Jude 14 JUDGMENT PREDICTED The Enoch referred to in the book of Jude, is definitely not the son of Cain because the Spirit of God specifically states he was the Enoch of the line of Seth who was the "seventh from Adam." Adam was the first - Enoch was the seventh generation. During those years evil became universal even though Adam was alive and likely would have known Enoch. These two men and other people of faith, watched the deterioration of human attitude toward God, increasing acts of evil, decline of morality, and knew coming judgment for sin was inevitable. Whether the message of Enoch was a quotation from the book of Enoch in the apocrypha or from some other source isn't as important as the fact contained in the message. The Holy Spirit has made a plain statement through Jude the fact that there is judgment ahead when the Lord comes.
By referencing Enoch as the source of this statement, Jude is establishing a number of important things. Enoch was a man of faith who "pleased God." He was in a friendly relationship with God that affected his conduct in an evil age. It may have been the birth of his son, Methuselah when he was sixty-five years old that made a change in his life. In some way it was revealed to him that judgment was coming when Methuselah died. There is definitely a payday for sin coming. The days he lived in were similar to the days of Jude - and our day! Great wickedness abounds in personal, family, religious and national life. There is rejection of God's plans and purposes in all areas of human life. Deception and deliberate misrepresentation of standards established by God are on every hand.
Enoch did not "taste" death. He was not personally acquainted with death. His removal from earth when God "took him" helps us understand a few things in relation to the future. First of all, there is a future - another world in the sense of existence, not in the sense of planet earth. There is also another body that is changed to live and experience life in that other world where "tens [of] thousands" of God's people exist with the Lord. There is coming a time of accounting, of facing responsibility for the things we have done. There is a continuing existence after that time of accounting. With these reasons and many more known and unknown, there is a great incentive for believers to live holy, righteous and godly lives.
The coming of the Lord has more than one aspect contained in the overall event. There is the coming of the Lord for living believers and the bodies of those who have already passed on who were saved during this church age. It is known as "the rapture" (catching up) of the church. At the end of the tribulation the Lord will "be revealed" to the whole world as the King coming to reign over the earth for one thousand years of peace. Beyond that time there will then come the final judgment of the Great White Throne takes place. When the Lord comes there will coming with Him a great multitude of those who are righteous because of their faith in Him as Savior, Lord and King. He will be "the Righteous Judge," "the Judge of all the earth" who will judge in perfect righteousness because He is perfectly righteous Himself. His judgment is now and always "just judgment" that leaves no recourse to spurious defense that has no basis.
Mercy has been extended for years, and there is opportunity to repent of sin and accept the "pardon freely offered" to all who will believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved from coming judgment. The practice of rejecting God's grace has become so widespread that it is popular today to even reject the existence of God. it happened in the days of Enoch and Noah. The doctrines of apostasy were plaguing God's people in the days of Jude and the early church. Today it is common for those living in atheistic societies and countries to deny the existence of God, and now it has spread into Christendom. Even some of those who are professed "Christian ministers" are skeptics who teach Christianity is simply a template for human behavior. In a coming day angels and believers will accompany our Lord Jesus Christ when He comes to "execute judgment" on all who are ungodly.
Look on, look up, take a good look around - Where can those of faith be found - Who know that soon the trumpet will sound - When the Lord comes with all His saints?
Evidences of doubt and apostasy Are in our world for everyone to see. True judgment will come dealing righteously- When the Lord comes with His saints.
Be steadfast, do not move from what is right, Even though darkness threatens to obscure the light. Soon faith will give way to purified sight -
When the Lord comes with all His saints.
"Father, I anticipate the rapture of the church at any moment. As I think of the day when "the brightness of His coming" will expose all the unrighteousness in the world in the world for what it is, and our Lord will be revealed to all for who He is , I can surely say now, 'Even so, come Lord Jesus.' Amen."
Enoch’s prophecy was clear and revealed by the Holy Spirit. The spurious book of Enoch was probably written after the book of Jude. The prophecy of the COMING OF THE LORD Enoch spoke of, will have a partial fulfillment after the Tribulation but these verses will have complete fulfillment after the final judgment of the GREAT WHITE THRONE. Four times “ungodly” is used. The people are ungodly; their deeds are ungodly; the performance of these deeds is ungodly; the blasphemies are ungodly.