IMITATE THEIR FAITH/ENOCH -ENOCH "PROPHESIED ABOUT THEM"

Enoch may have felt lonely as man of faith in such a faithless world. But did his God, Jehovah take notice of him? He did. The day came when Jehovah communicated with this faithful servant of his. God gave Enoch a message to deliver to the people of his day. He thus made Enoch a prophet, the first one whose message is revealed in the Bible We know of this because Jude, a half-brother of Jesus, was inspired to write down Enoch's prophetic words many centuries later.

What was Enoch's prophecy? It went as follows: "Look! Jehovah came with his holy myriads to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly concerning all their ungodly deeds that they did in an ungodly way and concerning all the shocking things that ungodly sinners spoke against him." (Jude 14,15) Now the first thing you may notice is that Enoch spoke in the past tense, as if God had already done what the prophecy describes. That is a pattern that many prophecies thereafter followed. The idea is this: The prophet is speaking of something that is so certain to occur that it may be described as if it has already happened! - ISAIAH 46:10. 

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