What does Jude 1:24 mean?

Verse 24 emphasizes the truth that believers are on the winning side. Apostates cannot destroy our faith or knock us out of the Christian race. God has the power to keep us upright and at the end of the race present us without fault to His glorious self. Jesus, the Good Shepherd, offered these encouraging words: "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand" (John 10:27–29).

The prospect of being kept and presented faultless in heaven would encourage Jude's readers to patiently run the race and to keep looking onto Jesus (Hebrews 12:1–2). Ephesians 5:27 also anticipates the time when Jesus presents the church to himself "in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish." The apostle John also takes a look forward to seeing Jesus face to face. At that time we will be completely like Him—sinless—for "we shall see him as he is" (1 John 3:2).