"25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time[a] and now and forever. Amen."
At the time i read this in 2013, I was struck by the reverse description I was expecting,
"to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord..."
Isn't Jesus the Christ our Savior? But this says G^d, our Savior.
Isn't G^d our L^rd? But this says Jesus the Christ our L^rd.
Did Jude get confused? I don't think so.
I really thing the Holy Spirit here is helping us grasp, but still not fully understand, the Trinity. Indeed G^d the Father is our Savior, and Jesus the Christ is really our L^rd--because of the Trinity. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit--not 3 G^Ds, but ONE G^d in three Persons. Yeah, I confess I still don't grasp the Trinity, but I do know the Trinity is our G^d.
So we finish up with these two points, "...be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority...". G^d is totally deserving of all these. Clearly He is Glory, He is Majesty. G^d personifies these two noun-adjectives. He has Dominion and Authority--clearly because He, or rather THEY, spoke the world into existence. And, in fact, they are fully deserving of ALL glory, majesty, dominion, and authority. There is plenty of Scriptures to back up that idea.
And finally, "...before all time and now and forever. Amen." We always struggle with the Trinity, and we are so locked into time, that we also struggle with the idea of a G^d unbound by time. God was before all--including time itself. He is Present in this present of present time. And He forever will be. And each "He" represents the entire Trinity.
G^d doesn't need many words to preach us a sermon, does They?
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