Remember too that Enoch was in the Bible for 500 years....

According to 1Th 4:14-15 those that return with Jesus are those who have died or fallen asleep. 

1Th. 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.  15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

Bro. James D Albright

On Mar 23, 2009, at 12:40 AM, Pamelia SongBird wrote:

In the epistle of Jude, Chapter 1, Verses 14-15, (KJV) he mentions a prophecy of Enoch dealing with the return of the Lord accompanied by ten thousands of His saints to execute judgment upon all.

Q. In the epistle of Jude, Chapter 1, Verses 14-15, (KJV) he mentions a prophecy of Enoch dealing with the return of the Lord accompanied by ten thousands of His saints to execute judgment upon all. Since those saints had to be in Heaven in order to accompany the Lord back to earth, isn’t this a prophesy describing the end of the Rapture period of the Church in Heaven and the Second Coming of Christ?

A. Indirectly, yes. The prophecy is actually about the 2nd coming,but as you say, for the saints to be with Him when He comes, they would have to have been taken up sometime earlier.

(Jude 1:14-15) -KJV

"And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."