Jude 1:12-13
[12]These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead.
[13]They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
To demonstrate further that false teachers were like those mentioned earlier in Jude 1:11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. Apostates Depraved and Doomed
Jude portrayed them with several metaphors. He described them as spots, that is, submerged rocks that could wreck a ship. Love feasts were fellowship meals at which the Lords supper was observed. These heretics were shepherds who fed only themselves without any concerns for others. They were useless and full of empty promises like waterless cloud. Jude portrayed them as barren fruit trees and wild waves that deposited their refuse of shameful deeds on the shore of people lives. The heretics were also like wandering stars doomed to destruction. Some scholars hold that Jude was influenced here by Enoch. In this text the rebellion of heavenly beings caused the planets to wander or Jude was possibly thinking of the angels who fell Jude 1:6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; Angels falling down from heaven were sometimes pictured as falling stars Isaiah 14:12-15
[12]How you have fallen from heaven,
Morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
You who once laid low the nations!
[13]You said in your heart,
“I will ascend to the heavens;
I will raise my throne
Above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
On the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.
[14]I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”
[15]But you are brought down to the realm of the dead,
To the depths of the pit.
Revelation 9:1-11
[1]The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.
[2]When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss.
[3]And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.
[4]They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
[5]They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes.
[6]During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
[7]The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.
[8]Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.
[9]They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
[10]They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.
[11]They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).
Like disobedient angels deserted for eternal punishment, heretics are heading for eternal darkness