Levi’s angelic guide contrasts the deep reverence with which these heavenly forces give God proper glory with the ignorant irreverence of the majority of human beings, who “do not perceive these things, and they sin and provoke the Most High” (T. Levi 3.10). Even after God’s judgments begin to be revealed, Levi’s angelic guide predicts, human beings “will be unbelieving and persist in their iniquities” (T. Levi 4.1; cf. Rev 9:20–21; 16:9, 11).
