Jude 1:1 - Kept by Jesus Christ?

Does Jude 1:1 have conditions?

Jude 1:1: "Jude, (a) slave (of) Jesus Christ and brother (of) James, (to) the called (ones) having-been-loved by God (the) Father and KEPT (by) Jesus Christ"

Conditions:

Jude wrote to the ones "KEPT (by) Jesus Christ" (Jude 1:1). 

The Greek word for "KEPT" (Jude 1:1) is in the perfect tense, which means an action viewed as having been completed in the past, yet having results occurring in the present. With the perfect tense it is not impossible that results occurring in the present could cease to happen at some point. 

Is being "KEPT (by) Jesus Christ" (Jude 1:1) merely a past event that would never cease to have its results occurring in the future? 

There may be indications elsewhere that being "KEPT (by) Jesus Christ" (Jude 1:1) would not merely be a past event that could never cease to have its results occurring in any future point.

The Greek verbs for "having-been-loved" (Jude 1:1) and "KEPT" (Jude 1:1) are both in the Perfect Passive Participle. Even though they were described as "having-been-loved" (Jude 1:1) in the perfect tense, which would mean that this action would have been completed in the past (with results occurring in the present), nothing would indicate that they would not still be loved in the present. In the same way, nothing would indicate that they would not still need to be "KEPT" (Jude 1:1) in the present as well.

Paul wrote "(to) the church (of the) Thessalonians" (1 Thessalonians 1:1): "may your whole spirit and soul and body BE-KEPT faultlessly at the coming (of) our Lord Jesus" (1 Thessalonians 5:23). 

The Greek verb for "BE-KEPT" (1 Thessalonians 5:23) is in the optative mood, which expresses a wish or desire for an action to occur in which the completion of such can be subject to doubts. 

Here a wish or desire is expressed that those of the church of the Thessalonians may "BE-KEPT" (1 Thessalonians 5:23), which suggests that nothing that happened in their past would have led the author to assume that they would not need to "BE-KEPT" in their future at the coming of the Lord Jesus (otherwise he would not have expressed this wish or desire for their future).

For more details on this passage, click on the following article:

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 - Kept faultlessly?

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