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According to the bible Enoch walked with God (Gen5:22). The Great-Grandfather of Noah also provided the earliest known apocalypse of the Jewish tradition. The BOOK OF ENOCH was effectively treated as canonical by the very early Church. Fathers including Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus and Tertullian believed it to be inspired and written by Enoch himself. Even those such as Augustine who were instrumental in ensuring it was ultimately rejected by most of Christendom acknowledged it to be divinely inspired, principally in view of its citing in New Testament Jude. And its opening verse suggests it was never Gods intention that the book be canonical to be focussed on by the churches through their history; rather, it was to be a blessing to the generation of Christians who would live to see the second coming of Christ.

In Week 7 of Enochs Apocalypse, the patriarch foretold that a seven-part instruction concerning Gods providential intentions towards His whole creation would be provided. Those who received it and acted upon it would be the elect righteous of the eternal plant of righteousness. That is the generation of saints who would live to see Christs return. As to how this would come about: After they have written down truthfully all my words in their languages, not erring from my words but writing them down truthfully, then I know another mystery. Books are to be given to the righteous and the wise to become a cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom. To them shall the books be given, and they shall believe in them and rejoice over them, and then shall all the righteous who have learnt from them the TRUE paths of righteousness be recompensed [En104:10-14 my highlighting]

Such would not occur until just after Enochs writings had been faithfully set out and made available to many peoples in their own languages. This affirms the Book of Enoch to be prophecy indeed for his writings were concealed for centuries and only recently discovered in the caves of Qumran in the 1940s and widely translated. As for the other books that were to be freely distributed, that is unlikely to refer to the supplementary books of Enoch or indeed anything discovered at Qumran. They of themselves could never be a source of joy, wisdom and righteousness for the generation who would be living at the time of tribulations when the wicked and godless are to be removed (Enochs opening verse). For as with the canonical Old Testament, they do not contain or adequately reflect the teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ and the apostles set out in the New Testament.

So, either the books being referred to are entirely new revelation for the last days of the current age OR they are a clarification of earlier revelation that had been widely misinterpreted. It can only be the latter for everything the world and the church are intended to know and practice in the current age has already been provided in the New Testament and cannot be supplemented. That is where I believe The Little Book of Providence comes in. It is not new revelation; it is not primarily about the Book of Enoch, rather is a re-interpretation of the whole bible - part of a process that is fulfilling the prophecy of Enoch, and (I more tentatively surmise) the tenth chapter of Revelation. I am barely comfortable making such an audacious claim, but it arises from the series of extraordinary events that have occurred to me in recent years to which I have attested in my website (richard777.blog).

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The subject is divine providence and how since a bible-based theology was first systematized in the 4th/5th century its benevolence has been distorted by some erroneous doctrines that were incorporated. That was especially a result of Augustines influence, who after his dispute with Pelagius rejected the positive role for natural law evident in the writings of earlier Church Fathers. The title alludes to the Little Book referred to in Revelation - the message of the seventh messenger, which John, extraordinarily, was not permitted to record. Whether that mystery is related to the subject of this book will be for the reader to determine. The author believes it to be so in view of the extraordinary phenomena that led to its writing, alluded to in his earlier publication: Fellowship of the Secret".

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The Little Book of Providence

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