Welcome to Enjoying the Journey with Evangelist Scott Pauli.

Today we are on a journey through Scripture.

We hope you'll join us as we make 66 stops through each book of the Word of God.

I want you to imagine a book with several several books on it, would you please?

And on each end of that row of books are bookends holding them up, a starting point and an ending point.

As we've walked through the New Testament, there are multiple letters.

These are epistles, New Testament books.

And on each end of these books that detail for us to the church age, there are bookends.

There is a book that begins and ends this particular section of the Bible for us, and both of

those books are transitional books.

On the left, that book end is the book of Acts, the Acts of the Holy Spirit, and in the life

of the apostles, in the early church. On the right-hand side, that book end is the little book

of Jude, and just as the Book of Acts has been referred to as the Acts of the Apostles,

or the Acts of the Holy Spirit and in the lives of the apostles,

Jude is the Acts of the Apostates, those who turn from the truth,

who reject it, who resist it, who fight against it.

And like Acts, Jude is a transitional book.

So Acts shows us the early days of the church age,

and then Jude shows us the closing days of the church age.

And this will help you to kind of see where Jude fits into our New Testament.

Because it describes for us a period of time when people by and large have turned from revealed truth and how we're to act and respond in all of that.

It's placed very appropriately, I think, as the next to last book in our New Testament because it's like a vestibule leading into the revelation of Jesus Christ. My friend,

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