallel is unmistakable; this is no loose allusion but direct reference to what the apostles spoke and Jude's audience was warned beforehand to expect.
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