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Jude is a Book of Enoch expert. Yes, he quotes Enoch 1:9, but he also delves into Enoch in 6 other places in his short epistle. That makes a perfect 7 times in which Jude alludes/refers/quotes from Enoch.
First, Jude calls Enoch a prophet despite the fact no explicit prophecy and no book of the prophecies of Enoch can be found in our 66-book Bible in the Western world. Jude alone, among the 40 or so writers of the Bible, mentions Enoch was a prophet. We could reason that Jude received this information about Enoch through direct revelation, however, the most obvious reason Jude makes this claim is found in the Book of Enoch itself which is literally filled with the purported prophecies of Enoch, including the prophecy which Jude quotes. So we can see the Epistle of Jude and the Book of Enoch are in agreement on this point. Enoch is to be numbered among the prophets of old.
Consider too, Jude 1:6 refers to, “angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling”. This is a reference to Enoch 15:3, which says, “Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal heaven?” In Enoch, the sin of the angels is results primarily from leaving their assigned place.
Further, Jude 1:6, relates these were angels which, “he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day” We see this outlined for us later in the book in Enoch 10:12, “Bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgment and of their consummation, till the judgment that is for ever and ever is consummated. In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: and to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever.” In Enoch, the angels who sinned are temporarily bound until the day of judgment, again agreeing with Jude.
Jude also tells us in Jude 1:6, the angels are bound, “...until the judgment of the great day”. The term “great day”, is used for the final day of judgment in Enoch 22:11, 54:6, and 84:4, “Michael, and Gabriel, and Raphael, and Phanuel shall take hold of them on that great day, and cast them on that day into the burning furnace, that the Lord of Spirits may take vengeance on them for their unrighteousness in becoming subject to Satan and leading astray those who dwell on the earth.” (Enoch 54:6). Jude then uses the same term.
In Jude 1:6-7, he says the sin of certain fallen angels was sexual immorality and that Sodom's sin was of the same character as those angels. We read, “Angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.” (NASB) The four Greek words in this passage, τὸν ὅμοιον τρόπον τούτοις, which the translators of the New American Standard Bible render as in the same way as these, connects the “gross immorality” and the going “after strange flesh” of the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, as being of the same character as the sin of certain angels. There’s no mistaking it, Jude believed the sin of these angels was sexual. The sexual nature of the angels' sin is described in Enoch 7, “All the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them.” On a side note, one might find it interesting that the men in Genesis 19, with whom the Sodomites were seeking to engage in sexual acts, were angels. Jude, once again agrees with Enoch.
There is another interesting connection in Jude 1:14. That verse oddly calculates Enoch as being the 7th from Adam, “It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied”. But to reckon it this way, Adam's generation has to be included in the seven generations. Enoch 60:8, reckons the generations in the identical fashion when Noah is quoted saying, “my grandfather was taken up, the seventh from Adam”.
Finally, in verses 14-15, Jude culminates his tribute to the Book of Enoch by quoting the it directly as being the source of a prophecy regarding the 2nd-coming of Jesus Christ, “Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.” The source of this quote can be found in Enoch 1:9.
For those keeping score, we have shown that Jude alludes to and/or quotes from not just Enoch 1:9, but also Enoch 7, 10:12, 15:3, 54:6, and 60:8. Besides this, the Epistle of Jude confirms the underlying thesis of the Book of Enoch, Enoch was considered to be a prophet. In this light then, it is no longer possible to state Jude did not accept the Book of Enoch as a whole. Rather, it appears the Book of Enoch was a favorite resource for the Apostle Jude.
How odd then, the rhetorical acrobatics one has to take in order to remove the clear reference to angelic carnality Jude describes.
First, Jude calls Enoch a prophet despite the fact no explicit prophecy and no book of the prophecies of Enoch can be found in our 66-book Bible in the Western world. Jude alone, among the 40 or so writers of the Bible, mentions Enoch was a prophet. We could reason that Jude received this information about Enoch through direct revelation, however, the most obvious reason Jude makes this claim is found in the Book of Enoch itself which is literally filled with the purported prophecies of Enoch, including the prophecy which Jude quotes. So we can see the Epistle of Jude and the Book of Enoch are in agreement on this point. Enoch is to be numbered among the prophets of old.
Consider too, Jude 1:6 refers to, “angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling”. This is a reference to Enoch 15:3, which says, “Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal heaven?” In Enoch, the sin of the angels is results primarily from leaving their assigned place.
Further, Jude 1:6, relates these were angels which, “he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day” We see this outlined for us later in the book in Enoch 10:12, “Bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgment and of their consummation, till the judgment that is for ever and ever is consummated. In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: and to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever.” In Enoch, the angels who sinned are temporarily bound until the day of judgment, again agreeing with Jude.
Jude also tells us in Jude 1:6, the angels are bound, “...until the judgment of the great day”. The term “great day”, is used for the final day of judgment in Enoch 22:11, 54:6, and 84:4, “Michael, and Gabriel, and Raphael, and Phanuel shall take hold of them on that great day, and cast them on that day into the burning furnace, that the Lord of Spirits may take vengeance on them for their unrighteousness in becoming subject to Satan and leading astray those who dwell on the earth.” (Enoch 54:6). Jude then uses the same term.
In Jude 1:6-7, he says the sin of certain fallen angels was sexual immorality and that Sodom's sin was of the same character as those angels. We read, “Angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.” (NASB) The four Greek words in this passage, τὸν ὅμοιον τρόπον τούτοις, which the translators of the New American Standard Bible render as in the same way as these, connects the “gross immorality” and the going “after strange flesh” of the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, as being of the same character as the sin of certain angels. There’s no mistaking it, Jude believed the sin of these angels was sexual. The sexual nature of the angels' sin is described in Enoch 7, “All the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them.” On a side note, one might find it interesting that the men in Genesis 19, with whom the Sodomites were seeking to engage in sexual acts, were angels. Jude, once again agrees with Enoch.
There is another interesting connection in Jude 1:14. That verse oddly calculates Enoch as being the 7th from Adam, “It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied”. But to reckon it this way, Adam's generation has to be included in the seven generations. Enoch 60:8, reckons the generations in the identical fashion when Noah is quoted saying, “my grandfather was taken up, the seventh from Adam”.
Finally, in verses 14-15, Jude culminates his tribute to the Book of Enoch by quoting the it directly as being the source of a prophecy regarding the 2nd-coming of Jesus Christ, “Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.” The source of this quote can be found in Enoch 1:9.
For those keeping score, we have shown that Jude alludes to and/or quotes from not just Enoch 1:9, but also Enoch 7, 10:12, 15:3, 54:6, and 60:8. Besides this, the Epistle of Jude confirms the underlying thesis of the Book of Enoch, Enoch was considered to be a prophet. In this light then, it is no longer possible to state Jude did not accept the Book of Enoch as a whole. Rather, it appears the Book of Enoch was a favorite resource for the Apostle Jude.
How odd then, the rhetorical acrobatics one has to take in order to remove the clear reference to angelic carnality Jude describes.
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