When the news of the "Gospel of Jude" or Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed Jesus was "discovered" I thought of posting an excerpt of Richard's book on the Gospel of John and the Epistle of St Jude. I haven't read the Gospel of Jude, but if it is out I intend to read it out of curiosity. But according to the proofs found in Richard's book the more you read the more you understand and believe and accept that there is no need of any other epistles or stories to clarify because everything is in the bible: sola scriptura:

 

http://www.biblewheel.com/Book/eBook.asp (pp361-364 of BibleWheel)

The Last Supper: St. Jude Asks a Question (Gospel of John links with Jude)

Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
John 14:22f (Spoke 21, Cycle 2)

The Greek name translated as Jude is actually Judas, the same as the Apostle Judas who asked the question of the Lord at the Last Supper. It also is the same as that of the apostate Apostle Judas Iscariot, which is why John inserted the clarification "not Iscariot" in the verse above. His treacherous betrayal of the Lord brought such disgrace to his name that the faithful Apostle Judas is listed by his surname Thaddaeus in the apostolic lists in Matthew 10:3 and Mark 3:18.

The identification of the author of the Epistle of Jude with the Apostle St. Jude with the Apostle St. Jude Thaddaeus can be found as early as the second and third centuries in the writings of Origin [died 254 AD] and Tertulian [died 230 AD]. This tradition is maintained to this day in both the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches. But it cannot be determined with complete certainty from Scripture, like what we saw with the Fourteen Epistles of Paul (pg 100). The answer that Jesus gave to Jude's question forms a threefold thematic link between John, Jude and a Shin verse in AV Psalm 119!

	Triple Spoke 21 Thematic Link Keep yourselves in the Love of God!
Shin Verse	John (Cycle 2)	Jude (Cycle 3)
AV Ps 119:167 My soul hath kept thy testamonies, and I love them exceedingly.	[14:23] Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him,	[24] Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Yet there is still more! When Christ prayed that God the Father would keep us in His name, He also prayed that he would sanctify us. And how does the book of Jude open? With the fulfillment of that exact prayer!

Triple Spoke 21 Keylink The Father's Answer to Christ's Prayer that we be Sanctified
John (Spoke 21, Cycle 2)	Jude (Spoke 21, Cycle 3)
[17:17] Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. ... that they also might be sanctified through the truth	[1] Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved ...

And this brings us yet to another witness of the Divine Preservation of the Holy Word. God preserved His Word by making many copies of it. The vast majority of these copies agree with each other and are known as the Majority Text, which also is the basis of the King James Bible. The KeyLink above is not found in the modern versions of the Bible because the scholars, with their odd predilection for certain rare texts with relatively obscure variations, have rejected the word "sanctified" in Jude 1. So once again, as with the text of 1 John 5:7 (pg 328), and Luke 4:4 (pg 347), we have a powerful built-in witness of the Divine Preservation of the Bible in the Majority Text, the basis of the King James Version.

The Final Warning of Eternal Fire

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved (tereo) in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Jude 1:3ff (Spoke 21, Cycle 3)

Jude is the Last Book before the final consumation of God's plan of the Ages unveiled in the Book of Revelation, when the faithful will enter into eternal bliss with their Lord and the wicked will be thrown into the Lake of Fire. This too is linked to the Shin verse of AV Psalm 145:

The LORD preserveth (shamar) all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy (shamad) AV 145:20

The KeyWords shamar and shamad differ only in their final Letters, Resh and Dalet. There is a deep teaching here, too deep to share in an introductory book like this except to point out the relation between the Resh and the theme of mercy (KeyWord racham, pg 342) and Dalet and the theme of death (Fourth Seal, Four Sore Judgments, etc, pg 171).

The Divine perfection of the placement of Jude on Spoke 21 with its primary message both to the faithful (keep the faith!) and to the wicked (judgement is coming!) immediately before the Apocalypse could be no clearer. This is the Work of God. This is the revelation of the Bible Wheel.

pp361-364 of BibleWheel

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