Slandering the Angels in Word and Deed

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Jesus, Theology, Old Testament, Demons, Satan, New Testament, Angels, Tim Mackie, Christianity, God, Spiritual Beings, Spirit, Religion & Spirituality, Bible, Jon Collins, Torah, Bible Study

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🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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The Letter of Jude E4 — In verses 5-7, Jude warns a Jewish Messianic community about a group of people in their midst who live without moral restraint and reject Jesus’ authority. After comparing them to a series of human and angelic rebels in the Hebrew Bible, Jude then calls out the corrupt church members in verses 8-10 as ones who “slander the glorious-ones,” referring to angels. What is Jude talking about, and why would slandering spiritual beings be considered offensive? In this episode, Jon and Tim explore the Hebrew Bible and Second-Temple period apocryphal literature to understand the unique role and revered status of angels among 1st-century Jewish people.

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0:00.0	The Bible has all sorts of warnings about things you should not do in life.
0:09.3	Don't murder.
0:10.0	That's one of the Ten Commandments.
0:11.5	Do not be afraid.
0:12.6	God says that to Joshua.
0:14.3	Do not judge.
0:15.4	That's the teaching of Jesus.
0:17.2	Well, today, we're going to talk about a warning you've probably never thought of before.
0:22.0	Don't slander angels.
0:24.7	What's that about?
0:26.2	We're working through the letter of Jude, and slandering angels is on the brain,
0:30.7	as Jude accuses certain men in his community of doing just that.
0:34.9	They slander the glorious ones.
0:36.5	Glorious ones, as we're going to see, is a way of referring to heavenly spiritual beings.
0:41.0	Angels.
0:41.8	These people criticize them, think they're better than them.
0:45.0	So why?
0:45.8	What is going on here?
0:47.1	And if this isn't confusing enough, that's just one of three accusations that he strings together.
0:52.8	He says, these people claim to have divine revelations. Look what they do. They pollute the flesh.
1:00.1	They are rejecting the Lord's authority. And they slander the glorious one.
1:05.1	Okay, if you're like me, you've probably gotten to sections like this in the Bible and think,
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