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Jude quotes 1 Enoch by name as prophecy, naming Enoch as the one who spoke it, reading a text outside the Hebrew canon as authoritative scripture. The passage he cites reshapes Deuteronomy 33 into a scene of final judgment.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
1 Enoch 1:9
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
6 The high mountains will shake, the hills will be leveled, and they will melt like wax before the fire 7 The earth will be completely torn apart, and everything on it will perish, and there will be judgment upon all people. 8 But with the righteous, He will establish peace. He will protect the chosen, and mercy will be upon them. They will all belong to God, prosper, and be blessed. He will aid them, and light will shine for them, and He will make peace with them. 9 Look! He comes with tens of thousands of His holy ones to pass judgment upon all, to annihilate all the wicked, to convict every soul of all the godless deeds they have committed, and of all the harsh words that godless sinners have spoken against Him.
Date: 300 BCE – 100 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
Jude 1:14
New Testament
14 Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying, “Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones, 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” 16 These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain. 17 But you, dear friends—recall the predictions foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18 For they said to you, “At the end of time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.” 19 These people are divisive, worldly, devoid of the Spirit.
Date: 60–80 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... The longest and only unambiguous quotation in the Epistle of Jude is not from an Old Testament book but rather from 1 Enoch. There are a couple of Old Testament allusions in the Jude text. Enoch is acknowledged to be “seventh from Adam” (14), and, according to the Old Testament, counting inclusively, he is. The image of God coming with his angelic hosts (14) is drawn from Deuteronomy 33:2 ... This is a colorful metaphorical description of the theophany at Sinai. The “holy ones” probably are angels, though this is less than certain because “holy ones” in the ensuing verse (33:3) clearly refers to God’s people. Nevertheless, the language is picked up by 1 Enoch 1:9 and then cited here in Jude to conjure up the divine court coming for final judgment ..."
D. A. Carson, "Jude" in Beale, G. K., and D. A. Carson, editors. Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007), 2429.
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Is it true Enoch received a prophecy that the flood would come at the time of the death of his son Methuselah?
Is it true Enoch received a prophecy that the flood would come at the time of the death of his son Methuselah?Love these powerful quotes from the New and Old Testament of Orthodox Christians. D.A. Carson's statement doesn't make sense, since faithful believers before Jesus obviously embraced Enoch as Old Testament book that was miraculously translated by 6 trusted Jewish scholars of each of the 12 tribes wh ...
Love these powerful quotes from the New and Old Testament of Orthodox Christians. D.A. Carson's statement doesn't make sense, since faithful believers before Jesus obviously embraced Enoch as Old Testament book that was miraculously translated by 6 trusted Jewish scholars of each of the 12 tribes when ordered by Ptolemy 2nd to translate the Hebrew Bible of their time to Greek. The Septuagint continued to be translated by faithful Jews until 100 years before God became Man and lived with us as one of us, Fully God Fully Man Jesus Christ. The 'Old' Testament of Jesus and The Orthodox faithful Apostles and their direct disciples and trusted pastors and martyrs included Enoch. It is sad that some of the protestant reformers who rightly struggled with Roman heresies and manmade traditions, threw out the baby with the bathwater by even trying to tear out James from the Bible and throw it down the river and trying to reduce New Testament books like Jude and John's epistles into secondary less inspired sections of their modernized 'bibles'. But from the time of Christ to present, the faithful Orthodox Christians have continued to quote from the Holy Spirit gifted Septuagint. That's why so much of the New Testament quotes and even some of the qumran caves discoveries confirm the trustworthiness of the Septuagint Greek 'old' Testament, rather than the antichrist Jewish attempts to twist the Bible in their masoertic texts.Pray all faithful Christians will unite in honoring all of God's Word and heed the warning of Revelations 22. None of us have the right to throw out Books of the Bible, even if the Word of God disagrees with modern manmade traditional denominations that contradict His unerring infallible Word.
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If you read Michael Heiser's book or video, called The Unseen Realm by Dr. Michael Heiser, it will open up your understanding of the WHOLE message of the Bible!! 😌🙏😊Watch it prayerfully!I need to find the original Book of Enoch, as I'm already studying the King James Holy Bible. Can you help me find a hardback copy of it? Thank you for your help and the research you've done. It's deeply appreciated.
I need to find the original Book of Enoch, as I'm already studying the King James Holy Bible. Can you help me find a hardback copy of it? Thank you for your help and the research you've done. It's deeply appreciated.Thank you for this interesting article! Very useful information.
Thank you for this interesting article! Very useful information.The book of Jude says Enoch prophesied not that it is written, and how did his writings survive the flood?
The book of Jude says Enoch prophesied not that it is written, and how did his writings survive the flood?