JUDE 12-13 ANALOGIES OF DESTRUCTION

Analogies are helpful to let us compare things or explain things. We have all kinds of comparisons and idioms.

It’s getting colder outside and some of you may have pulled out your hoodie and said something like, “I’m as snug as a bug in a rug,” to indicate you were warm and cozy.

You may have seen someone that looked nervous and you said something like, “He’s as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rockers.”

Another one some of you may have used before to describe someone that is not very helpful is that they are “as useful as a screen door on a submarine.”

One last one for you might be fitting if you’ve done something wrong - “He’s sweating like a sinner in church.”

All of these expressions help paint a mental picture of what we are trying to communicate. Jude did the same when he was referring to these false teachers that the church needed to be warned about. He gives a series of analogies of the destruction these false teachers can cause.