Jude quotes Enoch: 'The Lord is coming with myriads of his holy ones to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly.' It's striking that Jude uses an apocryphal source. He's not bound by canon. He's concerned with truth.
The prophecy focuses on ungodly people who speak against the Lord, follow their own ungodly desires, and flatter others for advantage. Jude is describing false teachers. Not heretics arguing fine points of theology. Deceivers using deception for personal gain.
The comfort is that judgment's coming. Not because Jude's vengeful, but because injustice won't have the final word. The people being misled will eventually see clearly. The deceivers will be exposed. That's encouraging to the people being harmed by false teaching.
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