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:'''''Enoch was the seventh from Noah'''. Enoch. There catches the serpent's seed. For, '''if Cain was Abel's son, then he was the eighth'''. | :'''''Enoch was the seventh from Noah'''. Enoch. There catches the serpent's seed. For, '''if Cain was Abel's son, then he was the eighth'''. | ||
William Branham's statement makes no sense. Now perhaps he meant to say - "if Cain was Adam's son, then he was the eighth" - but this makes no sense either. | |||
The real problem is that William Branham didn't understand genealogy, and he did not understand why Jude needed to mention this. | |||
It is important to note that there were two Enochs in this period, both probably living at the same time, and that one was the seventh descendant from Adam through the line of Seth, while the other was the third descendant from Adam through the line of Cain. The Enoch who descended from Adam through the line of Seth was godly. But the Enoch who descended from Adam through the line of Cain was godless. He is the devil’s Enoch. So Jude’s identification of Enoch as the seventh from Adam is a way of distinguishing the two. <ref>James Montgomery Boice, Genesis: An Expositional Commentary, 284 (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998) </ref> | It is important to note that there were two Enochs in this period, both probably living at the same time, and that one was the seventh descendant from Adam through the line of Seth, while the other was the third descendant from Adam through the line of Cain. The Enoch who descended from Adam through the line of Seth was godly. But the Enoch who descended from Adam through the line of Cain was godless. He is the devil’s Enoch. So Jude’s identification of Enoch as the seventh from Adam is a way of distinguishing the two. <ref>James Montgomery Boice, Genesis: An Expositional Commentary, 284 (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998) </ref> | ||