Jude 1:14 meaning and explanation

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones

Jude 1:14, Berean Standard Bible

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Jude is warning his readers about false teachers who had slipped into their fellowship, and he cites Enoch as a witness against them. Enoch is the seventh generation from Adam in Genesis 5, and Jude quotes a prophecy not found in the Old Testament, likely from a Jewish writing known as 1 Enoch that his first readers knew.

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