Jude 1:14
Jude 1:1414Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones
In the NWT this verse reads as a prophecy of Jehovah's coming in judgment, which fits the Watchtower's expectation of Armageddon executed by Jehovah through his appointed king. The quotation's source in 1 Enoch is not usually discussed. Because the printed text says "Jehovah," a Witness reading this verse has no reason to suspect that the identity of the one coming is contested at all.
Two separate things are worth drawing out here, and they point in different directions. On the canon: Jude is quoting 1 Enoch 1:9, a book nobody regards as Scripture. This is the standard example people reach for when they want to argue the canon was drawn arbitrarily. It does the opposite. Paul quotes pagan poets at and without anyone concluding their hymns are inspired. An inspired writer citing a true line from an uninspired source is ordinary practice, not a canonical claim. The early church recognised Scripture by apostolic origin, consistency with the faith received, and universal use across the churches — and Enoch failed those tests while Jude passed them, centuries before any modern organisation existed to rule on it. On the identity of the one coming: read the verse in a translation that keeps the Greek word. Jude wrote "the Lord came with his holy myriads," and everywhere else in the New Testament the one who comes in judgment with his holy ones is Jesus — , , . Compare , .
The NWT prints "Look! Jehovah came with his holy myriads." The Greek text of Jude reads kyrios, "Lord" — the divine name does not appear here, and Jude is quoting a Greek source rather than a Hebrew one. Substituting "Jehovah" settles by translation a question the text leaves open, and it settles it away from the New Testament's own pattern, in which the Lord who arrives with his holy myriads to judge is consistently the Son. A reader of the NWT cannot see that the choice was made, because the English gives no sign that the underlying word was "Lord."