What's Enoch got to do with the second coming of Christ?
Elijah and Enoch (ancestor of Noah) - an icon 17th cent., Historic Museum in Sanok, Poland (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) “And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints.” ( Jude 1:14 ) There are two Enochs in the First Age of the world. One is a son of Cain ( Genesis 4:17 ), and the other is a seventh-generation descendant of Adam through his son Seth ( Genesis 5 ). Jude makes very clear which one he means. Luke references Enoch in his genealogy of the Lord Jesus ( Luke 3:37 ), also indicating that this Enoch is important to remember. Enoch was the father of Methuselah , who was the grandfather of Noah. Although the Bible does not mention it, several of the early church scholars allude to a Book of Enoch and cite passages from it about the awful days before the world was destroyed by the great Flood. Perhaps the most startling fact recorded about Enoch is that he “was translated that he should not se