The Grands Letter (3 John/GLJ)
Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D. on April 25, 2026 5:03 am (CST)
Dear Grands,
3 John 1:5-10, “Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.
6 And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,
7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
8 Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties.
9 But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
10 But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.”
Who knows how many people listened the other day when warning words from an American ship were delivered to an Iranian vessel: “Evacuate the engine room!” Yet, upon refusal, the ship was attacked and stilled in the water.
Notice carefully that prior to their destruction, the people in verse five above “did not believe” the instruction they were given. It was not that they did not know; they elected to ignore the instruction. The same was true of many angels and the people of Sodom and Gomorrah and adjacent cities. In each case, those electing to reject the warning were ultimately destroyed.
God is a God of love! He desires everyone to be saved. Yet, man is saved by adhering to God’s instructions! There is no other way! Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth! “The LORD has borne His holy arm in the sight of all the nations, that all the ends of the earth may see the salvation of our God” (Isa. 52:10). Are you trusting in Him?
Heartily in Christ,
Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
United States of America
“We will never know that Christ is all we need, until He becomes all that we have.” –Corrie ten Boom
