Jude 1:14-15 (ESV)
It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
Jude is writing about false teachers who have entered into the church and are attempting to lead others astray with their vain and selfish philosophy. Their false belief system had taught them that the material world (body) was separate from the spiritual world (soul). Therefore as long as they believed right in their soul they could do whatever they wanted with their body. Jude uses repetition to emphasize the ungodly nature of this belief. Jude makes sure the true believers in the church knew that the end of false belief is ungodly living. Jude wants them to know that judgment is coming upon these false teachers. To illustrates his point, Jude sites an old prophetic message from the book of Enoch. The book of Enoch was not included in the cannon of scripture (that is a topic for another day). But even though the book was not inspired scripture, Jude uses it to illustrate his point. He is using literature of the day that the readers of his letter would understand. Paul did the same thing on Mars Hill in Acts 17. What Jude wants the reader to know is that bad doctrine creates ungodly living that will end in God’s judgment. That means if you want to correct ungodly living and avoid God’s judgment you have to get back to good doctrine: The point of his book. True doctrine corrects false living and prevents God’s judgment.
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