Angels do not know things to come, the Lord Alone knows them, and anyone to whom He sees fit to reveal them. Formerly I felt it as something to be abhorred when certain ones wanted to know things to come, for then some think they know whether that something is true or not, as people on earth are apt to do. But in the last times, for many reasons miracles do not take place, nor are things to come foretold. Just one reason I am permitted to bring forward, which is that the angels, in order to have happiness, must not know at all what the future holds, for the Lord looks ahead for them, what they may think at every moment. It is as the Lord said, that they should not be anxious about the future [Matt. 6:34]. Furthermore, knowledge of the future, which spirits are most eager to have, would involve very many things that would upset them, and upset order. Therefore it is also entirely contrary to the way spirits and angels are governed: they themselves should take nothing of what is their own, except what is permitted them. 1748, 10 June.