Jude 1:14, 15 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints,… I. THE PROPHET. "And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied." 1. He was a preeminently holy man, who was translated to heaven without dying. 2. His descent is here mentioned, (1) partly to indicate the antiquity of his prophecy, as going back to the first days of man on earth; (2) partly to distinguish him from Enoch the son of Cain; (3) partly also to show the zeal of Enoch against wickedness in those early times. He was the seventh from Adam, reckoning by generations. II. HIS PROPHECY. It is the coming of Christ to judgment. "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones." We have here the historic tense of prophecy. 1. The Lord comes from heaven. "The Lord himself shall descend from heaven" to judge the world. 2. It will be in the end of the world, in a day utterly unknown to man or angel. 3. He will be accompanied by ten thousands of his saints, who will sit with him as assessors (1 Corinthians 6:3). "The saints shall appear with him in glory." They are called his saints, because they are so by redemption and by service. 4. This second advent is to execute judgment and convict the ungodly. (1) The last judgment is to be regarded as a matter of the greatest certainty. (2) It is foolish to expect an escape from judgment through secrecy. (3) Words will be judged as well as deeds. "All the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him." Sinners reproach, mock, and condemn the just. The piety of the just does not exempt them from severe aspersions. Christ regards the words spoken against his disciples as spoken against himself. (4) The judgment will take account of the manner or motive of transgression. "Works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought." (a) The wicked devise mischief (Proverbs 6:14). (b) They delight and take pleasure in it (Proverbs 10:30). (c) They persist in transgression in the teeth of all warnings. (d) Their sin does not spring from mere infirmity like the sin of the righteous. (5) The true interest as well as the highest wisdom of the sinner is to make a friend of the Lord against the day of judgment. - T.C. Parallel Verses KJV: And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, |
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