“Don’t you be surprised…they said that this would happen.” Jude, one of the Lord’s half-brothers, wrote this to believers to help them be discerning and cautious in the Sitz im Leben (social and cultural context) in which they were living. In verses 17 - 19, Jude points out the ways deception and chaos were running rampant: he saw it happening live and in living color. About six decades after the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, folks had lost sight of the tru