20111127: Jude: Enoch

Jude 14: "And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying behold the Lord cometh with then thousands of his saints, to execute judgement uopn all, and to convince all that are ungodly amont them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken..."

This text from Jude mentioned Enoch , after Cain and Balaam- the badies

Life is always seen from the 2 sides of the coin. The good and the bad. The godly and the ungodly.

I believe God singled out Enoch here as an example of the godly one. 7 is a perfect number.  He is the number 7 from Adam.  He is Adam's grandson (through Seth), the son of Jared, the father of Methuselah, and the great-grandfather ofNoah.

Enoch is a preacher of righteousness in those days. He was special because he did not experience mortal death ascribed to Adam's other descendants.  In Gen 5:22, we were told "He walked with God"..and later he was not; for God took him.

In Gen 4, the ungodly line of Cain was listed vs the godly line of Seth.

In Gen 6, the ungodly multiplied, sinned continually that God decided to pick Noah, whose great grandfather was Enoch, to be saved from the coming destruction. The lineage of Seth are generations who called upon the name of God. And Like his great grandfather Enoch, Noah found grace in the Lord as he too walked with God.

Following Jude, Peter too mentioned about the ungodly in 2 Pet. V6 " turning cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them unto those that after should live ungodly"  But yet in v5 "And spared not the old world but saved Noah , the 8th person , a preacher of righteousness, bringing the flood upon the world of the ungodly"

Reflections

Are we in the days of Noah now? Luke 17 & Matt 24:37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 

Last month we saw Thailand inundated in water- about 1/3 of the world country- crippling the  economy and the way of life.  S'pore here is not spared as we got more flash floods than never before.

Are we prepared to receive the Lord coming back for us?

Are we people of righteousness living in accordance of what He expected of us?

Are we ready?