Jude 7
Memory Verse
as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them in this same manner indulged in illicit sexual relations and went after a different kind of flesh, publicly exposed as an example, having undergone punishment of eternal fire (Jude 7).
As Jude continues to remind the saints that those who have crept in are marked for judgment, he gives examples of how God judged unbelievers and the wicked to show what awaits those who follow their paths. He comes to Sodom and Gomorrah, two cities in the plush, green valley of Siddim that followed the ways of the demons who left their first estate and went after another kind of flesh.
God destroyed Sodom, Gomorrah, and the entire valley, save for one city, because of a righteous man in the city. He did so by lightning and fire as an example of the judgment that awaits all those who perform such wickedness and follow their paths of perversion (2 Peter 2:6).
God knows how to deliver the godly from temptation and to reserve the unjust under punishment until the day of judgment (2 Peter 2:9–10). In their wickedness, they reject God and manipulate the saints, but these actions only bring greater judgment upon them because a quality of God’s wrath rests upon them (Romans 1:18).
Although the Church will deal with such men, we are to contend for the faith, once for all delivered to the saints, and reject those who seek to turn the grace of God into licentious living and deny the only true Despot, Jesus Christ (Jude 4).