Jude 1:10
What is written? (ESV)
But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.
What does it say?
These people blaspheme what they don't understand and, like unreasoning animals, are destroyed by what they know instinctively.
What is its immediate context?
Jude is writing a scathing letter about the false teachers that have “crept in unnoticed.” (vs 4) In a preceding verse, he says, “Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.” (vs 8)
How Jude 1:10 is applied across Bible answers
Who is the Antichrist?
While there are many other passages that describe the nature of false teachers, Jude is likely written later in the first century -- around the same time as John's letters and vision. His descriptions of anyone teaching falsely fit well with John's warnings of the already present antichrist....and also correlate to John's vision and description of the beast in Revelation 13.1
