Finally, Brethren, Farewell — April 2026

It must have been a thrilling sermon for God’s people in Enoch’s age to hear. It is still thrilling for God’s people to read the small portion of that sermon as it is recorded for us by Jude.

There is more written about Enoch in the New Testament than what Moses wrote about Enoch in the Old Testament. Moses tells us that Enoch was the son of Jared and the father of Methuselah. Adam died only a few years before Enoch was taken to heaven. Moses tells us that “Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him” (Gen. 5:24). The New Testament tells us much more. In Hebrews 11:5–6 is the Spirit’s explanation of Moses’ briefer testimony:

5. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

6. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Enoch’s faith is the explanation of his sermon. The Spirit revealed that sermon to Jude. Jude did not copy it from any book or receive it by tradition. That sermon Jude applies to the false teachers of his day. Jude says that Enoch prophesied concerning false teachers. When Jude says that Enoch prophesied, Jude means that Enoch spoke his speech against the false teachers of his own day. There were men who had crept in unawares into Adam’s church, where Enoch was the preacher, and they brought in their damnable heresies. Specifically, Jude says earlier in his book that the false teachers turned the grace of God into lasciviousness. You must not understand that to mean that Jude is preaching against a certain class or form of heresy, but he is teaching what all false doctrine does. No matter the form of false doctrine, its purpose is to take the grace of God and to turn it in the service of man’s lusts and desires. Jude also says that the false teachers denied the only God and the Lord Jesus Christ. That is also what all false doctrine does, no matter its form. False teachers are not mistaken and benighted souls, but they are personally wicked men who were foreordained to that condemnation.

Against such false teachers Enoch was moved with indignation, and he comforted the church over against them and all their ungodly deeds and their hard speeches that they ungodly spoke against Christ. When the false teachers speak the lie, they speak against Christ. And Enoch said, “The Lord is coming!” Enoch meant Jesus Christ. Enoch in his day saw the day of Christ, and he comforted the church in the Lord’s certain judgments on false teachers and their false doctrine and wicked lives. Enoch’s words Jude applied to his day. And we apply them to our day. Here is the comfort of the church: “Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints!” Then the Lord will contend for his own truth against the pious-sounding frauds, who with their lies deny Christ and in their attack on the truth speak against him.