Introductory Message for the Book of Jude

Jude has been called “the vestibule to the book of Revelation.” While there are hundreds of such warnings throughout the Bible, Jude is the only book in the Bible which is entirely devoted to the great apostasy which will take over all of Christendom before the second coming of Christ.
Originally Jude was going to write about “the common salvation,” but it was “needful” for him to change plans and write instead about contending for the faith (vs. 3). The apostates were causing serious problems and so the Holy Spirit wanted Jude to warn his readers. The Scofield Bible says, “In this brief letter the apostasy of the professing church is predicted, and the cause and course described. As in Second Timothy and Second Peter the apostasy is treated as having already set in.” We are “preserved in Jesus Christ.” This is one of the great doctrines of the NT.