Just curious then, if not profitable for prophetic revelation then why does St.Jude quote it in his epistle?
St.Jude(1:14): "Now of these Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying: Behold, the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints:"
Did Jude quote from the book of Enoch, is this a reliable book?
Enoch was a important person mentioned in Genesis 5:24. Enoch was the 7th from Adam, the son of Jared (Gen. 5:18) and the father of Methuselah (5:21; Luke 3:37). After the birth of Methuselah at 65, he lived 300 more years. Gen 5:23-24 “So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.”
What is the meaning of God took him? Heb. 11:5 “By faith Enoch was taken away
so that he did not see death, "and was not found, because God had taken him"; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
He was transported into heaven without dying. With Enoch was conveyed the teaching of both heaven and immortality.
The book of Enoch is non-Biblical and pseudepigraphical (what we have today is not written by Enoch).
The Book of Enoch: “Behold, he comes with
ten thousands of his saints, to
execute judgment upon them, and destroy the wicked, and reprove all the
carnal for everything which the
sinful and
ungodly have done, and committed against him.”
Jude he quotes from a prophecy of Enoch; Jude 1:14 Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes
with ten thousands of His saints.” Jude’s reference the Book of Enoch is not exact, which does seem to be contrary to the conclusion he quoted from the book of Enoch..
The concept of ten thousand saints is not unique. In Deut. 33:2 And he said: "The LORD came from Sinai, and dawned on them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran, and
He came with ten thousands of saints; from His right hand came a fiery law for them.”
The word for saints here is actually qodesh in Hebrew- meaning holy ones;
hagiais muriasin, literally, "in or among holy myriads." The saints (holy ones) can mean angels or faithful human beings, or both.
