Jude 12 – 15

12 These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; 13 raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

14 Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, 15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

The “love feasts” were meals provided by congregations for the poorer members of the congregations. They were intended to help feed the poor who had few resources and scant food to live on. The wealthier members of the congregations would provide the food so that these destitute members would have at least one good meal per week. (2 Peter 2:13)

The “Spots” in the love feast is a figure of speech taken from a hidden rock in the sea that wrecks ships. Jude says these hidden dangers will arrive from these charitable feasts. These hidden dangers are members who were using the feasts to fill their own bellies with disregard for the poor members of the congregation who the dinners were intended for.

Clouds without water are great disappointments to those who are suffering from a dry spell and needing rain. Heavy dark gray clouds on the horizon provide hope for rain, but when they blow over without a drop of rain they create much disappointment.

In the autumn fruit trees provide ripe fruit ready to harvest and eat. We don't walk on our journeys any more to experience the hunger and then hope of seeing a fruit tree in the distance and then disappointment when arriving and not finding anything to eat. We would understand better if we think of a long drive on a journey in our automobile. We are traveling and hungry, we see a sign proclaiming good food just ahead, we begin anticipating the good food at the location, our mouths are watering, we are counting the seconds as we fly down the road to that food that will satisfy the hunger in our bellies. We arrive to find the source of the food is no longer in business. The disappointment! That is what the love feasts were like for the poor who arrived to find the food had already been taken by those who had the resources to get food at home.

These raging waves look threatening but only cause great disturbances of the water but accomplish nothing. These love feasts without food for the poor created great hype, but no filling of the poor bellies.

These people are like the stars or planets who seemingly have no fixed position. These people do have a place reserved for them, the outer darkness which awaits the wicked.

This prophesy of Enoch's is not recorded in our Bible but since Jude was an inspired writer of the word, he knows what he is writing about. This is the Enoch who “walked with God” and God took him to heaven without his death. He was in the bloodline of Christ.

The 10,000 saints who are coming with Christ include the ones in Jerusalem who rose from the grave at Christ's death on the cross.

Christ when He comes on the last day will convict everyone of their past deeds on this earth. They will receive punishment for the evil they have committed and the evil they have spoken of Christ. Those who have not repented of their evil and asked for His forgiveness will suffer eternally for their evil speech and deeds.