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Secrets of Enoch: Chapter XXIV

Of the great secrets of God, which God revealed and told to Enoch, and spoke with him face to face.

1.AND the Lord summoned me, and said to me: ‘Enoch, sit down on my left with Gabriel.’

2.And I bowed down to the Lord, and the Lord spoke to me: Enoch, beloved, all thou seest, all things that are standing finished I tell to thee even before the very beginning, all that I created from non-being, and visible things from invisible.

3.Hear, Enoch, and take in these my words, for not to My angels have I told my secret, and I have not told them their rise, nor my endless realm, nor have they understood my creating, which I tell thee to-day.

4.For before all things were visible, I alone used to go about in the invisible things, like the sun from east to west, and from west to east.

5.But even the sun has peace in itself, while I found no peace, because I was creating all things, and I conceived the thought of placing foundations, and of creating visible creation.

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Why does God tell Enoch secrets He didn't tell the angels?

God summons Enoch to share

because God chose to reveal His creative secrets to a human intimate rather than to angels. The chapter says God spoke to Enoch

face to face

and that He had not told

His angels

their rise or

His endless realm.

This mirrors passages in Hebrews and 2 Peter where humans receive revelation about creation and judgment; here God’s decision places Enoch beside Gabriel and grants him knowledge of

all that I created from non-being,

showing intimacy and a unique human role in witnessing divine origins.

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