Jude 6 provides us with angelic examples of apostasy. Apostasy is defined as a departure from a previous held loyalty.
A close inspection of Jude 6 helps individuals see the correlation between angelic and human apostates.
6 and He has kept, with eternal chains in darkness for the judgment of the great day, angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling.
Jude 6 (HCSB)
God is in control. Hence, "He has kept" the apostate angels where they are now after their apostasy.
God is serious about His positioning of personalities; "angels who did not keep their own position".
Rebellion does not go unnoticed by God as seen by His statement that those apostate angels are being kept in darkness for the judgement of the great day.
Those angels are used primarily to portray their desertion from God.
Their fall was motivated by 2 major factors; Pride and Lust.
Their pride is depicted at Isaiah 14:12-15
12 Shining morning star,
H
ow you have fallen from the heavens!
You destroyer of nations,
you have been cut down to the ground.
13
You said to yourself:
“I will ascend to the heavens;
I will set up my throne
above the stars of God.
I will sit on the mount of the [gods’] assembly,
in the remotest parts of the North.
14 I will ascend above the highest clouds;
I will make myself like the • Most High .”
Isaiah 14:12-14 (HCSB)
Their lust is made known at Genesis 6:1-4 (most JW's are familiar with this account).
1 When mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them,
2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.
3 And the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever, because they are corrupt. Their days will be 120 years.”
4 The Nephilim were on the earth both in those days and afterwards, when the sons of God came to the daughters of man, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.
Gen 6:1-4 (HCSB)
Just as the rebellious angels removed God as their central figure of authority rebellious humans do the same when they remove the Bible as the center of their authority and rely on other means to determine their attitudes and conduct. Does Governing Body sound familiar here?
The rebellious angels wanted what they could receive from mankind rather than what they could give to mankind. They did this by lusting after the daughters of men. Rebellious humans also lust after what they can get rather than what they can give. A prime example is the 'earthly hope' of Jehovah's Witnesses. They lust after an earthly paradise so much so that they are willing to desert their own flesh and blood should they disagree with anything their center of authority advocates as truth.
Pride produces a general philosophy that the religion becomes a country club for its followers. Look at the general attitudes in a typical KH. It is all about where and who to go with after a meeting to socialise.
Lust produces apathy about spiritual matters. This is so very obvious in WT literature where every thing is geared towards lusting after the carrot of everlasting life in an earthly paradise. The conduct and attitudes of JW's is in direct correlation with their desire to be in that earthly paradise.
An examination of WT publications and doctrines show the WTBTS and the Governing Body are being kept in spiritual darkness by God.
Therefore, who really is apostate when biblical examples of apostasy are considered?