Big Judah Notebook
Big Judah Notebook
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THIS COLLECTION OF YOUR NOTES IS PRESENTED TO YOU BY
CASSANDRA LEE THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT
This Book of Notes is Dedicated to
Big Judah for your diligence in doing
what the Father has willed.
The Spirit
For the Father, the exalted one, they know [72] by his Will, which [is] the Spirit that breathes
through the members of the All and gives them a thought to search for the unknown, just as
somebody is moved by a
fragrance to seek the source of that fragrance—and the fragrance of the Father surpasses
such unworthy things.19 For its sweetness lets the
aeons sense an indescribable pleasure, and gives them the thought that they should be
united with the one who desires that they should know him in oneness, and that they should
assist one another through the spirit that is sown in them. They find themselves in a great
and powerful inbreathing where they are renewed in a speechless manner and are formed,
having no occasion to turn away through thoughtlessness from that in which they are placed.
For they do not speak but are silent about the glory of the Father, about him who has the
power to speak.
In a vision I have seen wisdom and there is no room on earth that can hold her.
She is graceful and at peace. She enters in glory and departs glorified through
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CHAPTER 1
Jeremiah 30:16-17
16 " 'But all who devour you will be devoured; all your enemies will
go into exile. Those who plunder you will be plundered; all who
make spoil of you I will despoil. 17 But I will restore you to health and
heal your wounds,' declares the LORD, 'because you are called an out,
cast, Zion for whom no one cares.’
The glory of the unbegotten will appear and fill all the eternal
realms when the prophets and the writings of rulers are revealed
and fulfilled by those who are called perfect. Those who have not be,
come perfect in the unbegotten Father will receive glory in their
realms and the kingdoms of immortals, but they will never enter the
kingless realm. All must return to the place where they came from.
By what they do and what they know all of them will reveal their na,
tures.
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Matthew 25:14-30
15 "So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination
that causes desolation,' spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let
the reader understand— 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the
mountains. 17 Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything
out of the house. 18 Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak.
19 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and
nursing mothers! 20 Pray that your flight will not take place in winter
or on the Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great distress, unequaled
from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled
again.
22 "If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but
for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. 23 At that time
if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Messiah!' or, 'There he is!' do
not believe it. 24 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear
and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even
the elect. 25 See, I have told you ahead of time.
26 "So if anyone tells you, 'There he is, out in the wilderness,' do
not go out; or, 'Here he is, in the inner rooms,' do not believe it. 27
For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west,
so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 28 Wherever there is
a carcass, there the vultures will gather.
29 "Immediately after the distress of those days" 'the sun will be
darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from
the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'
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30 "Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And
then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of
Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.
Isaiah 49:6
Jeremiah 9:23
23 This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise boast of their wis,
dom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their
riches,
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CHAPTER 2
Predestined to
Salvation
Matthew 7:17-23
17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree
bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree
cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is
cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will rec,
ognize them. 21 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter
the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Fa,
ther who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord,
did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out de,
mons and in your name perform many miracles?' 23 Then I will tell
them plainly, 'I never knew you 23 Then I will tell them plainly, 'I
never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
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The thought of those who are saved shall not perish. The mind of
those who have known him shall not perish. Therefore, we are
elected to salvation and redemption since we are predestined from
the beginning not to fall into the foolishness of those who are with,
out knowledge, but we shall enter into the wisdom of those who
have known the Truth.
2 Thessalonians 2:11
11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that
they will believe the lie
John 8:44
44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out
your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not
holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he
speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
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CHAPTER 3
4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and
these members do not all have the same function,
Testament of Naphtali
2. And since I was swift on my feet like a deer, my father Jacob ap,
pointed me for all errands and messages, and as a deer(2) did he give
me his blessing. For as the potter knoweth the vessel, what it con,
taineth, and bringeth clay thereto, so also doth the Lord make the
body in accordance with the spirit, and according to the capacity of
the body doth He implant the spirit, and the one is not deficient
from the other by a third part of a hair; for by weight, and measure,
and rule is every creature of the Most High.(3) And as the potter
knoweth the use of each vessel, whereto it sufficeth, so also doth the
Lord know the body, how far it is capable for goodness, and when it
beginneth in evil; for there is no created thing and no thought which
the Lord knoweth not, for He created every man after His own image.
As man's strength, so also is his work; and as his mind, so also is his
work; and as his purpose, so also is his doing; as his heart, so also is
his mouth; as his eye, so also is his sleep; as his soul, so also is his
word, either in the law of the Lord or in the law of Beliar. And as
there is a division between light and darkness, between seeing and
hearing, so also is there a division between man and man, and be,
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tween woman and woman; neither is it to be said that there is any su,
periority in anything, either of the face or of other like things.(4) For
God made all things good in their order, the five senses in the head,
and He joineth on the neck to the head, the hair also for comeliness,
the heart moreover for understanding, the belly for the dividing of
the stomach, the calamus(5) for health, the liver for wrath, the gall for
bitterness. the spleen for laughter, the reins for craftiness, the loins
for power, the ribs for containing, the back for strength, and so
forth. So then, my children, be ye orderly unto good things in the
fear of God, and do nothing disorderly in scorn or out of its due sea,
son. For if thou bid the eye to hear, it cannot; so neither in darkness
can ye do the works of light.
Proverbs 25:2
Corinthians 12:14-20
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part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, but
one body.
2 Peter 3:15-16
15 Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as
our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave
him. 16 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of
these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to under,
stand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the
other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
2 Esdras 14:46
“But keep the seventy last, that thou mayest deliver them only to
such as be wise among the people:”
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CHAPTER 4
Enoch Prophesied
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The Eagle is Esau
1. And I observed during the time, that thus thirty-seven shep,
herds were overlooking, all of whom finished in their respective peri,
ods as the first. Others then received them into their hands, that
they might overlook them in their respective periods, every shep,
herd in his own period.
2. Afterwards I saw in the vision, that all the birds of heaven ar,
rived; eagles, the avest, kites and ravens. The eagle instructed them
all.
3. They began to devour the sheep, to peck out their eyes, and to
eat up their bodies.
4. The sheep then cried out; for their bodies were devoured by the
birds.
6. And I looked, while the sheep were eaten up by the dogs, by the
eagles, and by the kites. They neither left them their body, nor their
skin, nor their muscles, until their bones alone remained; until their
bones fell upon the ground. And the sheep became diminished.
Obadiah 1:2
2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art
greatly despised.
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3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest
in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his
heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy
nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
Psalms 83:118
1 O God, do not remain silent; do not turn a deaf ear, do not stand
aloof, O God.
2 See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads. 3
With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against
those you cherish. 4 "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a na,
tion, so that Israel's name is remembered no more." 5 With one mind
they plot together; they form an alliance against you—
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whose name is the LORD—that you alone are the Most High over all
the earth.
Ezekiel 37:3-7
3 He asked me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I said, "Sover,
eign LORD, you alone know."
Our soul is sick because she lives in a house of povery, and matter
strikes he eyes in order to blind her. For this reason the soul pur,
sues the word and applies it to her eyes as medicine, and she <opes>
her eyes and casts off [blindness]…..thought of…blindness…after
that, if such a one is in ignorance once again, that one is in com,
plete darkness and is a material being. That is why the soul al,
ways[takes] a word and applies it to her eyes as medicine, so that
she may be able to see. Then her light may overwhelm the foes that
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her, and she may blind them with her light, capture them in her pres,
ence, make them collapse in exhaustion, and act boldly with her
strength and her scepter.
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CHAPTER 5
Psalms 147:19-20
19 He has revealed his word to Jacob, his laws and decrees to Is,
rael. 20 He has done this for no other nation; they do not know his
laws. Praise the LORD.
Apocalypse of Adam
These are the revelations which Adam made known to Seth his
son, and his son taught his seed about them. This is the secret
knowledge of Adam which he imparted to Seth, which is the holy bap,
tism of those who know the eternal knowledge through the ones
born of the word and the imperishable illuminators, those who came
from the holy seed: Jesseus, Jessedekeus, [the living water]
Psalms 50:16-23
16 But to the wicked person, God says: "What right have you to re,
cite my laws or take my covenant on your lips? 17 You hate my in,
struction and cast my words behind you. 18 When you see a thief,
you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers.19 You use
your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit. 20 You sit
and testify against your brother and slander your own mother's son.
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21 When you did these things and I kept silent, you thought I was
exactly like you. But I now arraign you and set my accusations before
you. 22"Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to
pieces, with no one to rescue you 23 Those who sacrifice thank offer,
ings honor me, and to the blameless I will show my salvation."
1:1-2, 1 Peter to James, Peace be with you always from the Father of
all through Jesus Christ. 2 Knowing well that you, brother, eagerly
take pains about what is for the mutual benefit of us all, I earnestly
beseech you not to pass on to any one of the Gentiles the books of
my preachings which (here) forward to you, nor to any one of our
own tribe before probation.
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my opinion, to which indeed I never gave thought. 7 But if they
falsely assert such a thing while I am still alive, how much more after
my death will those who come later venture to do so? Gentiles have
made up there own rules
This is why we need the Holy Spirit to guide us into the Truth and
guide our thoughts
2 Esdras 14:45-48
45 And it came to pass, when the forty days were filled, that the
Highest spake, saying, The first that thou hast written publish
openly, that the worthy and unworthy may read it:
46 But keep the seventy last, that thou mayest deliver them only to
such as be wise among the people:
1 John 2:27
27 As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in
you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing
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teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not coun-
terfeit just as it has taught you, remain in him.
Matthew 16:15-19
16 Simon Peter answered,"You are the Messiah, the Son of the liv,
ing God." 17 Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for
this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in
heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will
build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 19 I will
give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on
earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will
be loosed in heaven." 20 Then he ordered his disciples not to tell any,
one that he was the Messiah.
2 Baruch 44:13-15
13 For these are they who shall inherit that time which has been
spoken of, And theirs is the inheritance of the promised time.
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The Treatise on Resurrection
The thought of those who are saved shall not perish. The mind of
those who have known him shall nor perish. Therefore, we are
elected to salvation and redemption since we are predestined from
the beginning not to fall into the foolishness of those who are with,
out knowledge, but we shall enter into the wisdom of those who
have known the Truth. Indeed, the Truth which is kept cannot be
abandoned, nor has it been.
Jeremiah 16:19
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CHAPTER 6
Others will wander from evil words and mysteries that lead peo,
ple astray. Some who do not understand the mysteries and speak of
what they do not understand will boast that the mystery of truth is
theirs alone. In arrogance {77} they will embrace pride and will envy
the immortal soul that has been used as down payment. For every
authority, principality, and power of the ages wants to be with the im,
mortal souls in the created world, in order that these powers, who do
not come from what exists and have forgotten who they are, may be
glorified by the immoral souls that do exist. The powers have not
been saved or shown the way by them, though they always have
wished to become imperishable. For if an immortal soul is empow,
ered by a spirit of thought, at cone it is joined by one of those who
were led astray.
2 Thessalonians 2:11-12
11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that
they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who
have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
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Matthew 5:13
13 "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness,
how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, ex,
cept to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.
Many others, who oppose truth and are messengers or error, will
ordain their error and their law against my pure thoughts. Since
they see from one perspective only, they think that food and evil
come from the same source. They do business in my word. And
they will establish harsh fate in which the generation of immoral
souls will run in vain, until my return. For the immortal souls will
surely remain among them. And I have forgiven the transgressions
into which they have fallen through their adversaries, and I have re,
deemed them from their slavery, to give them freedom.
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and ascends to him. And he knows in what manner he is called. (I
was called)
Ephesians 2:8-10
John 15:16
15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know
his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for every,
thing that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that
you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever
you ask in my name the Father will give you.
Isaiah 49:5
Matthew 25:31
31 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels
with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be
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gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from an,
other as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will
put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. 34 "Then the
King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my
Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since
the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me some,
thing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was
a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you
clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and
you came to visit me.' 37 "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord,
when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you
something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite
you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you
sick or in prison and go to visit you?' 40 "The King will reply, 'Truly I
tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and
sisters of mine, you did for me.' 41 "Then he will say to those on his
left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire pre,
pared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave
me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43
I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and
you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look
after me.' 44 "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hun,
gry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison,
and did not help you?' 45 "He will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you
did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.' 46
"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to
eternal life."
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Matthew 7:21
21 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the king,
dom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who
is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we
not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and
in your name perform many miracles?' 23 Then I will tell them
plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
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CHAPTER 7
Genesis 12:2-3
2 "I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will
make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those
who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples
on earth will be blessed through you."
As the vine is supported by the elm, so is the rich man helped by
the prayers of the poor.
AS I was walking into the field, and considered the elm and the
vine, and thought with myself of their fruits, an angel appeared unto
me, and said unto me; What is it that thou thinkest upon thus long
within thyself?
2 And I said unto him, Sir, I think of this vine and this elm because
their fruits are fair. And he said unto me; 3 These two trees are set
for a pattern to the servants of God.
3 And I said unto him, Sir, I would know in what the pattern of
these trees which thou mentionest, does consist. Hearken, saith he;
seest thou this vine and this elm; Sir, said I, I see them,
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4 This vine, saith he, is fruitful, but the elm is a tree without fruit.
Nevertheless this vine unless it were set by this elm, and supported
by it, would not bear much fruit; but lying along upon the ground,
would bear but ill fruit, because it did not hang upon the elm;
whereas, being supported upon the elm, it bears fruit both for itself
and for that.
5 See, therefore, how the elm gives no less, but rather more fruit,
than the vine. How, Sir, said I, does it bear more fruit than the vine?
Because, said he, the vine being supported upon the elm gives both
much and good fruit; whereas, if it lay along upon the ground, it
would bear but little, and that very ill too.
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and it represents the rich and poor man. I answered, Sir, make this
manifest unto me. Hear, said he; the rich man has wealth; howbeit to,
wards the Lord he is poor; for he is 1 taken up about his riches, and
prays but little to the Lord; and the prayers which he makes are lazy
and without force.
7 When, therefore, the rich man reaches out to the poor those
things which he wants, the poor man prays unto the Lord for the
rich; and God grants unto the rich man all good things, because the
poor man is rich in prayer; and his requests have great power with
the Lord.
8 Then the rich man ministers all things to the poor, because he
perceives that he is heard by the Lord: and he the more willingly and
without doubting, affords him what he wants, and takes care that
nothing be lacking to him.
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9 And the poor man gives thanks unto the Lord for the rich; be,
cause they do both their work from the Lord.
10 With men therefore, the elm is not thought to give any fruit;
and they know not neither understand that its company being added
to the vine, the vine bears a double increase, both for itself and for
the elm.
11 Even so the poor praying unto the Lord for the rich, are heard
by him; and their riches are increased, because they minister to the
poor of their wealth. They are therefore both made partakers of each
other's good works.
13 Happy are they who are rich, and perceive themselves to be in,
creased: for he that is sensible of this, will be able to minister some,
what to others
John 9:31
31 We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the
godly person who does his will.
1. Woe to them who act impiously, who laud and honour the word
of falsehood. You have been lost in perdition; and have never led a
virtuous life.
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3. And cause the heads of those who are not sinners to be trodden
down upon the earth.
Psalms 50:16
16 But to the wicked person, God says: "What right have you to re,
cite my laws or take my covenant on your lips? 17 You hate my in,
struction and cast my words behind you.
18 When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot
with adulterers. 19 You use your mouth for evil and harness your
tongue to deceit. 20 You sit and testify against your brother and slan,
der your own mother's son. 21 When you did these things and I kept
silent, you thought I was exactly like you. But I now arraign you and
set my accusations before you. 22 "Consider this, you who forget
God, or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you: 23 Those
who sacrifice thank offerings honor me, and to the blameless I will
show my salvation."
Proverbs 1:24-33
24 But since you refuse to listen when I call and no one pays atten,
tion when I stretch out my hand, 25 since you disregard all my advice
and do not accept my rebuke, 26 I in turn will laugh when disaster
strikes you; I will mock when calamity overtakes you—27 when calam,
ity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a
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whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you. 28 "Then they
will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not
find me, 29 since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear
the LORD. 30 Since they would not accept my advice and spurned my
rebuke, 31 they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the
fruit of their schemes. 32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill
them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; 33 but who,
ever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of
harm."
Revelation 3:9
9 I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim
to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come
and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.
Matthew 7:21-23
21 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the king,
dom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who
is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we
not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and
in your name perform many miracles?' 23 Then I will tell them
plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
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5 How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is
among the saints!
6 Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of
righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteous,
ness rose not upon us.
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CHAPTER 8
Job 9:24
24 When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, he blindfolds its
judges. If it is not he, then who is it? The Earth was given to the
wicked NIV
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the
faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he? KJV
2 Esdras 8:1-3
1 And he answered me, saying, The most High hath made this
world for many, but the world to come for few. 2 I will tell thee a si,
militude, Esdras; As when thou askest the earth, it shall say unto
thee, that it giveth much mould whereof earthen vessels are made,
but little dust that gold cometh of: even so is the course of this pre,
sent world.
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The Gospel of Thomas 56
56. Jesus said, "Whoever has come to know the world has discov,
ered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that person
the world is not worthy."
Live with Christ, and he will save you. For he is the true light and
the sun of life. Just as the visible son shines on physical eyes., so
Christ illuminates every mind and heart. For if one who is wicked
during his lifetime has an evil death, how much more so does one
who has a blind mind. For every blind person [remains incapable ] of
seeing it. [So I is] with people who do not have a sound mind. They
do no delight in acquiring the light of Christ, which, is reason.
That the spirits and prophets are to be tried by their works; and of
a twofold spirit.
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HE shewed me certain men sitting upon benches, and one sitting
in a chair: and he said unto me seest thou who sit upon the
benches? Sir, said I, I see them. He answered, They are the faithful;
and he who sits in the chair is an earthly spirit.
2 For he cometh not into 1 the assembly of the faithful, but avoids
it. But he joins himself to the doubtful and empty; and prophesies to
them in corners and hidden places; and pleases them by speaking ac,
cording to all the desires of their hearts.
Proverbs 28:1
1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are
bold as a lion.
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speak unto thee so shalt thou prove the prophet of God, and the
false prophet.
6 And first try the man who hath the spirit of God; because the
spirit which is from above is humble, and quiet; and departs from all
wickedness; and from the vain desires of the present world; and
makes himself more humble than all men; and answers to none
when he is asked; nor to every one singly: for the Spirit of God doth
not speak to a man when he will, but when God pleases.
1 John 4:1-6
1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see
whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out
into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that
confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and
every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the
spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in
the world already. 4 Little children, you are from God and have over,
come them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the
world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the
world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Whoever
knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to
us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
7 when therefore a man hath the Spirit of God shall come into the
church of the righteous, who have the faith of God, and they pray
unto the Lord; then the holy angel of God fills that man with the
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blessed Spirit, and he speaks in the congregation as he is moved of
God.
9 Hear now concerning the earthly spirit, which is empty and fool,
ish, and without virtue. And first of all the man who is supposed to
have the Spirit, (whereas he hath it not in reality), exalteth himself,
and desires to have the first seat, and is wicked, and full of words.
11 Should the Spirit of God receive reward and divine? It doth not
become a prophet of God so to do.
Micah 3:11
11 Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a
price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on
the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster
shall come upon us."
Matthew 10:8
8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy,
drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.
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2 Hermas Chapter XI.
12 Thus you see the life of each of these kind of prophets. Where,
fore prove that man by his life and works, who says that he hath the
Holy Spirit. And believe the Spirit which comes from God, and has
power as such. But believe not the earthly and empty spirit, which is
from the devil, in whom there is no faith nor virtue.
14 Sir, said I, how can this be done? For neither of those things
which you have mentioned, are possible to be done. And he an,
swered, Therefore as these things cannot be done, so is the earthly
spirit without virtue, and without effect.
17 So in like manner the least things which come from above, and
fall upon the earth, have great force. Wherefore join thyself to this
spirit, which has the power; and depart from the other which is
empty.
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Third Book of Hermas
SIMILITUDE III.
2 He answering, said unto me; These trees are like unto the men
who live in the present world. I replied: Sir, why are they like unto
dried trees? Because, said he, neither the righteous, nor unrighteous,
are known from one another; but all are alike in this present world.
4 As in the winter all the trees having lost their leaves, are like dry
trees; nor can it be discerned which are dry and which are green: so
in this present world neither the righteous nor wicked are discerned
from each other; but they are all alike.
1John 3:9
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Odes of Solomon Ode 8
9 Hear the word of truth, and receive the knowledge of the Most
High.
10 Your flesh has not known what I am saying to you neither have
your hearts known what I am showing to you.
15 For I do not turn away my face from them that are mine;
16 For I know them, and before they came into being I took knowl,
edge of them, and on their faces I set my seal:
Ephesians 4:30
30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were
sealed for the day of redemption.
2 Corinthians 1:20-22
20 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are
"Yes" in Christ. And so through him the "Amen" is spoken by us to
the glory of God. 21 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand
firm in Christ. He anointed us, 22 set his seal of ownership on us, and
put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to
come.
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Ephesians 2:8-10
John 8:43-44
43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable
to hear what I say. 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you
want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the
beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him.
When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the
father of lies.
SIMILITUDE IV.
As in the summer the living trees are distinguished from the dry
by their fruit and green leaves; so in the world to come the righteous
shall be distinguished from the unrighteous by their happiness.
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2 These trees, saith he, which are green, are the righteous which
shall possess the world to come. For the world to come, is the sum,
mer to the righteous; but to sinners it is the winter.
3 When, therefore, the mercy of the Lord shall shine forth, then
they who serve God shall be made manifest, and plain unto all. For
as in the summer the fruit of every tree is shown and made manifest,
so also the works of the righteous shall be declared and made mani,
fest, and they shall be restored in that world merry and joyful.
4 For the other 1 kind of men, namely the wicked, like the trees
which thou sawest dry, shall as such be found dry and without fruit
in that other world; and like dry wood shall be burnt; and it shall be
made manifest that they have done evil all the time of their life;
5 And they shall be burnt because they have sinned and have not
repented of their sins. And also all the other nations shall be burnt,
because they have not acknowledged God their Creator.
6 Do thou therefore bring forth good fruit, that in the summer thy
fruit may be known; and keep thyself from much business, and thou
shalt not offend. For they who are involved in much business, sin
much; because they are taken up with their affairs, and serve not
God.
7 And how can a man that does not serve God, ask anything of
God, and receive it? But they who serve him, ask and receive what
they desire.
8 But, if a man has only one thing to follow, he may serve God, be,
cause his mind is not taken off from God but he serves him with a
pure mind.
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9 If, therefore, thou shalt do this, thou mayest have fruit in the
world to come; and all, as many as shall do in like manner, shall
bring forth fruit.
Matthew 7:17-20
17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears
bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot
bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut
down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recog-
nize them.
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CHAPTER 9
Proverbs 25:2
Romans 3:23
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
For whosoever shall guard אתeth-the whole Torah, and yet offend
in one point, he is guilty of all. JAMES 2:10
But it shall come to pass, if you will not hearken unto the voice of
YAHUAH ELOHAYKA, to guard to do אתeth-all his commandments
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and his statutes which I command you this day; that all these curses
shall come upon you, and overtake you: DEUTERONOMY 28:15
DANIEL 9:11
For אתeth whom YAH loves he chastens, and scourges every son
whom he receives. HEBREWS 12:6
And the mercy of the Lord is upon them that love Him in truth,
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For the testimony is in the law of the eternal covenant,
And the pious shall give thanks in the assembly of the people;
And on the poor shall God have mercy in the gladness of Israel;
And the assemblies of Israel shall glorify the name of the Lord.
The salvation of the Lord be upon the house of Israel unto ever,
lasting gladness!
Ecclesiastes 30:1
“He that loveth his son causeth him oft to feel the rod, that he
may have joy of him in the end.”
The Father wished to reveal his [wealth] and his glory, and so he
established a great contest in this world. He wanted to make the
contestants come up and leave behind what is of the created world,
and despise these things with exalted, incomprehensible knowledge
, and run to the one who is. We are to be triumphant over the igno,
rance of those who contend with us, the adversaries who contend
against us, through our knowledge, for we already have known the
inscrutable one from whom we have come. We have nothing in this
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world, or else the world's authority that came to be might hold us
back in the worlds of the heavens, where death is universal, sur,
rounded by individual [27}……
2 Maccabees 6:12-15
12Now I beseech those that read this book, that they be not dis,
couraged for these calamities, but that they judge those punish,
ments not to be for destruction, but for a chastening of our nation.
14 For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently for,
beareth to punish, till they be come to the fulness of their sins, so
dealeth he with us,
Wisdom of Solomon
John 15:22
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22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty
of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
Romans 9:22-23
22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his
power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—pre,
pared for destruction? 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his
glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in ad,
vance for glory—
2 Baruch 13 4-12
13:4 This means that if these happy cities will ever say, "Why has
the ALMIGHTY YAHWEH brought upon us this retribution?",
13:5 You and those who are like you, those who have seen this evil
and retribution coming over you and your nation in their own time,
may say to them that the nations will be thoroughly punished."
13:7 And when they say in that time, "When?", you will say to them:
13:8 You who have drunk the clarified wine, you now drink its
dregs, for the judgment of YAHWEH the Most High is impartial.
13:9 Therefore, HE did not spare HIS own sons first, but HE af,
flicted them as HIS enemies because they sinned.
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13:11 But now, you nations and tribes, you are guilty, because you
have trodden the earth all this time, and because you have used crea,
tion unrighteously.
13:12 For I have always benefited you, and you have always denied
the beneficence.
“Therefore, whereas thou dost chasten us, thou scourgest our ene,
mies a thousand times more, to the intent that, when we judge, we
should carefully think of thy goodness, and when we ourselves are
judged, we should look for mercy.”
John 2:8-10
8 Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the mas,
ter of the banquet." They did so, 9 and the master of the banquet
tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize
where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the wa,
ter knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10 and said, "Every,
one brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after
the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best
till now."
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The Sheperd of Hermas - Chapter 50:1-5
50:1 He saith to me; "Ye know that ye, who are the servants of God,
are dwelling in a foreign land; for your city is far from this city. If
then ye know your city, in which ye shall dwell, why do ye here pre,
pare fields and expensive displays and buildings and dwelling-
chambers which are superfluous?
50:2 He, therefore, that prepareth these things for this city does not
purpose to return to his own city.
50:4 Thou, therefor who hast fields and dwellings and many other
possessions, when thou art cast out by him, what wilt thou do with
thy field and thy house am all the other things that thou preparedst
for thyself? For the lord of this country saith to thee justly, "Either
conform to my laws, or depart from my country."
50:5 What then shalt thou do, who art under law in thine own city?
For the sake of thy fields and the rest of thy possessions wilt thou al,
together repudiate thy law, and walk according to the law of this
city? Take heed, lest it be inexpedient to repudiate the law; for if
thou shouldest desire to return again to thy city, thou shall surely
not be received because thou didst repudiate the law of the city, and
shalt be shut out from it.
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1 Peter 4:17-18
17 For it is time for judgment to begin with God's household; and
if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not
obey the gospel of God? 18 And, "If it is hard for the righteous to be
saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?"
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C H A P T E R 10
19 He has revealed his word to Jacob, his laws and decrees to Israel.
20 He has done this for no other nation; they do not know his laws.
Praise the LORD.
Amos 3:1-3
1 Hear this word, people of Israel, the word the LORD has spoken
against you—against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt: 2
"You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth; therefore I
will punish you for all your sins."3 Do two walk together unless they
have agreed to do so?
1 For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright,
Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no
remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the
grave.
4 And our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have
our works in remembrance, and our life shall pass away as the trace
of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, that is driven away with
the beams of the sun, and overcome with the heat thereof.
5 For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after our
end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh
again.
6 Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present:
and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth.
7 Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no
flower of the spring pass by us:
10 Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the
widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.
11 Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is
found to be nothing worth.
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13 He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth him,
self the child of the Lord.
15 He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like
other men's, his ways are of another fashion.
Deuteronomy 7:3
Tobit 4:12
And Aseneth's mother went up to the top storey and brought Ase,
neth down to Joseph; and Pentephres said to his daughter Aseneth,
"Greet your brother, for he too is a virgin as you are to-day, and he
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detests all strange women just as you detest strange men." 2. And Ase,
neth said to Joseph, "May you have joy, my lord, blessed as you are of
God Most High"; and Joseph said to her, "May God, who has given all
things life, bless you." 3. And Pentephres said to Aseneth, "Come
near and kiss your brother." 4. And when she came near to kiss Jo,
seph, Joseph stretched his right hand out, and laid it against her
breast, and said, 5. "It is not right for a man who worships God, who
with his mouth blesses the living God, and eats the blessed bread of
life, and drinks the blessed cup of immortality, and is anointed with
the blessed unction [1] of incorruption, to kiss a strange woman, who
with her mouth blesses dead and dumb idols, and eats of their table
the bread of anguish, [2] and drinks of their libations the cup of treach,
ery, [3] and is anointed with the unction of destruction. 6. A man who
worships God will kiss his mother and his sister that is of his own
tribe and kin, [4] and the wife that shares his couch, who with their
mouths bless the living God. 7. So too it is not right for a woman who
worships God to kiss a strange man, because this is an abomination
in God's eyes."
1 Maccabees 1:11-15
11 In those days went there out of Israel wicked men, who per,
suaded many, saying, Let us go and make a covenant with the hea,
then that are round about us: for since we departed from them we
have had much sorrow.
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14 Whereupon they built a place of exercise at Jerusalem according
to the customs of the heathen:
For if chaff is mixed with wheat, it it not the chaff that is contami,
nated but the wheat. Since they are mixed together, no one will buy
the contaminated wheat. They will coax the dealer and say, "Give us
this chaff," for they see the wheat mixed with it. Then they will take
the chaff and throw it out with the rest of the chaff, and that chaff
will become mixed with all other material stuff. Pure seed is kept in
storehouses that are secure. We now have discussed all these
things.
We now have been put to shame [in the] worlds, but we are not in,
terested in them when they speak ill of us. We ignore them when
they curse us. We stare as them in silence when they treat us shame,
fully, directly to our face. They go about their business, and we go
about in hunger and thirst, looking to our dwelling place, which we
perceive through our lifestyle and our conscience. We do not hand
on created things, but we withdraw from them. Our hearts are set
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on what truly is, and although we are sick, weak, and in pain, there is
great strength hidden within us.
Revelations 2:9
9 I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know
about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but
are a synagogue of Satan.
because I, too have come to hate their gods and have destroyed
them,
have come to hate me and said, " Aseneth is not our daughter
And now, in this humiliation of mine, all have (come to ) hate me,
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And the Lord of God of the powerful Joseph, the Most High,
And I do not have the boldness to call on the Lord God of Heaven,
the Most High, the Mighty One of the powerful Joseph ,
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Galatians 4:16
16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
2 Esdras 7:12
“Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, full of sor,
row and travail: they are but few and evil, full of perils,: and very pain,
ful.” King James Version (KJV)
2 Esdras 7:6-10
1 There is also another thing. A city is built, and set upon a broad
field, and is full of all good things.
8 And one only path between them both, even between the fire and
the water, so small that there could but one man goes there at once.
9 If this city now were given unto a man for an inheritance, if he
never shall passes the danger set before it, how shall he receive this
inheritance?
10 And I said, It is so, Lord. Then said he unto me, Even so also is Is,
raels portion:
2 Corinthians 4:18
18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen,
since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
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C H A P T E R 11
71 salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate
us—
And he said unto us: Behold, I will separate unto myself a people
from among all the peoples, and these shall guard the Shabbath, and
I will sanctify them unto myself as my people, and will bless them; as
I have sanctified the Shabbath and do sanctify it unto myself, even
so will I bless them, and they shall be my people and I will be their
ELOHIYM. JUBILEES 2:20
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And I have chosen the seed of Ya'aqov from amongst all that I
have seen, and have written him down as my firstborn son, and have
sanctified him unto myself forever and ever; and I will teach them
the Shabbath, that they may guard the Shabbath thereon from all
work. JUBILEES 2:21
Jeremiah 31:35-36
35 This is what the LORD says, he who appoints the sun to shine
by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs
up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD Almighty is his name:
8 And the nations were those that were assembled to destroy the
name of the Jews: 9 And my nation is this Israel, which cried to God,
and were saved: for the Lord hath saved his people, and the Lord
hath delivered us from all those evils, and God hath wrought signs
and great wonders, which have not been done among the Gentiles.
10 Therefore hath he made two lots, one for the people of God, and
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another for all the Gentiles. 11 And these two lots came at the hour,
and time, and day of judgment, before God among all nations. 12 So
God remembered his people, and justified his inheritance.
Ecclesiasticus 33:10-14
10 And all men are from the ground, and Adam was created of
earth:
11 In much knowledge the Lord hath divided them, and made their
ways diverse.
14 Good is set against evil, and life against death: so is the godly
against the sinner, and the sinner against the godly.
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ple in this picture on this side and on that?" And he said to me,
"These who are on the left side are a multitude of tribes who existed
previously...and after you some (who have been) prepared for judg,
ment and order, others for revenge and perdition 5. at the end of the
age. Those on the right side of the picture are the people set apart
for me of the people with Azazel; these are the ones I have prepared
to be born of you and to be called my people.
32. And I said, "0 Eternal, Mighty One! What is this vision and pic,
ture of the creatures?" And He said to me, "This is my will for those
who exist in the divine world-counsel, for thus it seemed well-
pleasing in my sight, and so afterwards I gave commandment to
them through my word. And so it came to pass that what33. And I
said, "0 Lord, Mighty and Eternal! Who are the people in this picture
on this side and that?" And He said to me, "Those who are on the left
side are all those, born before your day and afterwards, some des,
tined for judgment and restoration, and others for vengeance and
cutting off at the end of the age. But those on the right side of the
picture, they are the. people who have been set apart for me, and
whom I have ordained to be born of your line and called my people,
even some of those who derive from Azazel. ever I had determined
to be, was already planned beforehand in this picture-vision before
you, and it has stood before me before it was created, as you have
seen."
Psalms 58:3
3 Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are
wayward, spreading lies.
Proverbs 16:4
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4 The LORD works out everything to its proper end—even the
wicked for a day of disaster.
Romans 9:21-22
21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same
lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for com,
mon use?
22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his
power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—pre,
pared for destruction?
Matthew 25:31-33
31 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels
with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.
32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will sepa,
rate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep
from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats
on his left.
1 And he was telling me all the works of heaven, earth and sea, and
all the elements, their passages and goings, and the thunderings of
the thunders, the sun and moon, the goings and changes of the
stars, the seasons, years, days, and hours, the risings of the wind, the
numbers of the angels, and the formation of their songs, and all hu,
man things, the tongue of every human song and life, the command,
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ments, instructions, and sweet-voiced singings, and all things that it
is fitting to learn.
2 And Pravuil told me: All the things that I have told you, we have
written. Sit and write all the souls of mankind, however many of
them are born, and the places prepared for them to eternity; for all
souls are prepared to eternity, before the formation of the world.
3 And all double thirty days and thirty nights, and I wrote out all
things exactly, and wrote three hundred and sixty-six books.
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ments of God shall increase and be prospered: but those who sin
and set at naught the commandments shall be without the blessings
before mentioned, and they shall be punished with many torments
by the nations. But wholly to root out and destroy them is not permit,
ted. For God will go forth who has foreseen all things for ever, and
His covenant has been established and by the oath which . . .
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C H A P T E R 12
Matthew 6:19-21
Isaiah 42:22
Deuteronomy 28:10-11
10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the
name of the LORD, and they will fear you.
11 The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of
your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your
ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.
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10 We have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea
for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and
Og, the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan, whom you com,
pletely destroyed.
11 When we heard of it, our hearts melted in fear and everyone's
courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in
heaven above and on the earth below.
12 "Now then, please swear to me by the LORD that you will show
kindness to my family, because I have shown kindness to you. Give
me a sure sign 13 that you will spare the lives of my father and
mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them—and
that you will save us from death."
23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and be,
sought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep
of the house of Israel.
25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
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27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which
fall from their masters' table.
28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy
faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made
whole from that very hour.
Jasher
1 And all the kings of the Amorites came and took their stand
in the field to consult with their counsellors what was to be done
with the sons of Jacob, for they were still afraid of them, saying, Be,
hold, two of them slew the whole of the city of Shechem.
2 And the Lord heard the prayers of Isaac and Jacob, and he
filled the hearts of all these kings' advisers with great fear and terror
that they unanimously exclaimed,
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4 Behold two of them came to the city of Shechem without fear
or terror, and they killed all the inhabitants of the city, that no man
stood up against them, and how will you be able to fight with them
all?
8 And who else can do the like? surely it was Abraham who
slew the five kings of Elam, when they had touched his brother's son
who in those days dwelt in Sodom.
9 And took his servant that was faithful in his house and a few
of his men, and they pursued the kings of Elam in one night and
killed them, and restored to his brother's son all his property which
they had taken from him.
10 And surely you know the God of these Hebrews is much de,
lighted with them, and they are also delighted with him, for they
know that he delivered them from all their enemies.
11 And behold through his love toward his God, Abraham took
his only and precious son and intended to bring him up as a burnt of,
fering to his God, and had it not been for God who prevented him
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from doing this, he would then have done it through his love to his
God.
12 And God saw all his works, and swore unto him, and prom,
ised him that he would deliver his sons and all his seed from every
trouble that would befall them, because he had done this thing, and
through his love to his God stifled his compassion for his child.
13 And have you not heard what their God did to Pharaoh king
of Egypt, and to Abimelech king of Gerar, through taking Abraham's
wife, who said of her, She is my sister, lest they might slay him on ac,
count of her, and think of taking her for a wife? and God did unto
them and their people all that you heard of.
14 And behold, we ourselves saw with our eyes that Esau, the
brother of Jacob, came to him with four hundred men, with the inten,
tion of slaying him, for he called to mind that he had taken away
from him his father's blessing.
16 Who does not know that it was their God who inspired them
with strength to do to the town of Shechem the evil which you heard
of?
17 Could it then be with their own strength that two men could
destroy such a large city as Shechem had it not been for their God in
whom they trusted? he said and did unto them all this to slay the in,
habitants of the city in their city.
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18 And can you then prevail over them who have come forth to,
gether from your city to fight with the whole of them, even if a thou,
sand times as many more should come to your assistance?
20 Now therefore refrain from this evil which you are endeavor,
ing to bring upon yourselves, and it will be better for you not to go
to battle with them, although they are but few in numbers, because
their God is with them.
21 And when the kings of the Amorites heard all the words of
their advisers, their hearts were filled with terror, and they were
afraid of the sons of Jacob and would not fight against them.
23 And the kings turned and refrained from the sons of Jacob,
for they durst not approach them to make war with them, for they
were greatly afraid of them, and their hearts melted within them
from their fear of them.
24 For this proceeded from the Lord to them, for he heard the
prayers of his servants Isaac and Jacob, for they trusted in him; and
all these kings returned with their camps on that day, each to his
own city, and they did not at that time fight with the sons of Jacob.
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25 And the sons of Jacob kept their station that day till evening
opposite mount Sihon, and seeing that these kings did not come to
fight against them, the sons of Jacob returned home.
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C H A P T E R 13
Galatians 3:3
27 "The owner's servants came to him and said, 'Sir, didn't you
sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?'
28 " 'An enemy did this,' he replied." The servants asked him, 'Do
you want us to go and pull them up?'
29 " 'No,' he answered, 'because while you are pulling the weeds,
you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until
the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the
weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat
and bring it into my barn.' "
Enoch 88:115-116
88:115 Moreover also all the sheep were blind, and could not see, as
were the shepherds likewise.
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Psalms of Solomon
You have exposed their sins, that your judgement might be evi,
dent \; you have obliterated their memory from the earth. God Is a
righteous judge and he will not be impressed by appearances, the
gentiles insulted Jerusalem, trampling (her) down; he dragged her
beauty down from the throne of glory.
Authoritative Discourse
We live like this in the World, ;like fish. The adversary is on the
lookout for us and is lying in wait for us, like a fisherman, to catch
us. The adversary is delighted to consume us. [He dangles] many
kinds of food before our eyes, the stuff of this world, because he
hopes to make us desire just one kind of food and to taste only a lit,
tle of it. That he then may catch us with his hidden poison and take
us from freedom into slavery. For when he catches us with a single
kind of food, we cannot help but desire the rest of the food. In the
end, such things become the food of death.
Jeremiah 23:24
24 Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?" de,
clares the LORD."Do not I fill heaven and earth?" declares the LORD.
How can we tell who the Lord's people are? By their fruit.
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Nag Hammadi
The Book of Thomas Woes upon the Godless (143, 8–145, 1)
Then the Savior continued and said, “Woe to you, godless people,
who have no hope,
who are secure in things that do not last. “Woe to you who hope
in the flesh and in the prison that will perish.24 How long will you
sleep and think that what is imperishable will also perish? Your
hope is based upon the world, and your god is the present life. You
are destroying your souls.
Matthew 7:15-16
15 "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's
clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you
will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or
figs from thistles?
[He] teaches those who will learn. And those who will learn are
the living who
are inscribed in the book of the living. They learn about them,
selves, receiving instruction
from the Father, returning to him. Since the perfection of the All
is in the Father, all must go up to him. When all have received knowl,
edge, they receive what is theirs and draw it to themselves. For
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those who are ignorant are in need, and their need is great, be,
cause they need what
would make them perfect. Since the perfection of the All is in the
Father, all must
to the one who is calling, and goes up to him. He knows how he is
called. That person
has knowledge and does the will of him who called. That person
wishes to please him,
finds rest, and has the appropriate name. Those who have knowl,
edge in this way know
where they come from and where they are going. They know as
one who, having become
control of himself.
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Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 5
1Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the
face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his
labours.
2 When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, and
shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond all
that they looked for.
3 And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall say
within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision,
and a proverb of reproach:
4 We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without
honour:
6 Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of
righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteous,
ness rose not upon us.
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SECTION 1
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C H A P T E R 14
“For Esau is the end of the world, and Jacob is the beginning of it
that followeth.” Expanded
Who is Esau?
2 Baruch 36:1-8
36:1 And when I had said this, I fell asleep at that place and saw a
vision in the night.
36:2 And behold there was a forest with trees that was planted on
the plain and surrounded by high mountains and rugged rocks. And
the forest occupied much space.
36:3 And behold, over against it a vine arose, and from under it a
fountain (ran) peacefully.
36:4 And that fountain came to the forest and changed into great
waves, and those waves submerged the forest and suddenly up,
rooted the entire forest and overthrew all the mountains which sur,
rounded it.
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36:5 And the height of the forest became low, and that top of the
mountains became low. And that fountain became so strong that it
left nothing of the great forest except one cedar.
36:6 When it had also cast that one down, it destroyed the entire
forest and uprooted it so that nothing was left of it, and its place
was not even known anymore. Then that vine arrived with the foun,
tain in shalom and in great tranquility and arrived at a place which
was not far away from the cedar, and they brought to him that cedar
which had been cast down.
36:7 And I saw, and behold, that vine opened its mouth and spoke
and said to the cedar, "Are you not that cedar which remained of the
forest of wickedness? Because of you, wickedness remained and has
been done during all these years, but never goodness.
36:8 And you possessed power over that which did not belong to
you; you did not even show compassion to that which did belong to
you. And you extended your power over those who were living far
from you, and you keep those who are close to you in the nets of
your wickedness, and you uplift your soul always like one who could
not be uprooted.
The Most High divided the lands and gave land to His people. But
the nations of Esau stole the lands and gave them to their children.
Therefore, wickedness came in.
Deuteronomy 32:8
8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he
divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according
to the number of the sons of Israel.
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88:96 I will tell you which of them shall be slain; these destroy. And
he delivered the sheep to them.
88:99 Of all the destruction [brought about by] each of the shep,
herds there shall be an account; and according to the number I will
cause a recital to be made before me, how many they have de,
stroyed of their own heads, and how many they have delivered up to
destruction, that I may have this testimony against them; that I may
know all their proceedings; and that, delivering [the sheep] to them, I
may see what they will do; whether they will act as I have com,
manded them, or not.
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Isaiah 47:6-7
7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not
lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end
of it.
Psalms 10:6
6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never
be in adversity.
9 And after his death they all put crowns upon themselves; so did
their sons after them many years: and evils were multiplied in the
earth.
There is a curse on those who take land that does not belong too.
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Deuteronomy 19:14
which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth
thee to possess it.
Deuteronomy 27:17
2 Baruch 36:9-11
36:9 But now your time has hastened and your hour has come.
36:10 Therefore O cedar, follow the forest which has departed be,
fore you and become ashes with it, and let your earth be mixed to,
gether.
36:11 And now, sleep in distress and rest in pain until your last
time comes in which you will return to be tormented even more."
2 Baruch 38:1-4
38:2 YOUR Torah is Life, and YOUR wisdom is the right way.
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38:4 For YOU know that my soul has always been associated with
YOUR Torah, and that I did not depart from YOUR wisdom from my
earliest days.
2 Baruch 39:3
39:3 Behold, the days will come when this kingdom that destroyed
Zion once will be destroyed and that it will be subjected to that
which will come after it.
2 Baruch 39:4-8
39:4 This again will also be destroyed after some time. And an,
other, a third, will rise and also that will possess power in its own
time and will be destroyed.
39:6 And the Truth will hide itself in this and all who are polluted
with unrighteousness will flee to it like the evil beasts flee and creep
into the forest.
39:7 And it will happen when the time of its fulfillment is ap,
proaching in which it will fall, that at that time the dominion of MY
Anointed One which is like the fountain and the vine, will be re,
vealed. And when it has revealed itself, it will uproot the multitude of
its host.
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39:8 And that which you have seen, namely the tall cedar, which re,
mained of that forest, and with regard to the words which the vine
said to it which you heard, this is the meaning.
Psalms 83
1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not
still, O God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee
have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and con,
sulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a na,
tion; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are con,
federate against thee:
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabi,
tants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of
Lot. Selah.
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11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes
as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the moun,
tains on fire;
16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O
LORD.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be
put to shame, and perish:
18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH,
art the most high over all the earth.
Jeremiah 17:4
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2 Baruch 40
40:1 The last ruler who is left alive at that time will be bound,
whereas the entire host will be destroyed. And they will carry Him on
Mount Zion, and MY Anointed One will convict him of all his wicked
deeds and will assemble and set before him all the works of his
hosts. Isaiah 14:16
40:2 And after these things He will kill him and protect the rest of
MY people who will be found in the place that I have chosen.
40:3 And His dominion will last forever until the world of corrup,
tion has ended and until the times which have been mentioned be,
fore have been fulfilled.
Isaiah 14:16
16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider
thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did
shake kingdoms;
18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every
one in his own house.
19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch,
and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a
sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden un,
der feet.
20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast
destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall
never be renowned.
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Isaiah 63:1
1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from
Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the great,
ness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Genesis 28:11-15
11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night,
because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and
put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD
God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon
thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt
spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to
the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the
earth be blessed.
15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places
whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will
not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
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5 Thus he said to me: "You have seen a ladder with twelve steps,
each step having two human faces which kept changing their appear,
ance The Ladder is this age, and the twelve steps are the periods of
this age. But he twenty-four faces are the kings of the ungodly na,
tions of this age. Under these kings the children of your children
and the generations of your sons will be interrogated. These will
rise up against the iniquity of your grandsons. And this place will be
made desolate by the four ascents . . . Through the sins of your
grandsons. And around the property of your forefathers a palace will
be built, a temple in the name of your God and of (the God) of your
fathers, and in the provocations of your children it will become de,
serted by the four ascents of this age. For you saw the first four
busts which were striking against the steps . . . Angels ascending
and descending, and the bust amid the steps. The Most High will
raise up kings from the grandsons of your brother Esau, and they
will receive all the nobles of the tribes of the earth who will have mal,
treated your seed. And they will delivered into his hands and he will
be vexed by them. And he will hold them by force and rule over
them, and they will not be able to oppose him until the day when his
thought will go on against them to serve idols and (to offer) sacri,
fices of the dead. . . . (He will) do violence to all those in his kingdom
who will be revealed in such guilt, both to the highest (man) from
your tribe kfalkonagargailyuya. Know, Jacob , that your descendants
shall be exiles in a strange land, and they will afflict them slavery
and inflicted wounds on them every day. But the LORD will judge the
people for whom they slave.
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6 And when the king arises, judgment too will come upon that
place. Then your seed, Israel, will go out of slavery to the nations
who hold them by force, and they will be and they will be free from
any rebuke of your enemies. For this king is the head of all revenge
and retaliation against those who have done evil to you. Israel and
the end of the age. For bitter ones will rise, they will cry out, and the
Lord will hear then and accept their plea. And the Mighty One will re,
pent because of their sufferings. For the angels and archangels will
hurl their bolts of lightning before them for the sake of the salvation
of your tribe. And you will gain the mercy of the Most High. Then
their wives will bear many children. And afterward the Lord will fight
for your tribe through great and terrible signs against those who
made them slaves. He filled their storehouses, and they will be
found empty. Their land swarmed with retiles and all sorts of deadly
things. There will be earthquakes and much destruction. And the
LORD will pour out his wrath against Leviathan the sea-dragon; he
will kill the lawless Falkon with the sword, because he will raise the
wrath of the God of gods by his pride. And then you justice will be
revealed, Jacob, and that of your children who are to be after you
(and) who will walk in your justice. And then your seed will sound
the horn and all the kingdom of Edom will perish together with all
the peoples of Moab.
Zechariah 2:7-9
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8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent
me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you
toucheth the apple of his eye.
9 For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be
a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts
hath sent me.
For Esau is the end of the world, and Jacob is the beginning of it
that followeth.
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C H A P T E R 15
13 And there came much people unto him, whereof some were
glad, some were sorry, and some of them were bound, and other
some brought of them that were offered: then was I sick through
great fear, and I awaked, and said,
14 Thou hast shewed thy servant these wonders from the begin,
ning, and hast counted me worthy that thou shouldest receive my
prayer:
18 Now understand I the things that are laid up in the latter days,
which shall happen unto them, and to those that are left behind.
19 Therefore are they come into great perils and many necessities,
like as these dreams declare.
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the things that happen in the last days. And he answered unto me,
and said,
22 Whereas thou hast spoken of them that are left behind, this is
the interpretation:
23 He that shall endure the peril in that time hath kept himself:
they that be fallen into danger are such as have works, and faith to,
ward the Almighty.
24 Know this therefore, that they which be left behind are more
blessed than they that be dead.
26 The same is he whom God the Highest hath kept a great sea,
son, which by his own self shall deliver his creature: and he shall or,
der them that are left behind.
27 And whereas thou sawest, that out of his mouth there came as
a blast of wind, and fire, and storm;
28 And that he held neither sword, nor any instrument of war, but
that the rushing in of him destroyed the whole multitude that came
to subdue him; this is the interpretation:
29 Behold, the days come, when the most High will begin to de,
liver them that are upon the earth.
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31 And one shall undertake to fight against another, one city
against another, one place against another, one people against an,
other, and one realm against another.
32 And the time shall be when these things shall come to pass, and
the signs shall happen which I shewed thee before, and then shall my
Son be declared, whom thou sawest as a man ascending.
33 And when all the people hear his voice, every man shall in their
own land leave the battle they have one against another.
36 And Sion shall come, and shall be shewed to all men, being pre,
pared and builded, like as thou sawest the hill graven without hands.
nations, which for their wicked life are fallen into the tempest;
38 And shall lay before them their evil thoughts, and the torments
wherewith they shall begin to be tormented, which are like unto a
flame: and he shall destroy them without labour by the law which is
like unto me.
40 Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out
of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the
king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the wa-
ters, and so came they into another land.
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There will be no peace for the wicked.
Deuteronomy 19:14
which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth
thee to possess it.
Deuteronomy 27:17
Proverbs 23:10
10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of
the fatherless: (The nations came in and took over the ten tribes,
took there land, changed laws to win against them, changed names.
Etc.)
Habakkuk 2:12
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Enoch 97:13-15
Woe to you who build your houses by the labour of others, every
part of which is constructed with brick, and with the stone of crime; I
tell you that you shall not obtain peace. Woe to you who despise the
extent of the everlasting inheritance of your fathers, while your
souls follow after idols, for to you there shall be no tranquility. Woe
to them who commit iniquity, and give aid to blasphemy, who slay
their neighbor until the day of the great judgment for your glory
shall fall; malevolence shall he put into your hearts, and the RUACH
of his wrath shall stir you up that everyone of you may perish by the
sword.
But these sayings that you tell us are laughable and ridiculous to
the world, since they are not understood. How can we go forth and
preach them when we are [not] respected in the world?”
The Savior answered and said, “I tell you the truth, whoever lis,
tens to [your] word
person will be handed over to the ruler who is on high, who rules
as king over all
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the powers, and the ruler will turn him away and cast him down
from on high into the
They will have No peace , not only have taken our land and pos,
sessions, they have taken away our knowledge of the Father and re,
placed with their made up god the white Jesus. There is a curse on
them because of this wrong doing.
Habakkuk 2:15
15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy
bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look
on their nakedness!
2 Corinthians 11:4
Enoch 96:22-25
22. Woe to you who rejoice in the trouble of the righteous; for a
grave shall not be dug for you.
23. Woe to you who frustrate the word of the righteous; for to you
there shall be no hope of life.
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24. Woe to you who write down the word of falsehood, and the
word of the wicked; for their falsehood they record, that they may
hear and not forget folly.
25. To them there shall be no peace; but they shall surely die sud,
denly.
Enoch 97:1-3
1. Woe to them who act impiously, who laud and honour the word
of falsehood. You have been lost in perdition; and have never led a
virtuous life.
3. And cause the heads of those who are not sinners to be trodden
down upon the earth.
Matthew 18:6-7
6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in
me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his
neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
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the bondage of femininity, and choose for yourselves the salvation
of masculinity.
Isaiah 2:2-4
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of
the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains,
and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to
the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he
will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of
Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from
Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against na,
tion, neither shall they learn war any more.
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C H A P T E R 16
Isaiah 28:9-10
1Peter 4:5-6
5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick
and the dead.
6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are
dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but
live according to God in the spirit.
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quicken
Hebrew: חיה
Transliteration: châyâh
Pronunciation: khaw-yaw'
KJV Usage: live (153x), alive (34x), save (13x), quicken (14x), revive
(12x), surely (10x), life (9x), recover (8x), misc (9x).
Occurs: 271
In verses: 235
quicken
[kwik-uh n]
Spell Syllables
• Synonyms
• Examples
• Word Origin
101
She quickened her pace.
2.to give or restore vigor or activity to; stir up, rouse, or stimulate:
6.(of the mother) to enter that stage of pregnancy in which the fe,
tus gives indications of life.
1Peter 4:3
3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the
will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess
of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
John 15:18-20
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but be,
cause ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you.
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20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not
greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also perse,
cute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
He answered them, “You are from fullness, and you are in a place
of deficiency. And look, his light has poured down on me.”
Ecclesiasticus 2:4-6
5 For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of
adversity.
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6 Believe in him, and he will help thee; order thy way aright, and
trust in him.
The Dead
A Gentile does not die, for he has never lived in order that he may
die. He who has believed in the truth has found life, and this one is
in danger of dying, for he is alive. Since Christ came, the world has
been created, the cities adorned, the dead carried out. When we were
Hebrews, we were orphans and had only our mother, but when we be,
came Christians, we had both father and mother.
Those who are heirs to the dead are themselves dead, and they in,
herit the dead. Those who are heirs to what is living are alive, and
they are heirs to both what is living and the dead. The dead are heirs
to nothing. For how can he who is dead inherit? If he who is dead in,
herits what is living he will not die, but he who is dead will live even
more.
Psalms 2:8-9
8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheri,
tance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them
in pieces like a potter's vessel
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C H A P T E R 17
This nation has never followed the Most High. These nations have
deceived His little ones.
Jeremiah 50:4-7
4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Is,
rael shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and
weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, say,
ing, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual cove,
nant that shall not be forgotten.
resting place.
7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries
said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the
habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
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Jeremiah 50:11
Revelation 11:9-10
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations
shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suf,
fer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and
make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two
prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
Jeremiah 50:63-64
63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this
book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of
Euphrates:
64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise
from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus
far are the words of Jeremiah.
Matthew 18:1-7
1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is
the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
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2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst
of them,
3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and be,
come as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of
heaven.
receiveth me.
6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in
me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his
neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
The glory of the unbegotten will appear and fill all the eternal
realms when the prophets
of immortals, but they will never enter the kingless realm. All
must return to the place where they came from. By what they do and
what they know all of them will reveal their natures.98
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Apocalypse of Peter
Zechariah 2:8-9
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent
me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you
toucheth the apple of his eye.
9 For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be
a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts
hath sent me.
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C H A P T E R 18
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept,
precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and
there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken,
and snared, and taken.
2 Esdras 14:44-48
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45 And it came to pass, when the forty days were filled, that the
Highest spake, saying, The first that thou hast written publish
openly, that the worthy and unworthy may read it:
46 But keep the seventy last, that thou mayest deliver them only to
such as be wise among the people:
6 And those who understand not the Lord, who fear not God, who
accept not, but reject, who do not receive the (books), a terrible judg,
ment awaits these.
7 Blessed is the man who shall bear their yoke and shall drag
them along, for he shall be released on the day of the great
judgment.
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It was prophesied that the Gentiles would spread lies. So are we
listening to them and allowing them to tell us what to read about the
Most High. We inherited the lies of our fathers.
Jeremiah 16:19
3 And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall say
within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision,
and a proverb of reproach:
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6 Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of
righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteous,
ness rose not upon us.
8 What hath pride profited us? or what good hath riches with our
vaunting brought us?
Psalms 147:19-20
Israel.
20 He has done this for no other nation; they do not know his
laws. Praise the LORD.
1 And now, my children, lay thought on your hearts, mark well the
words of your father, which are all (come) to you from the Lord’s lips.
3 For the books are many, and in them you will learn all the Lord’s
works, all that has been from the beginning of creation, and will be
till the end of time.
4 And if you will observe my handwriting, you will not sin against
the Lord; because there is no other except the Lord, neither in
heaven, nor in earth, nor in the very lowest (places), nor in the (one)
foundation.
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5 The Lord has placed the foundations in the unknown, and has
spread forth heavens visible (physical) and invisible (spiritual); he
fixed the earth on the waters, and created countless creatures, and
who has counted the water and the foundation of the unfixed, or the
dust of the earth, or the sand of the sea, or the drops of the rain, or
the morning dew, or the wind’s breathings? Who has filled earth and
sea, and the indissoluble winter?
6 I cut the stars out of fire, and decorated heaven, and put it in
their midst.
1 That the sun go along the seven heavenly circles, which are the
appointment of one hundred and eighty-two thrones, that it go
down on a short day, and again one hundred and eighty-two, that it
go down on a big day, and he has two thrones on which he rests, re,
volving hither and thither above the thrones of the months, from the
seventeenth day of the month Tsivan it goes down to the month The,
van, from the seventeenth of Thevan it goes up.
2 And thus it goes close to the earth, then the earth is glad and
makes grow its fruits, and when it goes away, then the earth is sad,
and trees and all fruits have no florescence.
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5 Thus I make known to you, my children, and distribute the
books to your children, into all your generations, and amongst the
nations who shall have the sense to fear God, let them receive them,
and may they come to love them more than any food or earthly
sweets, and read them and apply themselves to them.
6 And those who understand not the Lord, who fear not God, who
accept not, but reject, who do not receive the (books), a terrible judg,
ment awaits these.
7 Blessed is the man who shall bear their yoke and shall drag
them along, for he shall be released on the day of the great
judgment.
2 Esdras 14:44-48
45 And it came to pass, when the forty days were filled, that the
Highest spake, saying, The first that thou hast written publish
openly, that the worthy and unworthy may read it:
46 But keep the seventy last, that thou mayest deliver them only to
such as be wise among the people:
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2 Esdras 14: 26
26 And when thou hast done, some things shalt thou publish, and
some things shalt thou shew secretly to the wise: to morrow this
hour shalt thou begin to write.
2 Esdras 14:34
2 Esdras 14:39-40
40 And I took it, and drank: and when I had drunk of it, my heart ut,
tered understanding, and wisdom grew in my breast, for my spirit
strengthened my memory:
These are the revelations Adam disclosed to his son Seth, and his
son taught them to his offspring. This is the hidden knowledge of
Adam that he gave to Seth, and this is holy baptism for people who
have eternal knowledge, through those born of the word and the in,
corruptible illuminators,58 who have come from the holy seed,
Yesseus Mazareus Yessedekeus the living water, The Revelation of
Adam
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But the generation without a king52 says, God chose him from all
the eternal realms He made knowledge of the undefiled one of truth
to come to be [in] him. He said, “The [great] illuminator has come
[from] foreign air, [from a] great eternal realm.” And [he] [83] illu,
mined the generation of those people, whom he had chosen for him,
self, so that they might illumine the whole eternal realm.
Then the offspring, who will receive his name in the water, and
that of them all,53 will oppose the power, and a dark cloud will over,
shadow them. The people will cry out with a loud voice and say,
“Blessed are the souls of those people, because they have known
God with knowledge of truth. They will live for ever and ever, be,
cause they have not been corrupted by their desires, as the angels
have,
and they have not accomplished the deeds of the powers. Rather,
they have stood before
him in knowledge of God, like light that has come from fire and
blood. “But we have done everything through the foolishness of the
powers. We have boasted
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[truth], because all of his work…[84] is eternal. Take pity on our
spirits. For now we know our souls will surely die.”
the powers, into whose hands you have been given, to serve
them.55 “Your thought is not like that of those people whom you per,
secute…desire…. [85] Their fruit does not wither.56 Rather, they will
be known up to the great eternal realms.”
The preserved words of the God of the eternal realms were not
copied in a book or
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Psalms 50:16-18
16 But to the wicked person, God says: "What right have you to re,
cite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?
18 When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot
with adulterers.
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7 And when he had said this, he added; let us go into the field, and
I will show thee shepherds of sheep. I replied, sir, let us go.
9 And the shepherd took very great satisfaction in his flock; and
the countenance of that shepherd was cheerful, running up and
down among his flock.
Matthew 7:13
13 "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad
is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
10 ¶ Then the angel said unto me, Seest thou this shepherd? I an,
swered, sir, I see him. He said unto me, this is the 3messenger of de,
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light and pleasure. He therefore corrupts the minds of the servants
of God, and turns them from the truth, delighting them with many
pleasures, and they perish.
11 For they forget the commands of the living God, and live in lux,
ury and in vain pleasures, and are corrupted by the evil angel, some
of them even unto death; and others to a falling away.
Isaiah 30:9-10
10 They say to the seers, "See no more visions!" and to the proph,
ets, "Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things,
prophesy illusions.
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18 But being entangled in them, fed upon thorns and briars, and
were grievously tormented with his whipping. For he still drove them
on, and afforded them not any place or time to stand still.
20 And I said unto the shepherd that was with me; Sir, who is this
cruel and implacable shepherd, who is moved with no compassion
towards these sheep? He answered, 5 This shepherd is indeed one
of the 6 holy angels, but is appointed for the punishment of sinners.
21 To him therefore are delivered those who have erred from God,
and served the lusts and pleasures of this world. For this cause he
punishes them every one according to their deserts, with cruel and
various kinds of pains.
Psalms 73:1-7
2 But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my
foothold.
5 They are free from common human burdens; they are not
plagued by human ills.
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7 From their callous hearts comes iniquity; their evil imaginations
have no limits. NIV
2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh
slipped.
3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the
wicked.
4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued
like other men.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart
could wish. KJV
22 Sir, said I, I would know, what kind of pains they are which
every one undergoes? Hearken, said he; The several pains and tor,
ments are those which men every day undergo in their present lives.
For some suffer losses; others poverty; others divers sicknesses.
Some are unsettled; others suffer injuries from those that are unwor,
thy; others fall under many other trials and inconveniences.
profiteth them not; and they say that they have not success in
their undertakings.
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24 They do not call to their mind what they have done amiss, and
they complain of the Lord. When therefore they shall have under,
gone all kind of vexation and inconvenience; then they are delivered
over to me for good instruction, and are confirmed in the faith of the
Lord, and serve the Lord all the rest of their days with a pure mind.
25 And when they begin to repent of their sins, then they call to
mind their works which they have done amiss, and give honour to
God, saying, That he is a just Judge, and they have deservedly suf,
fered all things according to their deeds.
26 Then for what remains of their lives, they serve God with a pure
mind; and have success in all their undertakings, and receive from
the Lord whatever they desire.
27 And then they give thanks unto the Lord that they were deliv,
ered unto me; nor do they suffer any more crue
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And the mercy of the Lord is upon them that love Him in truth,
And the pious shall give thanks in the assembly of the people;
And on the poor shall God have mercy in the gladness of Israel;
And the assemblies of Israel shall glorify the name of the Lord.
The salvation of the Lord be upon the house of Israel unto ever,
lasting gladness!
22 Sir, said I, I would know, what kind of pains they are which
every one undergoes? Hearken, said he; The several pains and tor,
ments are those which men every day undergo in their present lives.
For some suffer losses; others poverty; others divers sicknesses.
Some are unsettled; others suffer injuries from those that are unwor,
thy; others fall under many other trials and inconveniences.
profiteth them not; and they say that they have not success in
their undertakings.
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24 They do not call to their mind what they have done amiss, and
they complain of the Lord. When therefore they shall have under,
gone all kind of vexation and inconvenience; then they are delivered
over to me for good instruction, and are confirmed in the faith of the
Lord, and serve the Lord all the rest of their days with a pure mind.
25 And when they begin to repent of their sins, then they call to
mind their works which they have done amiss, and give honour to
God, saying, That he is a just Judge, and they have deservedly suf,
fered all things according to their deeds.
26 Then for what remains of their lives, they serve God with a pure
mind; and have success in all their undertakings, and receive from
the Lord whatever they desire.
27 And then they give thanks unto the Lord that they were deliv,
ered unto me; nor do they suffer any more crue
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And the mercy of the Lord is upon them that love Him in truth,
And the pious shall give thanks in the assembly of the people;
And on the poor shall God have mercy in the gladness of Israel;
And the assemblies of Israel shall glorify the name of the Lord.
The salvation of the Lord be upon the house of Israel unto ever,
lasting gladness!
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Jeremiah 9:23-24
23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man
glory in his riches:
2Clem 1:6
stones and gold and silver and bronze, the works of men; and our
whole life was nothing else but death. While then we were thus
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vision,
we recovered our sight, putting off by His will the cloud wherein
we were wrapped.
2Clem 1:7
For He had mercy on us, and in His compassion saved us, having
beheld
2Clem 1:8
For He called us, when we were not, and from not being He willed
us to be.
Daniel 12:10
10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the
wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand;
but the wise shall understand.
Luke 10:38-42
39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet,
and heard his word.
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40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to
him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to
serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art
careful and troubled about many things:
42 But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part,
which shall not be taken away from her.
People will prefer darkness to light and death to life. No one will
gaze up to heaven. The godly will be considered mad, and the impi,
ous will be honored as wise. The coward will be considered
“Concerning the soul, and the things of the soul, and whatever
has to do with immortality,
along with the rest of what I have explained to you, Tat, Ascle,
pius, and Ammon,19 these things will not only be considered ridicu,
lous, they will also be regarded as being nothing. Believe me, people
like this will expose themselves to the ultimate danger to their souls.
A new law will be established [73]......20 and the good [spirits] will [de,
part],21 but the wicked angels will remain among people and be with
them, and lead them recklessly into what is evil and into godless,
ness, war, and pillage, by teaching them things contrary to nature.
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Nag Hammadi
People will prefer darkness to light and death to life. No one will
gaze up to heaven. The godly will be considered mad, and the impi,
ous will be honored as wise. The coward will be considered strong,
and the good person will be punished as a criminal.
“Concerning the soul, and the things of the soul, and whatever
has to do with immortality,
along with the rest of what I have explained to you, Tat, Asclepius,
and Ammon,19 these things will not only be considered ridiculous,
they will also be regarded as being nothing. Believe me, people like
this will expose themselves to the ultimate danger to their souls. A
new law will be established [73]......20 and the good [spirits] will [de,
part],21 but the wicked angels will remain among people and be with
them, and lead them recklessly into what is evil and into godless,
ness, war, and pillage, by teaching them things contrary to nature.
1 Timothy 5:8
8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his
own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
(Provide - Strong's Concordance Description: 1) to perceive before,
foresee 2) to provide, think of beforehand a) to provide for one b) to
take thought for, care for a thing)
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John 14:26
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father
will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all
things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Ecclesiasticus 24:1
“Wisdom shall praise herself, and shall glory in the midst of her
people.”
Ecclesiasticus 24:8
Ecclesiasticus 24:10
“In the holy tabernacle I served before him; and so was I estab,
lished in Sion.”
1 Corinthians 2:7-10
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they
known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared
for them that love him.
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10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit
searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
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3 And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall say
within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision,
and a proverb of reproach:
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2. In that day shall the Most High rise up to execute the great judg,
ment upon all sinners, and to commit the guardianship of all the
righteous and holy to the holy angels, that they may protect them as
the apple of an eye, until every evil and every crime be annihilated.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place:
and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD
for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives,
whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
2 Baruch 13:9-12
13:9 Therefore, HE did not spare HIS own sons first, but HE af,
flicted them as HIS enemies because they sinned.
13:10 Therefore, they were once punished, that they might be for,
given.
13:11 But now, you nations and tribes, you are guilty, because you
have trodden the earth all this time, and because you have used crea,
tion unrighteously.
13:12 For I have always benefited you, and you have always denied
the beneficence.
Job 9:24
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the
faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
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2 Esdras 6:9
9 For Esau is the end of the world, and Jacob is the beginning of it
that followeth.
Isaiah 14:1
1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Is,
rael, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be
joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
Maccabees
[1] After Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian, who came from
the land of Kittim, had defeated Darius, king of the Persians and the
Medes, he succeeded him as king. (He had previously become king
of Greece.)
[3] He advanced to the ends of the earth, and plundered many na,
tions. When the earth became quiet before him, he was exalted, and
his heart was lifted up.
[4] He gathered a very strong army and ruled over countries, na,
tions, and princes, and they became tributary to him.
[5]
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[7] And after Alexander had reigned twelve years, he died.
[8]
[9] They all put on crowns after his death, and so did their sons af,
ter them for many years; and they caused many evils on the earth.
[10]
In those days lawless men came forth from Israel, and misled
many, saying, "Let us go and make a covenant with the Gentiles
round about us, for since we separated from them many evils have
come upon us."
[13] and some of the people eagerly went to the king. He author,
ized them to observe the ordinances of the Gentiles.
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When Antiochus saw that his kingdom was established, he deter,
mined to become king of the land of Egypt, that he might reign over
both kingdoms.
[17] So he invaded Egypt with a strong force, with chariots and ele,
phants and cavalry and with a large fleet.
[19] And they captured the fortified cities in the land of Egypt, and
he plundered the land of Egypt.
[20]
[21] He arrogantly entered the sanctuary and took the golden altar,
the lampstand for the light, and all its utensils.
[22] He took also the table for the bread of the Presence, the cups
for drink offerings, the bowls, the golden censers, the curtain, the
crowns, and the gold decoration on the front of the temple; he
stripped it all off.
[23] He took the silver and the gold, and the costly vessels; he took
also the hidden treasures which he found.
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maidens and young men became faint,
Two years later the king sent to the cities of Judah a chief collec,
tor of tribute, and he came to Jerusalem with a large force.
[31] He plundered the city, burned it with fire, and tore down its
houses and its surrounding walls.
[32] And they took captive the women and children, and seized the
cattle.
[33] Then they fortified the city of David with a great strong wall
and strong towers, and it became their citadel.
[34] And they stationed there a sinful people, lawless men. These
strengthened their position;
[35] they stored up arms and food, and collecting the spoils of Jeru,
salem they stored them there, and became a great snare.
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[37] On every side of the sanctuary they shed innocent blood;
Then the king wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be one
people,
[43] All the Gentiles accepted the command of the king. Many even
from Israel gladly adopted his religion; they sacrificed to idols and
profaned the sabbath.
[44] And the king sent letters by messengers to Jerusalem and the
cities of Judah; he directed them to follow customs strange to the
land,
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[46] to defile the sanctuary and the priests,
[47] to build altars and sacred precincts and shrines for idols, to
sacrifice swine and unclean animals,
[49] so that they should forget the law and change all the
ordinances.
[50] "And whoever does not obey the command of the king shall
die."
[51]
[52] Many of the people, every one who forsook the law, joined
them, and they did evil in the land;
[53] they drove Israel into hiding in every place of refuge they had.
[54]
Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred and forty-
fifth year, they erected a desolating sacrilege upon the altar of burnt
offering. They also built altars in the surrounding cities of Judah,
[55] and burned incense at the doors of the houses and in the
streets.
[56] The books of the law which they found they tore to pieces and
burned with fire.
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[57] Where the book of the covenant was found in the possession
of any one, or if any one adhered to the law, the decree of the king
condemned him to death.
[58] They kept using violence against Israel, against those found
month after month in the cities.
[59] And on the twenty-fifth day of the month they offered sacri,
fice on the altar which was upon the altar of burnt offering.
[60] According to the decree, they put to death the women who
had their children circumcised,
[61] and their families and those who circumcised them; and they
hung the infants from their mothers' necks.
[62]
But many in Israel stood firm and were resolved in their hearts not
to eat unclean food.
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Gentiles have made law to keep us poor, they have gained all the
wealth for themselves because this is their lot.
“Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is
found to be nothing worth.”
Deuteronomy 28:44
44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall
be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. They lend to us.
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D o not stab yourself with the sword of sin.118 Do not burn your,
self, O wretched one, with the fire of pleasure. Do not surrender your,
self to barbarians like a prisoner, or to savage beasts that want to
trample you. For they are like lions roaring very loudly. Don’t be a
corpse, or they will trample you. Since you are human, it is possible
for you through reasoning to conquer them.
3. Those who inherit the dead are themselves dead, and they in,
herit the dead. Those who inherit the living are alive, and they inherit
both the living and the dead. The dead do not inherit anything. For
how will the dead inherit? When the dead inherits the living, he shall
not die but rather the dead shall instead live. (interlinear)
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Those who are heirs to the dead are themselves dead, and they in,
herit the dead. Those who are heirs to what is living are alive, and
they are heirs to both what is living and the dead. The dead are heirs
to nothing. For how can he who is dead inherit? If he who is dead in,
herits what is living he will not die, but he who is dead will live even
more.
A Gentile does not die, for he has never lived in order that he may
die. He who has believed in the truth has found life, and this one is
in danger of dying, for he is alive. 5. The system is contrived, the cit,
ies are constructed, the dead are carried out. (asyndeta; Isa 40:17,
Rev/Ap 18, Lk 9:60, Ph 105
. Since Christ came, the world has been created, the cities
adorned, the dead carried out.
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who are worthy are guarded, but those who [are] not from this kind
[are mere things] and they [return] to [their own root. One deriving
from] the fifth is [satisfied with those of the Aeonic] Copies. [For
each] of the aeons [there is] a baptism [of this sort].
Psalms 91:4-12
4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt
thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the ar,
row that flieth by day;
6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the de,
struction that wasteth at noonday.
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right
hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the
wicked.
9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the
most High, thy habitation;
10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come
nigh thy dwelling.
11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all
thy ways.
12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot
against a stone.
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Romans 9:13
Deuteronomy 7:6
6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD
thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above
all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Exodus 15:3
Isaiah 63:3-4
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was
none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them
in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments,
and I will stain all my raiment.
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4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my re,
deemed is come.
2 Esdras 6-54-56
54 And after these, Adam also, whom thou madest lord of all thy
creatures: of him come we all, and the people also whom thou hast
chosen.
55 All this have I spoken before thee, O Lord, because thou madest
the world for our sakes
56 As for the other people, which also come of Adam, thou hast
said that they are nothing, but be like unto spittle: and hast likened
the abundance of them unto a drop that falleth from a vessel.
Isaiah 45:7
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create
evil: I the LORD do all these things.
2 Maccabees 6:12-16
12 Now I beseech those that read this book, that they be not dis,
couraged for these calamities, but that they judge those punish,
ments not to be for destruction, but for a chastening of our nation.
14 For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently for,
beareth to punish, till they be come to the fulness of their sins, so
dealeth he with us,
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15 Lest that, being come to the height of sin, afterwards he should
take vengeance of us.
1 Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O chil,
dren of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the
land of Egypt, saying,
2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I
will punish you for all your iniquities.
Joel 2:27
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Romans 2:11
Isaiah 28:10
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but
of God that sheweth mercy.
17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same pur,
pose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and
that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
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22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power
known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted
to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the
vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of
the Gentiles?
2 Baruch 13:4-12
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Revelation 11:8
8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,
which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was
crucified.
Genesis 13:14
14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated
from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where
thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
Revelation 11:9-1
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations
shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suf,
fer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and
make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two
prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
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11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God en,
tered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell
upon them which saw them.
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them,
Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and
their enemies beheld them.
Genesis 15:13-14
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall
be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and
they shall afflict them four hundred years;
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and af,
terward shall they come out with great substance.
Daniel 7:25-27
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and
shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change
times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time
and times and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his domin,
ion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the king,
dom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the
saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
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Daniel 9:11-12
11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that
they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon
us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of
God, because we have sinned against him.
Lamentation 5:7
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their in,
iquities.
Isaiah 14:21
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21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fa,
thers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of
the world with cities.
Jeremiah 50:33
33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the
children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them
captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
Jeremiah 30:
16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all
thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they
that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give
for a prey.
17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy
wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying,
This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
Revelation 3:9
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Esau's blessing
Genesis 27:39-40
39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy
dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven
from above;
40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother;
and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that
thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Psalms 10:2-5
2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be
taken in the devices that they have imagined.
3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the
covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek
after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
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5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out
of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
Psalm 73:12
12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they
increase in riches.
Nag Hammadi
People will prefer darkness to light and death to life. No one will
gaze up to heaven. The godly will be considered mad, and the im,
pious will be honored
as wise. The coward will be considered strong, and the good per,
son will be punished
as a criminal.
“Concerning the soul, and the things of the soul, and whatever
has to do with immortality,
along with the rest of what I have explained to you, Tat, Ascle,
pius, and Ammon,19 these things will not only be considered ridicu,
lous, they will also be regarded as
being nothing. Believe me, people like this will expose them,
selves to the ultimate
contrary to nature.
Lamentations 4:21-22
“Blessed are you who weep and are oppressed by those who have
no hope, for you will
“Watch and pray that you may not remain in the flesh, but that
you may leave the bondage
of the bitterness of this life. And when you pray, you will find rest,
for you have
left pain and reproach behind. When you leave the pains and the
passions of the body, you will receive rest from the Good One. You
will reign with
the King, you united with him and he with you, from now on and
forever. Amen.”
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Luke 21:24-25
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led
away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down
of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the
stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea
and the waves roaring;
2 Esdras 6:9
“For Esau is the end of the world, and Iacob is the beginning of it
that followeth.”
Joel 2:31
“The Sun shall be turned into darkeness, and the Moon into blood,
before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come.”
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2 Edras 5:1-3
3 And the land that thou seest now to have roote, shalt thou see
wasted suddenly.
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of
God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that
obey not the gospel of God?
19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God com,
mit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful
Creator.
(Jeremiah 25:29)
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Daniel 9:11
11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that
they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon
us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of
God, because we have sinned against him.
4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing
before the God of the earth.
7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast
that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against
them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,
which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was
crucified.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations
shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suf,
fer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and
make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two
prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
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11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God en,
tered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell
upon them which saw them.
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them,
Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and
their enemies beheld them.
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth
part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven
thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the
God of heaven.
Matthew 24:29-31
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see
the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great
glory.
15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall
withdraw their shining.
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16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from
Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD
will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Is,
rael.
20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation
to generation.
21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the
LORD dwelleth in Zion.
Amos 8:9-10
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I
will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in
the clear day:
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs
into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and
baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an
only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
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Thessalonians 5:2-9
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruc,
tion cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and
they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should over,
take you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we
are not of the night, nor of darkness.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken
are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breast,
plate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
Luke 1:68
68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and re,
deemed his people,
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Acts 5:30-31
31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a
Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
Mark 3:28-29
28 Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of
men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:
29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never
forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.
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Ecclesiasticus 24:1
1 Wisdom shall praise herself, and shall glory in the midst of her
people.
2 In the congregation of the most High shall she open her mouth,
and triumph before his power.
3 I came out of the mouth of the most High, and covered the earth
as a cloud.
6 In the waves of the sea and in all the earth, and in every people
and nation, I got a possession.
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12 And I took root in an honourable people, even in the portion of
the Lord's inheritance.
"I tell you in very truth, Man is the Son of the Earthly Mother, and
from her did the Son of Man receive his whole body, even as the
body of the newborn babe is born of the womb of his mother. I tell
you truly, you are one with the Earthly Mother; she is in you, and you
in her. Of her were you born, in her do you live, and to her shall you
return again. Keep, therefore, her laws, for none can live long, neither
be happy, but he who honors his Earthly Mother and does her laws.
For your breath is her breath; your blood her blood; your bone her
bone; your flesh her flesh; your bowels her bowels; your eyes and
your ears are her eyes and her ears.
Proverbs 1:8
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the
law of thy mother:
Proverbs 1:7
Proverbs 6:20-21
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21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy
neck.
18 And love is the keeping of her laws; and the giving heed unto
her laws is the assurance of incorruption;
22 As for wisdom, what she is, and how she came up, I will tell you,
and will not hide mysteries from you: but will seek her out from the
beginning of her nativity, and bring the knowledge of her into light,
and will not pass over the truth.
And wisdom was with thee: which knoweth thy works, and was pre,
sent when thou madest the world, and knew what was acceptable in
thy sight, and right in thy commandments.
10 O send her out of thy holy heavens, and from the throne of thy
glory, that being present she may labour with me, that I may know
what is pleasing unto thee.
11 For she knoweth and understandeth all things, and she shall
lead me soberly in my doings, and preserve me in her power.
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Galatians 4:1-7
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his
Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive
the adoption of sons.
6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his
Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
From now on, then, my child, return to your divine nature. Cast
from [yourself] these
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evil, deceiving friends. [Take for] yourself Christ, the true friend,
[91] as a good teacher. Cast death from yourself, which had become a
father to you. For
death did not exist at first, nor will it exist in the end. But since
you cast from
yourself God, the holy Father, the true life, the spring of life, you
have consequently
My child, return to your first father, God, and Wisdom, your
mother, from whom22 you came into being
from the beginning. Return, that you might fight against all
saying, “Come to me, all of you foolish ones, that you may receive
as a gift the understanding
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What else is evil darkness except familiarity with forgetfulness?
Cast your anxiety
upon a throne of perception. These are yours, and you will re,
ceive them again on high
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28 And do thou command the children of Israel and let them ob,
serve the sign of this covenant for their generations as an eternal or,
dinance, and they will not be rooted out of the land.
30 For Ishmael and his sons and his brothers and Esau, the Lord
did not cause to approach Him, and he chose them not because they
are the children of Abraham, because He knew them, but He chose
Israel to be His people.
31 And He sanctified it, and gathered it from amongst all the chil,
dren of men; for there are many nations and many peoples, and all
are His, and over all hath He placed spirits in authority to lead them
astray from Him.
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32But over Israel He did not appoint any angel or spirit, for He
alone is their ruler, and He will preserve them and require them at
the hand of His angels and His spirits, and at the hand of all His pow,
ers in order that He may preserve them and bless them, and that
they may be His and He may be theirs from henceforth for ever.
1 John 4:1-6
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they
are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the
world.
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in
the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye
have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the
world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the
world heareth them.
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The Book of Enoch 15:8-10
8 And now, the giants who were born from body and flesh will be
called Evil Spirits on the Earth, and on the Earth will be their
dwelling.
9 And evil spirits came out from their flesh, because from above
they were created, from the Holy Watchers was their origin and first
foundation. Evil spirits they will be on Earth and ‘Spirits of the Evil
Ones’ they will be called.
(Baruch 3:24-28)
24 How great, Israel, is the house of God, how wide his domain,
27 God's choice did not fall on these, he did not show them the
way of knowledge;
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8 And the chief of the spirits, Mastêmâ, came and said: 'Lord, Crea,
tor, let some of them remain before me, and let them harken to my
voice, and do all that I shall say unto them; for if some of them are
not left to me, I shall not be able to execute the power of my will on
the sons of men; for these are for corruption and leading astray be,
fore my judgment, for great is the wickedness of the sons of men.'
9 And He said: Let the tenth part of them remain before him, and
let nine parts descend into the place of condemnation.'
Sirach 17:17
"And your true brothers are all those who do the will of your Heav,
enly Father and of your Earthly Mother, and not your brothers by
blood. I tell you truly, that your true brothers in the will of the Heav,
enly Father and of the Earthly Mother will love you a thousand times
more than your brothers by blood. For since the days of Cain and
Abel, when brothers by blood transgressed the will of God, there is
no true brotherhood by blood. And brothers do unto brothers as do
strangers. Therefore, I say to you, love your true brothers in the will
of God a thousand times more than your brothers by blood.
Mark 3:31-35
31 There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing
without, sent unto him, calling him.
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32 And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Be,
hold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
brethren?
34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and
said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
Jeremiah 16:19
Matthew 24:30
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see
the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great
glory.
Hebrews 1:14
14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for
them who shall be heirs of salvation?
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1 Corinthians 2:12-13
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given
to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wis,
dom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiri,
tual things with spiritual.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them
which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who
is the image of God, should shine unto them.
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Revelation 12 Sign
Revelation 12
2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to
be delivered.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did
cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman
which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it
was born.
5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations
with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his
throne.
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6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place
prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two
hundred and threescore days.
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in
heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the
Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out
into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the
word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the
death.
13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he
persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that
she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nour,
ished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the ser,
pent.
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15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the
woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her
mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his
mouth.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make
war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of
God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
1 And it was in the night that Abram was born, that all the ser,
vants of Terah, and all the wise men of Nimrod, and his conjurors
came and ate and drank in the house of Terah, and they rejoiced
with him on that night.
2 And when all the wise men and conjurors went out from the
house of Terah, they lifted up their eyes toward heaven that night to
look at the stars, and they saw, and behold one very large star came
from the east and ran in the heavens, and he swallowed up the four
stars from the four sides of the heavens.
3 And all the wise men of the king and his conjurors were aston,
ished at the sight, and the sages understood this matter, and they
knew its import.
4 And they said to each other, This only betokens the child that
has been born to Terah this night, who will grow up and be fruitful,
and multiply, and possess all the earth, he and his children for ever,
and he and his seed will slay great kings, and inherit their lands.
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5 And the wise men and conjurors went home that night, and in
the morning all these wise men and conjurors rose up early, and as,
sembled in an appointed house.
Micah 4: 13
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn
iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces
many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and
their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
2 Kings 18:11
11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and
put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cit,
ies of the Medes:
Ezekiel 37:19
19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the
stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Is,
rael his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Ju,
dah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
Prophesied that the other nations would come in and take our
land and claim it as their own.
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Ezekiel 36:5-8
5 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jeal,
ousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against
all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with
the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a
prey.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand,
Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
Ezekiel 37:10
Revelation 11:11
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God en,
tered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell
upon them which saw them.
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Revelation 3:9
Psalms 50:19
19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Psalms 83:2-8
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee
have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and con,
sulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a na,
tion; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are con,
federate against thee:
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabi,
tants of Tyre;
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8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of
Lot. Selah.
2 Esdras 2:7
The stars are foreshadowing the future of Israel and the gentiles.
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Genesis 15:13-14
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall
be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and
they shall afflict them four hundred years;
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and af,
terward shall they come out with great substance.
Apocalypse of Abraham
Hear therefore, Abraham, and see, for behold, in the seventh gen,
eration from you shall they leave the land of their slavery, after they
have been ill-treated as it were for an hour of the age of ungodli,
ness, and the nation whom they shall serve I will judge."
Matthew 16:4
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4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and
there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet
Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
5 Behold, saith the Lord, I will bring plagues upon the world; the
sword, famine, death, and destruction.
Deuteronomy 28:59
59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the
plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance,
and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
11 But I will bring them with a mighty hand and a stretched out
arm, and smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all the
land thereof.
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Apocrypha: 2 Esdras Chapter 16
20 But for all these things they shall not turn from their wicked,
ness, nor be always mindful of the scourges.
22 For many of them that dwell upon earth shall perish of famine;
and the other, that escape the hunger, shall the sword destroy.
15 For the sword and their destruction draweth nigh, and one peo,
ple shall stand up and fight against another, and swords in their
hands.
16 For there shall be sedition among men, and invading one an,
other; they shall not regard their kings nor princes, and the course
of their actions shall stand in their power.
19 A man shall have no pity upon his neighbour, but shall destroy
their houses with the sword, and spoil their goods, because of the
lack of bread, and for great tribulation.
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Matthew 10:34
58 They that be in the mountains shall die of hunger, and eat their
own flesh, and drink their own blood, for very hunger of bread, and
thirst of water.
Deuteronomy 28:53
53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy
sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee,
in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall dis,
tress thee:
Jeremiah 50:28
28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Baby,
lon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the venge,
ance of his temple.
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Jeremiah 51:56
56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and
her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the
LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.
Jeremiah 51:11
11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath
raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is
against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the
LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah 51:29-30
29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the
LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Baby,
lon a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have re,
mained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as
women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
Luke 21:10-13
10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom:
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12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and per,
secute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons,
being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
2 Esdras 9:3-5
4 Then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of
those things from the days that were before thee, even from the be,
ginning.
5 For like as all that is made in the world hath a beginning and an
end, and the end is manifest:
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And on that day the heart of many will harden and they will flee
from him, saying, "This is not the Christ." The Christ does not kill
the righteous. He does not pursue men so that he might seek them,
but he persuades them with signs and wonders.
On that day the Christ will pity those who are his won. And he will
send from heaven his sixty-four thousand angels, each of whom has
six wings. The sound will move heaven and earth when they give
praise and glorify. Now those upon whose foreheads the name of
Christ is written and upon whose hand is the seal, both the small
and the great, will be taken up on their wings and lifted up before
his wrath.
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Then Gabriel and Uriel will become a pillar of light leading them
into the holy land. It will be granted to them to eat from the tree of
life/ They will wear white garments . . . And angels will watch over
them. They will not thirst, nor will the son of lawlessness be able to
prevail over the.
Isaiah 6:2
2 Above it stood the seraphim's: each one had six wings; with
twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and
with twain he did fly.
Revelation 4:8
8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and
they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying,
Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to
come.
Matthew 24:30-31
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see
the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great
glory.
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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha -Apocalypse of Elijah, Natural dis,
asters which follow the removal of the righteous
And on that day the earth will be disturbed, and the sun will
darken, and peace will be removed from the earth. The birds will fall
on the earth, dead. The earth will be dry. The waters of the sea will
dry up. The sinners will groan upon the earth saying, "What have
you done to us, O son of lawlessness, saying I am the Christ, when
you are the devil?" You are unable to save yourself so that you
might save us. You produced signs in our presence until you alien,
ated us from the Christ who created us. Woe to us because we lis,
tened to you. Lo now we will die in a famine. When indeed is now
the trace of a righteous one and will worship him, or where indeed
is the one who will teach us and we will appeal to him. Now indeed
we will be wrathfully destroyed because we disobeyed God. We went
to the deep places of the sea, and we did not find water. We dug in
the rivers and papyrus reeds, and we did not find water.
Psalms 91:11-12
11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all
thy ways.
12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot
against a stone.
Revelation 11:9-13
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations
shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suf,
fer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
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10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and
make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two
prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God en,
tered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell
upon them which saw them.
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them,
Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and
their enemies beheld them.
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth
part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven
thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the
God of heaven.
1 Thessalonians 5:9
1 Thessalonians 4:17
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2 Esdras 15:11
But I will bring them with a mighty hand, and a stretched out
arme, and smite Egypt with plagues as before, and wil destroy al the
land thereof.
Exodus 3:20
20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my won,
ders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you
go.
Genesis 45:10
10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be
near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and
thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
And Yoceph had given to his father and to his brothers as a gift
the right of dwelling in the land of Goshen and in Ra'amcec and all
the region round about, which he ruled over before Phar'oh. And
Yashar'el and his sons dwelt in the land of Goshen, the best part of
the land of Mitsrayim and Yashar'el was one hundred and thirty
years old when he came into Mitsrayim. JUBILEES 45:6
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Exodus 9:25-26
25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was
in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of
the field, and brake every tree of the field.
Baruch2:34-35
34 And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with
an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall
bee lords of it, and I will increase them, and they shall not be
diminished.
2 BARUCH 40
40:1 The last ruler who is left alive at that time will be bound,
whereas the entire host will be destroyed. And they will carry Him on
Mount Zion, and MY Anointed One will convict him of all his wicked
deeds and will assemble and set before him all the works of his
hosts.
40:2 And after these things He will kill him and protect the rest of
MY people who will be found in the place that I have chosen.
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Isaiah 65:12-14
12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow
down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer;
when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did
choose that wherein I delighted not.
14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry
for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
46 Even the bones of their first born who had died before this and
whom they had buried in their houses, were raked up by the dogs of
Egypt on that night and dragged before the Egyptians and cast be,
fore them.
47 And all the Egyptians saw this evil which had suddenly come
upon them, and all the Egyptians cried out with a loud voice.
48 And all the families of Egypt wept upon that night, each man
for his son and each man for his daughter, being the first born, and
the tumult of Egypt was heard at a distance on that night.
49 And Bathia the daughter of Pharaoh went forth with the king on
that night to seek Moses and Aaron in their houses, and they found
them in their houses, eating and drinking and rejoicing with all
Israel.
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50 And Bathia said to Moses, Is this the reward for the good which
I have done to thee, who have reared thee and stretched thee out,
and thou hast brought this evil upon me and my father's house?
51 And Moses said to her, Surely ten plagues did the Lord bring
upon Egypt; did any evil accrue to thee from any of them? did one of
them affect thee? and she said, No.
52 And Moses said to her, Although thou art the first born to thy
mother, thou shalt not die, and no evil shall reach thee in the midst
of Egypt.
53 And she said, What advantage is it to me, when I see the king,
my brother, and all his household and subjects in this evil, whose
first born perish with all the first born of Egypt?
54 And Moses said to her, Surely thy brother and his household,
and subjects, the families of Egypt, would not hearken to the words
of the Lord, therefore did this evil come upon them.
Isaiah 49:10
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun
smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by
the springs of water shall he guide them.
Revelation 7:16-17
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16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither
shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed
them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Jeremiah 30:7-11
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the
time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts,
that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds,
and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king,
whom I will raise up unto them.
11 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make
a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet I will not
make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will
not leave thee altogether unpunished.
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Jeremiah 23:6-8
6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely:
and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall
no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Is,
rael out of the land of Egypt;
8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed
of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all coun,
tries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own
land.
Ezekiel 38:11
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the
desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are
gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods,
that dwell in the midst of the land.
Genesis 15:14
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and af,
terward shall they come out with great substance.
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Daniel 12:1
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which
standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of
trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that
same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one
that shall be found written in the book.
Ezekiel 38:13-23
13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the
young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a
spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away
silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely,
shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts,
thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a
great company, and a mighty army:
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in
old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in
those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
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18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall
come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury
shall come up in my face.
20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and
the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the
earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake
at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the
steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my moun,
tains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his
brother.
22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood;
and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many
people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones,
fire, and brimstone.
Ezekiel 39:1-2
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2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee,
and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring
thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine
arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
The Removal of the Righteous, the Left Behind story from a He,
brew!!
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plural syzygies
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Revelation 22
16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in
the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the
bright and morning star.
Daniel 10:13
Jude 1:9
Revelation 12:7
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
Acts 14:6-18
6 They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Ly,
caonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:
8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being
a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:
9 The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and
perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
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10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped
and walked.
11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up
their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come
down to us in the likeness of men.
13 Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought
oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice
with the people.
14 Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent
their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,
18 And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that
they had not done sacrifice unto them.
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Moon represents Israel. Because our festivals were during the
phases of the moon.
1 Chronicles 23:31
31 And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths,
in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to
the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:
Psalms 81:3
JUPITER
SATURN
SATAN
MERCURY
VENUS
MARS
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MICHAEL (THE WARROIR ANGEL)
MOON
ISRAEL
Luke 1:26-31
26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel (Mercury) was sent
from God (Jupiter) unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art
highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among
women.
29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast
in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found
favor with God.
31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a
son, and shalt call his name JESUS. (Venus)
Luke 21:25
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the
stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea
and the waves roaring;
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Daniel 12:1
1 And at that time shall Michael (Mars) stand up, the great prince
which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a
time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to
that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every
one that shall be found written in the book.
1Thessalonians 4:16-17
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the
dead in Christ shall rise first:
Alpha (Α or α) and
omega (Ω or ω) are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet,
and a title of Christ and God in the Book of Revelation. This pair of
letters are used as Christian symbols,[1] and are often combined
with the Cross, Chi-rho, or other Christian symbols.
On that day the Christ will pity those who are his won. And he will
send from heaven his sixty-four thousand angels, each of whom has
six wings. The sound will move heaven and earth when they give
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praise and glorify. Now those upon whose foreheads the name of
Christ is written and upon whose hand is the seal, both the small
and the great, will be taken up on their wings and lifted up before
his wrath.
Then Gabriel and Uriel will become a pillar of light leading them
into the holy land. It will be granted to them to eat from the tree of
life/ They will wear white garments . . . And angels will watch over
them. They will not thirst, nor will the son of lawlessness be able to
prevail over the.
Revelation 15:1
1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven an,
gels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath
of God.
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Mark 13:24-30
24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be dark,
ened, and the moon shall not give her light,
25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in
heaven shall be shaken.
26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds
with great power and glory.
27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his
elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the
uttermost part of heaven.
28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet ten,
der, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
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30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all
these things be done.
1 Peter 4:17-18
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of
God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that
obey not the gospel of God?
Jeremiah 25:29
Mark 13:25-30
25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in
heaven shall be shaken.
26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds
with great power and glory.
27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his
elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the
uttermost part of heaven.
28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet ten,
der, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
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29 So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to
pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all
these things be done.
Luke 21:24-32
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led
away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down
of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the
stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea
and the waves roaring;
26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those
things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall
be shaken.
27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with
power and great glory.
28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up,
and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the
trees;
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own
selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
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32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all
be fulfilled.
Psalms of Solomon
For the heavens withheld the rain from dropping upon the earth,
For there was none among them that wrought righteousness and
justice;
From the chief of them to the least of them all were sinful;
The king was a transgressor, and the judge disobedient, and the
people sinful.
Behold, O Lord, and raise up unto them their king, the son of
David,
At the time in the which Thou seest, O God, that he may reign
over Israel Thy servant.
And gird him with strength, that he may shatter unrighteous rul,
ers,
And that he may purge Jerusalem from nations that trample her
down to destruction.
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He shall destroy the godless nations with the word of his mouth;
And he shall judge the tribes of the people that has been
Nor shall there dwell with them any man that knoweth
wickedness,
For he shall know them, that they are all sons of their God.
And he shall divide them according to their tribes upon the land,
And neither sojourner nor alien shall sojourn with them any
more.
Luke 21:25-28
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the
stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea
and the waves roaring;
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26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those
things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall
be shaken.
27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with
power and great glory.
28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up,
and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Matthew 24:30
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see
the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great
glory.
Also as for the glory of those who have now been justified in my
Torah, who have had understanding in their life, and who have
planted in their heart the root of wisdom, then their splendour shall
be glorified in changes, and the form of their face shall be turned
into the light of their beauty, that they may be able to acquire and re,
ceive the world which does not die, which is then promised to them.
For over this above all shall those who come then lament that they
rejected my Torah and stopped their ears that they might not hear
wisdom or receive understanding. When therefore they see those,
over whom they are now exalted, but who shall then be exalted and
glorified more than they, they shall respectively be transformed the
latter into the splendour of angels, and the former shall yet more
waste away in wonder at the visions and in the beholding of the
forms. For they shall first behold and afterwards depart to be tor,
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mented. But those who have been saved by their works and to whom
the Torah has been now a hope and understanding an expectation
and wisdom a confidence shall wonders appear in their time. For
they shall behold the world which is now invisible to them and they
shall behold the time which is now hidden from them:
And time shall no longer age them. For in the heights of that
world shall they dwell and they shall be made like unto the angels
and be made equal to the stars, And they shall be changed into
every form they desire, from beauty into loveliness, and from light
into the splendour of glory. 2 BARUK 51:3-10
For what then have men lost their life and for what have those
who were on the earth exchanged their soul? For then they chose
not for themselves this time which beyond the reach of anguish
could not pass away: but they chose for themselves that time whose
issues are full of lamentations and evils; and they denied the world
which ages not those who come to it; and they rejected the time of
glory so that they shall not come to the honour of which I told you
before. 2 BARUK 51:15-16
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1John 4:1-3
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they
are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the
world.
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in
the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye
have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the
world.
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John 4:23-24
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers
shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh
such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in
spirit and in truth.
your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He
was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, be,
cause there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh
of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
John 8:33
John 8:37-47
37 I know that you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are look,
ing for a way to kill me, because you have no room for my word. 38 I
am telling you what I have seen in the Father's presence, and you are
doing what you have heard from your father."
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are doing the works of your own father.""We are not illegitimate chil,
dren," they protested. "The only Father we have is God himself."
42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love
me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God
sent me. 43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are un,
able to hear what I say. 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and
you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from
the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him.
When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the
father of lies. 45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! 46
Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why
don't you believe me? 47 Whoever belongs to God hears what God
says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God."
Romans 9:7
7 Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham's
children. On the contrary, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will
be reckoned."
John 14:17
17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it nei,
ther sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with
you and will be in you.
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The Letter of First Clement 39
Nag Hammadi
1Clem 49:2
1Clem 49:3
1Clem 49:4
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1Clem 49:5
were all the elect of God made perfect; without love nothing is
well
pleasing to God:
1Clem 49:6
love which He had toward us, Jesus Christ our Lord hath given His
blood for us by the will of God, and His flesh for our flesh and His
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Redemption is at hand
Hebrews! Don't be
dismayed at the signs of
Saturday, November 18, 2017
1:39 PM
Jeremiah 10:2
2 This is what the LORD says: "Do not learn the ways of the na,
tions or be terrified by signs in the heavens, though the nations are
terrified by them.
Genesis 1:14
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to sepa,
rate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sa,
cred times, and days and years,
NASB Translation
been shattered (3), break (1), cracked (1), dismay (1), dismayed (26),
frighten (1), shatter (1), shattered (9), stood in awe (1), terrified (8), wane
(1).
dis·may
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disˈmā/
verb
synonyms:
informalrattle, faze
1 And it was in the night that Abram was born, that all the ser,
vants of Terah, and all the wise men of Nimrod, and his conjurors
came and ate and drank in the house of Terah, and they rejoiced
with him on that night.
2 And when all the wise men and conjurors went out from the
house of Terah, they lifted up their eyes toward heaven that night to
look at the stars, and they saw, and behold one very large star came
from the east and ran in the heavens, and he swallowed up the four
stars from the four sides of the heavens.
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3 And all the wise men of the king and his conjurors were aston,
ished at the sight, and the sages understood this matter, and they
knew its import.
4 And they said to each other, This only betokens the child that
has been born to Terah this night, who will grow up and be fruitful,
and multiply, and possess all the earth, he and his children for ever,
and he and his seed will slay great kings, and inherit their lands.
5 And the wise men and conjurors went home that night, and in
the morning all these wise men and conjurors rose up early, and as,
sembled in an appointed house.
6 And they spoke and said to each other, Behold the sight that we
saw last night is hidden from the king, it has not been made known
to him.
7 And should this thing get known to the king in the latter days,
he will say to us, Why have you concealed this matter from me, and
then we shall all suffer death; therefore, now let us go and tell the
king the sight which we saw, and the interpretation thereof, and we
shall then remain clear.
Matthew 2:1-6
3 When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem
with him. 4 When he had called together all the people's chief priests
and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be
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born. 5 "In Bethlehem in Judea," they replied, "for this is what the
prophet has written:
6 " 'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least
among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will
shepherd my people Israel.'"
Matthew 2:16
Herod Antipas
Reign
4 BC – 39 AD
Predecessor
Successor
Agrippa I
Born
Before 20 BC
Died
After 39 AD
Gaul
Wives
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◦ Phasaelis, Daughter of Aretas IV
◦ Herodias
Dynasty
Herodian Dynasty
Father
Mother
Malthace
Antipas divorced his first wife Phasaelis, the daughter of King Are,
tas IV of Nabatea, in favour of Herodias, who had formerly been mar,
ried to his half-brother Herod II. (Antipas was Herod the Great's son
by Malthace, while Herod II was his son by Mariamne II.)[4][5] Accord,
ing to the New Testament Gospels, it was John the Baptist's condem,
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nation of this arrangement that led Antipas to have him arrested;
John was subsequently put to death in Machaerus. Besides provok,
ing his conflict with the Baptiser, the tetrarch's divorce added a per,
sonal grievance to previous disputes with Aretas over territory on
the border of Perea and Nabatea. The result was a war that proved
disastrous for Antipas; a Roman counter-offensive was ordered by
Tiberius, but abandoned upon that emperor's death in 37 AD. In 39
AD Antipas was accused by his nephew Agrippa I of conspiracy
against the new Roman emperor Caligula, who sent him into exile in
Gaul. Accompanied there by Herodias, he died at an unknown date.
The Gospel of Luke states that Jesus was first brought before Pon,
tius Pilate for trial, since Pilate was the governor of Roman Judea,
which encompassed Jerusalem where Jesus was arrested. Pilate ini,
tially handed him over to Antipas, in whose territory Jesus had been
most active, but Antipas sent him back to Pilate's court.
Yeshua will come back as the Lion of Judah, to redeem His people.
Matthew 24:30-31
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see
the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great
glory.
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Apocrypha: 2 Esdras Chapter 15:6-12
9 And therefore, saith the Lord, I will surely avenge them, and re,
ceive unto me all the innocent blood from among them.
11 But I will bring them with a mighty hand and a stretched out
arm, and smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all the
land thereof.
Micah 7:18-20
18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and pas,
seth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he re,
taineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will sub,
due our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of
the sea.
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20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abra,
ham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
Jeremiah 10:2
2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be
not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed
at them.
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1 Maccabees 1:15
1 Corinthians 7:18-19
circumcised.
1 Maccabees 1:11-15
11 In those days went there out of Israel wicked men, who per,
suaded many, saying, Let us go and make a covenant with the hea,
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then that are round about us: for since we departed from them we
have had much sorrow.
Ephesians 2:11-14
12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the
commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of prom,
ise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are
made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken
down the middle wall of partition between us;
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Galatians 2:7
7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircum,
cision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision
was unto Peter;
Acts 21:19-20
20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto
him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are
which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
John 10:16
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I
must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold,
and one shepherd.
John 7:34-35
34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither
ye cannot come.
35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that
we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gen,
tiles, and teach the Gentiles?
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2 Peter 3:16
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Matthew 7:1-2
2 Esdras 15:21
Revelation 18:5, 6, 8
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remem,
bered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her dou,
ble according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her
double.
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8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourn,
ing, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong
is the Lord God who judgeth her.
2 Esdras 15:5
5 Behold, saith the Lord, I will bring plagues upon the world; the
sword, famine, death, and destruction.
Deuteronomy 28:59
59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the
plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance,
and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
2 Esdras 15:6-9
9 And therefore, saith the Lord, I will surely avenge them, and re,
ceive unto me all the innocent blood from among them.
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Revelation 6:10-11
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy
and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that
dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was
said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until
their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as
they were, should be fulfilled.
Revelation 19:2
2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the
great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and
hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
2 Esdras 15:8
Deuteronomy 28:68
68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt (house of bondage)
again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt
see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies
for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
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Deuteronomy 28:46
46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and
upon thy seed for ever.
Daniel 9:11
11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that
they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon
us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of
God, because we have sinned against him.
2 Esdras 15:8-19
9 And therefore, saith the Lord, I will surely avenge them, and re,
ceive unto me all the innocent blood from among them.
11 But I will bring them with a mighty hand and a stretched out
arm, and smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all the
land thereof.
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13 They that till the ground shall mourn: for their seeds shall fail
through the blasting and hail, and with a fearful constellation.
15 For the sword and their destruction draweth nigh, and one peo,
ple shall stand up and fight against another, and swords in their
hands.
16 For there shall be sedition among men, and invading one an,
other; they shall not regard their kings nor princes, and the course
of their actions shall stand in their power.
19 A man shall have no pity upon his neighbour, but shall destroy
their houses with the sword, and spoil their goods, because of the
lack of bread, and for great tribulation.
Luke 21:16-17
2 Esdras 15:20-21
20 Behold, saith God, I will call together all the kings of the earth
to reverence me, which are from the rising of the sun, from the
south, from the east, and Libanus; to turn themselves one against an,
other, and repay the things that they have done to them.
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21 Like as they do yet this day unto my chosen, so will I do also,
and recompense in their bosom. Thus saith the Lord God;
2 Esdras 15:25-27
25 I will not spare them: go your way, ye children, from the power,
defile not my sanctuary.
26 For the Lord knoweth all them that sin against him, and there,
fore delivereth he them unto death and destruction.
27 For now are the plagues come upon the whole earth and ye
shall remain in them: for God shall not deliver you, because ye have
sinned against him.
2 Peter 2:9-10
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of unclean,
ness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed,
they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
Genesis 15:13-14
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall
be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and
they shall afflict them four hundred years;
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and af,
terward shall they come out with great substance.
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Zechariah 2:8-10
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent
me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you
toucheth the apple of his eye.
9 For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be
a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts
hath sent me.
10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will
dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
Isaiah 54:8
8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with
everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Re,
deemer.
Isaiah 51:22-23
22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the
cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of
trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more
drink it again:
23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which
have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast
laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went
over.
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10 Therefore hath he made two lots, one for the people of God,
and another for all the Gentiles.
11 And these two lots came at the hour, and time, and day of judg,
ment, before God among all nations.
Matthew 25:31-34
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy
angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall sepa,
rate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from
the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on
the left.
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34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye
blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world:
Matthew 25:35
Matthew 25:40
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto
you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it unto me.
2 BARUCH 72:1-6
72:1 Now, hear also about the bright waters which come at the
end after these black ones. This is the Word.
72:2 After the signs have come of which I have spoken to you
before, when the nations are moved and the time of MY Anointed
One comes, He will call all nations, and some of them He will spare,
and others He will kill.
72:3 These things will befall the nations which will be spared by
Him.
72:4 Every nation which has not known Yisrael and which has not
trodden down the seed of Yacob will live.
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72:5 And this is because some from all the nations have been sub,
jected to your people.
72:6 All those, now, who have ruled over you or have known you,
will be delivered up to the sword.
Genesis 12:2
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and
make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
8 And I will be a God to thee and thy son, and to thy son's son,
and to all thy seed: fear not, from henceforth and unto all genera,
tions of the earth I am thy God.'
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1 Clement 12:1-8
3 And so, the hospitable Rahab brought them inside and hid them
in the upper room under a pile of thatching straw.
4 When the king's men arrived and said, "Those who are scouting
out our land came into your house; bring them out, for so the king
has ordered," she replied, " The men you are seeking did come in to
see me, but they left right away and are going on down the road."
And she pointed them in the wrong direction.
5 And she said to the men, "I know full well that the Lord God is
handing this land over to you, for fear and trembling has seized its
inhabitants because of you. When you take the land, save me and
my father's household."
6 They said to her, 'It will be just as you have spoken to us. So,
when you know that we are approaching, gather all your family un,
der your roof and they will be saved. For whoever is found outside
the house will perish."
7 And they proceeded to give her a sign, that she should hang a
piece of scarlet from her house making it clear that it is through the
blood of the Lord that redemption will come to all who believe and
hope in God.
8 You see, loved ones, not only was faith found in the woman, but
prophecy as well.
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Act 10:1-2, 22
2 A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which
gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.
22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that
feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews,
was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his
house, and to hear words of thee.
And who are you, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephrayim, that you
have prophesied against us as today, and have said, that we should
not make war with the people of Yashar'el, because their ELOHIYM
will defend them? and who is elohiym but Nevukadne'tstsar? 'He will
send his power, and will destroy them from the face of the earth, and
their ELOHIYM shall not deliver them: but we his servants will de,
stroy them as one man; for they are not able to sustain the power of
our horses. For with them we will tread them under foot, and their
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mountains shall be drunken with their blood, and their fields shall
be filled with their dead bodies, and their footsteps shall not be able
to stand before us, for they shall utterly perish, says king Nevukad,
ne'tstsar, lord of all the earth: for he said, None of my words shall be
in vain. JUDITH 6:2-4
And when Achior had seen all that the ELOHIYM of Yashar'el had
done, he believed in ELOHIYM greatly, and circumcised the flesh of
his foreskin, and was joined unto the house of Yashar'el unto this
day. JUDITH 14:10
John 4:21-23
21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh,
when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship
the Father.
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers
shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh
such to worship him.
Isaiah 14:1-3
1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Is,
rael, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be
joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
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2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place:
and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD
for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives,
whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give
thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard
bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
Luke 19:27
27 But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign
over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
38 Jesus said, "Often you have desired to hear these sayings that I
am speaking to you, and you have no one else from whom to hear
them. There will be days when you will seek me and you will not find
me."
39 Jesus said, "The Pharisees and the scholars have taken the keys
of knowledge and have hidden them. They have not entered nor
have they allowed those who want to enter to do so.
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Deuteronomy 28:1
Daniel 9:11
11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that
they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon
us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of
God, because we have sinned against him.
Deuteronomy 28:46
46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and
upon thy seed for ever.
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Jeremiah 25:11
1 Esdras 8:77
77 And for our sins and our fathers' we with our brethren and our
kings and our priests were given up unto the kings of the earth, to
the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with shame, unto this day.
Psalms 83:2-6
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee
have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and con,
sulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a na,
tion; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are
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Jeremiah 17:4
Psalms of Solomon
18 (17) Thou hast uncovered their sins, that Thy judgement might
be manifest;
19 Thou hast wiped out their memorial from the earth. (18) God is
a righteous judge, And He is no respecter of persons.
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20 (19) For the nations reproached Jerusalem, trampling it down;
Her beauty was dragged down from the throne of glory.
22 (21) She put off the glorious diadem which God had set upon
her,
2 Clement 1:6-8
iron, the work of men, and our whole life was nothing but death.
We, therefore, who were surrounded with darkness, and who had our
sight filled with such gloom, have recovered our sight, having, ac,
cording to his will, laid aside the cloud that was around us.
1:7 For he hath had compassion upon us, and, pitying us, hath
saved us, having beheld in us much wandering and destruction,
when we had no hope of salvation except that which is from him.
1:8 For he hath called us when as yet we were not, and hath willed
us to be when we were nothing.
Revelation 11:7-9,11
7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast
that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against
them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
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8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,
which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was
crucified.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations
shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God
entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear
fell upon them which saw them.
John 14:26
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father
will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all
things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Baruch 2:27-35
27 O Lord our God, thou hast dealt with us after all thy goodness,
and according to all that great mercy of thine,
saying,
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30 For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiff,
necked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remem,
ber themselves.
31 And shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give them
an heart, and ears to hear:
32 And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think
upon my name,
33 And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds:
for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned
34 And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with
an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall
be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be
diminished.
Jeremiah 32:40
Hebrews 8:13
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Hebrews 8:8
For finding fault with them, he says, Behold, the days come, says
YAHUAH, when I will make a Renewed Covenant with the אתeth-
house of Yashar'el and with the אתeth-house of Yahudah: HEBREWS
8:8
Malachi 3:16
16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another:
and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance
was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that
thought upon his name.
17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day
when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth
his own son that serveth him.
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Matthew 7:6
6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your
pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and
turn again and rend you.
Matthew 13:45-46
46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and
sold all that he had, and bought it.
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dantly, (and) tied up for me a load large and (yet) light, which I myself
could carry, gold of Beth-Ellaya, and silver of Gazak the great, and ru,
bies of India, and agates from Beth-Kashan, and they furnished me
with the adamant, which can crush iron.
And they took off from me the glittering robe, which in their affec,
tion they made for me, and the purple toga, which was measured
(and) woven to my stature. And they made a compact with me,
9For the one who has placed the implanted gift of his covenant in
us knew these things. No one has learned a more reliable lesson
from me. But I know that you are worthy.
The Hymn
I.
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Forth-sent me with journey-provision.
II.
Chalcedonies of India,
III.
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And thence thou bring’st the one Pearl –
IV.
V.
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While he should sleep and should slumber.
To my fellow-lodgers a stranger.
VI.
VII.
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And became a slave to their king.
VIII.
IX.
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Give ear to the words of Our Letter!
X.
XI.
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I waked and arose from my deep sleep.
XII.
XIII.
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To the Light of our Home, to the Dawn-land.
XIV.
XV.
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Without my recalling its fashion, –
XVI.
XVII.
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With adamantine jewels
XVIII.
XIX.
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And me, too, my love urged forward
XX.
XXI.
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Of the King of Kings I should speed,
17 Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall
18 For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and
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19 Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we
may know his meekness, and prove his patience.
20 Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own say,
ing he shall be respected.
1 But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there
shall no torment touch them.
2 In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their depar,
ture is taken for misery,
a tomb. Stop being a tomb, and become a temple again, that up,
rightness and divinity
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may remain in you. Light the light within you, and don’t put it out.
For no one lights
Raise your dead who have died. For they were once living, and
they died on your103 account. Give them life, and they will live again.
For the tree of life 104 is Christ.
John 15:16
16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained
you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit
should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my
name, he may give it you.
John 15:19-20
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but be,
cause ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not
greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also perse,
cute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
John 14:26
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father
will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all
things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
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Matthew 7:6
6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your
pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and
turn again and rend you.
Matthew 13:45-46
46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and
sold all that he had, and bought it.
Hebrew 4:3
1 Corinthians 2:14-15
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of
God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned.
The Hymn of the Pearl: The Israelites journey from the upper ae,
ons to Earth.
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Obadiah 1:10
10 For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover
thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
Obadiah 1:13
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Obadiah 1:15-18
15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou
hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon
thine own head.
18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph
a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in
them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the
house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
Isaiah 51:22-23
22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the
cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of
trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more
drink it again:
23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which
have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast
laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went
over.
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88:89 Again I saw, when some of them forsook the house of their
Lord, and his tower; wandering on all sides, and growing blind,
88:90 I saw that the Lord of the sheep made a great slaughter
among them in their pasture, until they cried out to him in
88:92 I saw, too, that he forsook the house of their fathers, and
their tower; giving them all into the power of lions to tear and
88:93 Then I began to cry out with all my might, imploring the Lord
of the sheep, and showing him how the sheep were devoured by all
the beasts of prey.
devoured, swallowed up, and carried off; and leaving them in the
power of every beast for food. He called also seventy shepherds, and
resigned to them [the care of] the sheep, that they might overlook
them;
Proverbs 1:24
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26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear
cometh;
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall
seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of
the LORD:
88:96 I will tell you which of them shall be slain; these destroy. And
he delivered the sheep to them.
88:99 Of all the destruction [brought about by] each of the shep,
herds there shall be an account; and according to the number I will
cause a recital to be made before me, how many they have de,
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stroyed of their own heads, and how many they have delivered up to
destruction, that I may have this testimony against them; that I may
know all their proceedings; and that, delivering [the sheep] to them, I
may see what they will do; whether they will act as I have com,
manded them, or not.
88:100 [Of this], however, they shall be ignorant; neither shall you
make any explanation to them, neither shall you reprove them; but
there shall be an account of all the destruction [done] by them in
their respective seasons. Then they began to kill, and destroy more
than it was commanded them.
88:101 And they left the sheep in the power of the lions, so that
very many of them were devoured and swallowed up by lions and ti,
gers; and wild boars preyed upon them. That tower they burnt, and
overthrew that house.
Psalms 50:21
21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thought,
est that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove
thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
88:115 Moreover also all the sheep were blind, and could not see,
as were the shepherds likewise.
88:116 Thus were they delivered up to the shepherds for a great de,
struction, who trod them under foot, and devoured them.
88:117 Yet was their Lord silent, until all the sheep in the field were
destroyed. The shepherds and the sheep were all mixed together;
but they did not save them from the power of the beasts.
88:118 Then he who wrote the book ascended, exhibited it, and
read it at the residence of the Lord of the sheep. He petitioned him
for them, and prayed, pointing out every act of the shepherds, and
testifying before him against them all. Then taking the book, he de,
posited it with him, and departed.
Enoch
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1. And I observed during the time, that thus thirty-seven shep,
herds were overlooking, all of whom finished in their respective peri,
ods as the first. Others then received them into their hands, that
they might overlook them in their respective periods, every shep,
herd in his own period.
2. Afterwards I saw in the vision, that all the birds of heaven ar,
rived; eagles, the avest, kites and ravens. The eagle instructed them
all.
3. They began to devour the sheep, to peck out their eyes, and to
eat up their bodies.
Obadiah 1
2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art
greatly despised.
3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest
in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his
heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy
nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
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Psalms 83:1-18
1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not
still, O God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee
have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and con,
sulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a na,
tion; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are con,
federate against thee:
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabi,
tants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of
Lot. Selah.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes
as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
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13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the
wind.
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the moun,
tains on fire;
16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O
LORD.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be
put to shame, and perish:
18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH,
art the most high over all the earth.
Isaiah 28:9-10
4. The sheep then cried out; for their bodies were devoured by the
birds.
6. And I looked, while the sheep were eaten up by the dogs, by the
eagles, and by the kites. They neither left them their body, nor their
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skin, nor their muscles, until their bones alone remained; until their
bones fell upon the ground. And the sheep became diminished.
Esau is the end of the world and Jacob is the one that followed
Ezekiel 37:1-14
1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the
spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which
was full of bones,
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I an,
swered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say
unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause
breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you,
and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and
ye shall know that I am the LORD.
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8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon
them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in
them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of
man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the
four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may
live.
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole
house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope
is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to
come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your
graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place
you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spo,
ken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
Wake Up!
Zechariah 2:7-10
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7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Baby,
lon.
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent
me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you
toucheth the apple of his eye.
9 For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be
a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts
hath sent me.
10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will
dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
25. Then I saw, that the man, who wrote the book at the word of
the Lord, opened the book of destruction, of that destruction which
the last twelve shepherds wrought; and pointed out before the Lord
of the sheep, that they destroyed more than those who preceded
them.
26. I saw also that the Lord of the sheep came to them, and taking
in his hand the sceptre of his wrath seized the earth, which became
rent asunder; while all the beasts and birds of heaven fell from the
sheep, and sunk into the earth, which closed over them.
27. I saw, too, that a large sword was given to the sheep, who went
forth against all the beasts of the field to slay them.
28. But all the beasts and birds of heaven fled away from before
their face.
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Micah 4:11-13
11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let
her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither under,
stand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into
the floor.
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn
iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces
many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and
their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
Matthew 24:30
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see
the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great
glory.
Revelation 6:10
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy
and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that
dwell on the earth?
John 15:18-22
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19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but be,
cause ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not
greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also perse,
cute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake,
because they know not him that sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin:
but now they have no cloak for their sin.
Jeremiah 16:17-19
17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my
face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double;
because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance
with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
Jeremiah 16:16
16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they
shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall
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hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the
holes of the rocks.
Isaiah 14:1-3
1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Is,
rael, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be
joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place:
and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD
for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives,
whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give
thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard
bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
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2 Give ear, ye that rule the people, and glory in the multitude of na,
tions.
3 For power is given you of the Lord, and sovereignty from the
Highest, who shall try your works, and search out your counsels.
5 Horribly and speedily shall he come upon you: for a sharp judg,
ment shall be to them that be in high places.
6 For mercy will soon pardon the meanest: but mighty men shall
be mightily tormented.
7 For he which is Lord over all shall fear no man's person, neither
shall he stand in awe of any man's greatness: for he hath made the
small and great, and careth for all alike.
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Romans 13:1-2
1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no
power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Romans 13:4
4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that
which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is
the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that do,
eth evil.
Romans 9:22-23
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power
known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted
to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the
vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
2 Esdras 6:5-18
5 And ere the present years were sought out, and or ever the in,
ventions of them that now sin were turned, before they were sealed
that have gathered faith for a treasure:
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6 Then did I consider these things, and they all were made
through me alone, and through none other: by me also they shall be
ended, and by none other.
8 And he said unto me, From Abraham unto Isaac, when Jacob and
Esau were born of him, Jacob's hand held first the heel of Esau.
9 For Esau is the end of the world, and Jacob is the beginning of it
that followeth.
10 The hand of man is betwixt the heel and the hand: other ques,
tion, Esdras, ask thou not.
12 I beseech thee, shew thy servant the end of thy tokens, whereof
thou shewedst me part the last night.
13 So he answered and said unto me, Stand up upon thy feet, and
hear a mighty sounding voice.
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17 And it happened, that when I had heard it I stood up upon my
feet, and hearkened, and, behold, there was a voice that spake, and
the sound of it was like the sound of many waters.
18 And it said, Behold, the days come, that I will begin to draw
nigh, and to visit them that dwell upon the earth,
20 And when the world, that shall begin to vanish away, shall be
finished, then will I shew these tokens: the books shall be opened be,
fore the firmament, and they shall see all together:
21 And the children of a year old shall speak with their voices, the
women with child shall bring forth untimely children of three or four
months old, and they shall live, and be raised up.
22 And suddenly shall the sown places appear unsown, the full
storehouses shall suddenly be found empty:
23 And the trumpet shall give a sound, which when every man
heareth, they shall be suddenly afraid.
24 At that time shall friends fight one against another like ene,
mies, and the earth shall stand in fear with those that dwell therein,
the springs of the fountains shall stand still, and in three hours they
shall not run.
25 Whosoever remaineth from all these that I have told thee shall
escape, and see my salvation, and the end of your world.
26 And the men that are received shall see it, who have not tasted
death from their birth: and the heart of the inhabitants shall be
changed, and turned into another meaning.
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27 For evil shall be put out, and deceit shall be quenched.
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Psalms 147:19-20
20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments,
they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
1Peter to James, the Lord and Bishop of the holy church, Peace be
with you always from the Father of all through Jesus Christ.
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persons who, I know not how, allege that they are at home in my
thoughts wish to expound the words which they have heard of me
better than I myself who spoke them to those whom they instruct
they say that this is my opinion, to which indeed I never gave a
thought.
7 But if they falsely assert such a thing while still alive, how much
more after my death will those come later venture to do so.
“Still others among them endure suffering and think they will
perfect [79] the wisdom of the brotherhood that really exists, the
spiritual fellowship with those united in communion, through which
the wedding of incorruptibility will be revealed. Instead, what will
sisterhood.
rejoice at what was done to the little ones, those who watched
when the little ones were taken captive.
“And there are others among those outside our number who call
themselves bishops and
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deacons, as if they have received authority from God, but they
bow before the judgment
I47 said, “I am afraid because of what you have told me. Although
[80] there are only a few phonies among us,48 there are many others
who lead astray and subdue multitudes of living ones. And when
they speak your name, people will believe them.”
error, they will rule over the little ones. And after the completion
of error, the being of immortal understanding, who does not grow
old, will become new, and the little ones will rule over their rulers.
That being will pull out their error by its root, and put it to
shame and expose it for all the liberties it has taken. Peter, such
people will never
change.
“Others will wander from evil words and mysteries that lead
do not understand the mysteries and speak of what they do not
understand will boast that the mystery of truth is theirs alone. In
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arrogance [77] they will embrace pride and will envy the immortal
soul that has been used as down
by the immortal souls that do exist. The powers have not been
saved or shown the way
only, they think that good and evil come from the same source.
They do business in
[78] my word.38 And they will establish harsh fate in which the
generation of immortal souls will
run in vain, until my return.39 For the immortal souls will surely
into which they have fallen through their adversaries, and I have
redeemed them from
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labours.
2 When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, and
shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond all
that they looked for.
3 And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall say
within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision,
and a proverb of reproach:
6 Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of
righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of
2 Esdras 9:1-2
Luke 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led
away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down
of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
2 Esdras 9:3-8
4 Then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of
those things from the days that were before thee, even from the
beginning.
5 For like as all that is made in the world hath a beginning and an
end, and the end is manifest:
7 And every one that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape by
his works, and by faith, whereby ye have believed,
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1 Peter 1:4-5,9
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time.
9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Revelation 14:11
Revelation 19:3
3 And again they said, Alleluia And her smoke rose up for ever
and ever.
2 Esdras 9:10-13
10 For such as in their life have received benefits, and have not
known me;
11 And they that have loathed my law, while they had yet liberty,
and, when as yet place of repentance was open unto them,
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13 And therefore be thou not curious how the ungodly shall be
punished, and when: but enquire how the righteous shall be saved,
whose the world is, and for whom the world is created.
15 I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also
hereafter, that there be many more of them which perish, than of
them which shall be saved:
17 And he answered me, saying, Like as the field is, so is also the
seed; as the flowers be, such are the colours also; such as the work,
man is, such also is the work; and as the husbandman is himself, so
is his husbandry also: for it was the time of the world.
18 And now when I prepared the world, which was not yet made,
even for them to dwell in that now live, no man spake against me.
19 For then every one obeyed: but now the manners of them
which are created in this world that is made are corrupted by a per,
petual seed, and by a law which is unsearchable rid themselves.
22 Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain; and let
my grape be kept, and my plant; for with great labour have I made it
perfect.
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The 40 days of repentance are over, Michael will blow the Trumpet
and stand up for Israel soon!
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The Year of Jubilee where land is given back and slaves are set
free. The shutting in Las Vegas 50 dead (50 Year Jubilee), 400 injured
(400 Years of the Hebrews in slavery)
Ezekiel 36:1-5
2 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against
you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side,
that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and
ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the
people:
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that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue
of the heathen that are round about;
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand,
Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be
tilled and sown:
10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even
all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be
builded:
11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall
increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates,
and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall
know that I am the LORD.
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Psalm 50:16-21
16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare
my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and
hast been partaker with adulterers.
19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Isaiah 44:5
5 One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call himself by
the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto
the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
Psalm 50:18
18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and
hast been partaker with adulterers.
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5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!)
would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grape
10 For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover
thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that
the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered
into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one
of them.
12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in
the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have
15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou
hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon
thine own head.
swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
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17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be
holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
Isaiah 51:21-23
21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not
with wine:
22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the
cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of
trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more
drink it again:
23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which
have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast
laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went
over.
Hosea 11:9-11
9 Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people,
and I will not be your God.
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1 Peter 2:9-10
10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people
of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained
mercy.
Do no become Sodom
Psalm 83:1-10
1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not
still, O God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee
have lifted up the head.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are
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6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the
Hagarenes;
inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of
Lot. Selah.
Odes of Solomon
Baruch 2:30-35
remember themselves.
31 And shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give them
an heart, and ears to hear:
32 And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think
upon my name,
33 And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds:
for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned
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34 And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with
an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall
be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be
diminished.
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104:7 Now will I point out a mystery: Many sinners shall turn and
transgress against the word of uprightness.
104:8 They shall speak evil things; they shall utter falsehood;
104:9 They shall neither change or diminish them; but shall write
them all correctly; all which from the first I have uttered concerning
them.
104:10 Another mystery also I point out. To the righteous and the
wise shall be given books of joy, of integrity, and of great wisdom.
To them shall books be given, in which they shall believe;
104:11 And in which they shall rejoice. And all the righteous shall
be rewarded, who from these shall acquire the knowledge of every
upright path.
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Jeremiah 3:15
15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall
feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Isaiah 14:1-3
1 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel,
and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined
with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place:
and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for
servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose
captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee
rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage
wherein thou wast made to serve,
Daniel 7:25
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and
shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change
times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time
and times and the dividing of time.
Exodus 34:22
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The judgement is still set, we are in the calm before the storm,
Fall Feasts begin, October 19!
Daniel 7:25-27
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and
shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change
times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time
and times and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his domin,
ion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the king,
dom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the
saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Daniel 7:18
18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and pos,
sess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
Psalms 50:5
5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a cove,
nant with me by sacrifice.
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1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and
the mother of Jesus was there:
2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.
3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him,
They have no wine.
4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine
hour is not yet come.
6 And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the
firkins apiece.
7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they
filled them up to the brim.
8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the
9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made
wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the
water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
10 And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth
good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse:
but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
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Daniel 7:25-28
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and
shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change
times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time
and times and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his
2 Corinthians 11:4
Enoch 104:-7-11
104:7 Now will I point out a mystery: Many sinners shall turn and
transgress against the word of uprightness.
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104:8 They shall speak evil things; they shall utter falsehood;
104:9 They shall neither change or diminish them; but shall write
them all correctly; all which from the first I have uttered concerning
them.
104:10 Another mystery also I point out. To the righteous and the
wise shall be given books of joy, of integrity, and of great wisdom.
To them shall books be given, in which they shall believe;
104:11 And in which they shall rejoice. And all the righteous shall
be rewarded, who from these shall acquire the knowledge of every
upright path.
Jeremiah 3:15
15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall
feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Isaiah 14:1-3
1 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel,
and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined
with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place:
and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for
servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose
captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
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3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee
rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage
wherein thou wast made to serve,
Daniel 7:25
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and
shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change
times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time
and times and the dividing of time.
Exodus 34:22
22And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the first fruits of
wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
The judgement is still set, we are in the calm before the storm,
Fall Feasts begin, October 19!
Daniel 7:25-27
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and
shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change
times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time
and times and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his
27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the king,
dom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the
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saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Daniel 7:18
18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and
possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
Psalms 50:5
5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a cove,
nant with me by sacrifice.
John 2:1-11
1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and
the mother of Jesus was there:
2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.
3And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him,
They have no wine.
4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine
hour is not yet come.
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6 And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the man,
ner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins
apiece.
7Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they
filled them up to the brim.
8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the
9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made
wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew
the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
10 And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth
good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse:
but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
Proverbs 25:2
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Matthew 25:1-13
3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with
them:
4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our
lamps are gone out.
9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough
for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for your,
selves.
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10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they
that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was
shut.
11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open
to us.
12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour
wherein the Son of man cometh.
Matthew 25:1-2
1 "At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who
took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of
them were foolish and five were wise.
Those whose name he knew first were called last, so that the one
who has knowledge is he whose name the Father has pronounced.
For he whose name has not been spoken is ignorant. Indeed, how
shall one hear if his name has not been uttered? For he who remains
ignorant until the end is a creature of forgetfulness and will perish
with it. If this is not so, why have these wretches no name, why do
they have no sound? Hence, if one has knowledge, he is from above.
If he is called, he hears, he replies, and he turns toward him who
called him and he ascends to him and he knows what he is called.
Since he has knowledge, he does the will of him who called him. He
desires to please him and he finds rest. He receives a certain name.
He who thus is going to have knowledge knows whence he came
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and whither he is going. He knows it as a person who, having be,
come intoxicated, has turned from his drunkenness and having
come to himself, has restored what is his own.
He has turned many from error. He went before them to their own
places, from which they departed when they erred because of the
depth of him who surrounds every place, whereas there is nothing
which surrounds him. It was a great wonder that they were in the
Father without knowing him and that they were able to leave on
their own, since they were not able to contain him and know him in
whom they were, for indeed his will had not come forth from him.
For he revealed it as a knowledge with which all its emanations
agree, namely, the knowledge of the living book which he revealed
to the Aeons at last as his letters, displaying to them that these are
not merely vowels nor consonants, so that one may read them and
think of something void of meaning; on the contrary, they are letters
which convey the truth. They are pronounced only when they are
known. Each letter is a perfect truth like a perfect book, for they are
letters written by the hand of the unity, since the Father wrote them
for the Aeons, so that they by means of his letters might come to
know the Father.
Matthew 25:3-5
3 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with
them. 4 The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their
lamps. 5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all be,
came drowsy and fell asleep.
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Nag Hammadi-Tripartite Tractate, The Spirit
For the Father, the exalted one, they know [72] by his Will, which
[is] the Spirit that breathes through the members of the All and gives
them a thought to search for the unknown, just as somebody is
moved by a fragrance to seek the source of that fragrance-and the
fragrance of the Father surpasses such unworthy things. For its
sweetness lets the aeons sense an indescribable pleasure, and gives
them the thought that they should be united with the one who de,
sires that they should know him in oneness, and that they should as,
sist one another through the spirit that is sown in them. They find
themselves in a great and powerful inbreathing where they are re,
newed in a speechless manner and are formed, having no occasion
to turn away through thoughtlessness from that in which they are
placed. For they do not speak but are silent about the glory of the
Matthew 25:6
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud
command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call
of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are
still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the
clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord
forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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Matthew 24:31
1 Thessalonians 4:15-18
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which
are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent
them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the
dead in Christ shall rise first:
Isaiah 45:4
For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even
called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not
known me.
Matthew 25:7
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Luke 13:24-30
24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will
seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut
to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door,
saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto
you, I know you not whence ye are:
26 Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy pres,
ence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart
from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
29 And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and
from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the king,
dom of God.
30 And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are
first which shall be last.
Matthew 24:9-10
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you:
and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another,
and shall hate one another.
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Proverbs 20:20
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out
in obscure darkness.
Matthew 25:10-13
10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they
that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was
shut.
11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open
to us.
12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour
wherein the Son of man cometh.
Matthew 7:21-23
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into
the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father
which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophe,
sied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy
name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart
from me, ye that work iniquity.
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1 Corinthians 8:3
Galatians 4:9
9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of
God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, where,
unto ye desire again to be in bondage?
2 Timothy 2:19
Matthew 24:46
Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find
so doing.
Revelations 16:15
Matthew 25:13
13Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour
wherein the Son of man cometh.
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1 Thessaionians 5:2
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruc,
tion cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and
they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should over,
take you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we
are not of the night, nor of darkness.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken
are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breast,
plate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live
together with him.
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C H A P T E R 51
(55) Jesus said, "Whoever does not hate his father and his mother
cannot become a disciple to me. And whoever does not hate his
brothers and sisters and take up his cross in my way will not be wor,
thy of me."
Luke 14:25-27
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Lost Scriptures The Coptic Gospel of Thomas
(49) Jesus said, "Blessed are the solitary and elect, for you will find
the kingdom. For you are from it, and to it you will return."
Jeremiah 3:14
(99) The disciples said to him, "Your brothers and your mother are
standing outside."
(100) They showed Jesus a gold coin and said to him, "Caesar's
men demand taxes from us."
(101) Jesus said, "Whoever does not hate his father and his mother
as I do cannot become a disciple to me. And whoever does not love
his father and his mother as I do cannot become a disciple to me.
For my mother [...], but my true mother gave me life."
(102) Jesus said, "Woe to the pharisees, for they are like a dog sleep,
ing in the manger of oxen, for neither does he eat nor does he let
the oxen eat."
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Lost Scriptures Letter of Barnabas 4:6-8
watch yourselves now, and do not become like some people by pil,
ing up your sins , saying that the covenants is both theirs and ours. 7
For it is ours. But the permanently lost it, in this way, when Moses
had just received it. For the Scripture says, Moses was on the moun,
tain fasting for forty days and forty nights, and he received the cove,
nant from the Lord, stone tables written with the finger of the Lords
own hand.
8 But when the turned back to idols they lost it. For the Lord says
this: Moses, Moses, go down quickly, because your people, whom
you lead from land of Egypt, has broken the law. Moses understood
and cast the two tablets from his hands. And their covenant was
smashed ”that the covenant of his beloved Jesus, might be sealed in
our hearts, in the hope brought by faith in him.
Deuteronomy 29:25-28
25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant
of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them,
gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
27And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to
bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
28 And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in
wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as
it is this day.
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Romans 3:19
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to
them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and
all the world may become guilty before God.
9 For the one who has placed the implanted gifts of his covenant
in us knew these things. No one has learned a more reliable lesson
from me. But I know that you are worthy.
1 And when Moses said, Do not eat the pig, or eagle, or the hawk,
or the crow, or any fish without scales, he received three firm teach,
ings in his understanding. 2 Moreover, he said to them in the book of
Deuteronomy, I will establish a covenant with these people in my
righteous demands. So, then the commandment of God is not a mat,
ter of avoiding food, but Moses spoke in the Spirit. 3 This is why he
spoke about the pig: Do not cling, he says, to such people, who are
like pigs. That is to say, when they live in luxury, they forget the
Lord, but when they are in need, they remember the Lord. This is just
like the pig: Â when it is eating, it does not know the master, but
when hungry, it cries out until it gets its food, and then is silent
again.
4And do not eat the eagle, the hawk the kite, or the crow. You
must not, he says, cling to such people or be like them, people who
do not know how to procure food for themselves through toil and
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sweat, but by their lawless behavior seize food that belongs to oth,
ers. And they are always on the watch, strolling about with
ostensible innocence, but looking to see what they can plunder be,
cause of their greed. For these are the only birds that do not procure
their own food, but sit by idly, waiting to see how they might devour
the flesh procured by others, being pestilent in their evil.
2 Esdras 14:45-47
45And it came to pass, when the forty days were fulfilled, that the
Highest spake, saying, The first that thou hast written publish
openly, that the worthy and unworthy may read it: 46 But keep the
seventy last, that thou mayest deliver them only to such as be wise
among the people: 47 For in them is the spring of understanding, the
fountain of wisdom, and the stream of knowledge.
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your hands onto Manasseh’s head, because he is my firstborn son.
Jacob said to Joseph. I know, my child, I know. But the greater will
serve the lesser, and it is this one who will be blessed.â€
1 Now, first you must learn that, to a Pentateuch of Moses was not
established by a single author, I mean not by God alone: rather,
there are certain of its commandments that were established by
3 You will now learn how all this can be demonstrated from the
saviors words.
4 when the savior was talking with those who were arguing with
him about divorce and it has been ordained (in the law) that divorce
is permitted he said to them: For your hardness of heart Moses
allowed divorce of ones wife. Now, from the beginning it was not
so. For God, he says, has joined together this union, and what the
Lord has joined together, let no man put asunder.
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5 Here he shows that the law of God is one thing, forbidding a
woman to be put asunder from her husband; while the law of Moses
is another, permitting the couple to be put asunder because of hard-
heartedness.
7 For the latter were not able to put into practice Gods intentions,
in the matter of their not being permitted to divorce their
wives. Some of them were on very bad terms with their wives, and
ran the risk of being further diverted into injustice and from there
into their destruction.
9 so that if they were unable to keep the former (that is, Gods law)
they could keep at least the latter and so not be diverted into
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The Nag Hammadi - Exegesis on the Soul, On the Prostitution
of the Soul (129,5-131,13)
They were speaking not just of the prostitution of the body but
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C H A P T E R 52
19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judg,
ments unto Israel.
20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments,
they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord.
Micah 4:1-2
1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of
the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the
2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up
to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob;
and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the
law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Deuteronomy 7:3
3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou
shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy
son.
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Ezra 9:12
12 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither
take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their
wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land,
and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
Tobit 4:12
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You take gentile women for your wives and your sexual relations
will become like Sodom and Gomorrah.
Genesis 27:38-40
38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my
father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his
voice, and wept.
39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy
dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven
from above;
40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother;
and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that
thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Jeremiah 9:23-24
23 Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man
glory in his riches:
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2 Corinthians 6:14
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he
that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye
are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in
them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my
people.
VIII. And Aseneth's mother went up to the top storey and brought
Aseneth down to Joseph; and Pentephres said to his daughter Ase,
neth, "Greet your brother, for he too is a virgin as you are to-day, and
he detests all strange women just as you detest strange men." 2. And
Aseneth said to Joseph, "May you have joy, my lord, blessed as you
are of God Most High"; and Joseph said to her, "May God, who has
given all things life, bless you." 3. And Pentephres said to Aseneth,
"Come near and kiss your brother." 4. And when she came near to
kiss Joseph, Joseph stretched his right hand out, and laid it against
her breast, and said, 5. "It is not right for a man who worships God,
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who with his mouth blesses the living God, and eats the blessed
bread of life, and drinks the blessed cup of immortality, and is
anointed with the blessed unction of incorruption, to kiss a strange
woman, who with her mouth blesses dead and dumb idols, and eats
of their table the bread of anguish, and drinks of their libations the
cup of treachery, and is anointed with the unction of destruction. 6. A
man who worships God will kiss his mother and his sister that is of
his own tribe and kin, and the wife that shares his couch, who with
their mouths bless the living God. 7. So too it is not right for a
woman who worships God to kiss a strange man, because this is an
abomination in God's eyes."
1 Corinthian 11:3
3 But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ,
and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
VIII. 8. And when Aseneth heard what Joseph said, she was most
distressed and cried out aloud; and she fixed her gaze on Joseph,
and her eyes were filled with tears. 9. And Joseph saw her and his
heart went out to her -- for Joseph was tender-hearted and compas,
sionate and feared the Lord. 10. And he lifted up his right hand above
her head and said,
"O Lord, the God of my father Israel, the Most High, the
Mighty One,
Who didst quicken all things, and didst call them from dark,
ness into light.
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And from error into truth, and from death into life;
secret hand,
And may she enter into thy rest, which thou has prepared for
thine elect."
9 And wisdom was with thee: which knoweth thy works, and was
present when thou madest the world, and knew what was acceptable
in thy sight, and right in thy commandments.
10 O send her out of thy holy heavens, and from the throne of thy
glory, that being present she may labour with me, that I may know
what is pleasing unto thee.
11 For she knoweth and understandeth all things, and she shall
lead me soberly in my doings, and preserve me in her power.
13 For what man is he that can know the counsel of God? or who
can think what the will of the Lord is?
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Isaiah 4:1
and say, “We will eat our own food and provide our own clothes;
2 In that day the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious,
and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors
in Israel.
1 Timothy 5:8
8 Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially
for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an
unbeliever. NIV
8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his
own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. KJV
Jeremiah 9:23-24
23 Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man
glory in his riches:
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24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth
and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise loving-kindness,
judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I
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C H A P T E R 53
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is
in heaven.
Matthew 25:10-13
10And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they
that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was
shut. 11Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord,
open to us. 12But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know
you not. 13Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour
wherein the Son of man cometh.
Matthew 7:21-23
21Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom
of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in
heaven.
22 Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not proph,
esy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your
name perform many miracles? 23 Then I will tell them plainly,I never
knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!
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Matthew 7:24-29
28 When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were
amazed at his teaching, 29because he taught as one who had author,
ity, and not as their teachers of the law.
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power hither and thither, and be disseminated all over the world.
And we shall lead astray the inhabited world for a long season, until
the Son of God is stretched upon the cross. For never before doth
arise a king like unto him, one frustrating us all, whose mother shall
not have contact with man. Who else can receive such authority over
spirits, except he, whom the first devil will seek to tempt, but will not
prevail over? The number of his name is 644 , which is Emmanuel.
Wherefore, O King Solomon, thy time is evil, and thy years short and
evil, and to thy servant shall thy kingdom be given ." quotes from an
apocryphal Book of Solomon.
66. And I Solomon, having heard this, glorified God. And though I
marvelled at the apology of the demons, I did not credit it until it
came true. And I did not believe their words; but when they were
Amos 3:1-2
Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children
of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land
of Egypt, saying,
“You only have I known of all the families of the earth: there,
fore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
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Nova - no·va
noun ASTRONOMY
Book Two
For the Lord is not worshipped with sadness, Nor with cries of de,
spair.
Leave off your moans and lamentations, And sing unto the Lord a
new song:
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And be led forth with peace:
As long as I live:
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C H A P T E R 54
30 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son
of man be to this generation.
31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the
men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the
utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, be,
hold, a greater than Solomon is here.
32 The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this gen,
eration, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of
Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
Leviticus 12
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days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall
she be unclean.
circumcised.
4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three
and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the
sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.
5 But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two
weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of
her purifying threescore and six days.
6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for
a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt
7 Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for
her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is
the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two
turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the
other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for
her, and she shall be clean.
Matthew 25:6-8
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8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our
lamps are gone out.
Psalms 117:1-2
117O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
2For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the
Lordendureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.
2 Esdras 15:1-63
15 [a] The Lord says, “Behold, speak in the ears of my people the
words of the prophecy which I will put in your mouth, 2 and cause
them to be written on paper; for they are trustworthy and true. 3 Do
not fear the plots against you, and do not be troubled by the
unbelief of those who oppose you. 4 For every unbeliever shall die
in his unbelief.”
5 “Behold,” says the Lord, “I bring evils upon the world, the sword
and famine and death and destruction. 6 For iniquity has spread
throughout every land, and their harmful deeds have reached their
limit. 7 Therefore,” says the Lord, 8 “I will be silent no longer concern,
ing their ungodly deeds which they impiously commit, neither will I
tolerate their wicked practices. Behold, innocent and righteous blood
cries out to me, and the souls of the righteous cry out continually. 9 I
will surely avenge them,” says the Lord, “and will receive to myself all
the innocent blood from among them. 10 Behold, my people is led
like a flock to the slaughter; I will not allow them to live any longer in
the land of Egypt, 11 but I will bring them out with a mighty hand
and with an uplifted arm, and will smite Egypt with plagues, as
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12 Let Egypt mourn, and its foundations, for the plague of chastise,
ment and punishment that the Lord will bring upon it. 13 Let the
farmers that till the ground mourn, because their seed shall fail and
their trees shall be ruined by blight and hail and by a terrible
tempest. 14 Alas for the world and for those who live in it! 15 For
the sword and misery draw near them, and nation shall rise up to
fight against nation, with swords in their hands. 16 For there shall be
unrest among men; growing strong against one another, they shall
in their might have no respect for their king or the chief of their
leaders. 17 For a man will desire to go into a city, and shall not be
able. 18 For because of their pride the cities shall be in confusion, the
houses shall be destroyed, and people shall be afraid. 19 A man shall
have no pity upon his neighbors, but shall make an assault upon
their houses with the sword, and plunder their goods, because of
hunger for bread and because of great tribulation.
20 “Behold,” says God, “I call together all the kings of the earth to
fear me, from the rising sun and from the south, from the east and
from Leb′anon; to turn and repay what they have given them. 21 Just
as they have done to my elect until this day, so I will do, and will
repay into their bosom.” Thus says the Lord God: 22 “My right
hand will not spare the sinners, and my sword will not cease from
those who shed innocent blood on earth.” 23 And a fire will go forth
from his wrath, and will consume the foundations of the earth, and
the sinners, like straw that is kindled. 24 “Woe to those who sin and
do not observe my commandments,” says the Lord; 25 “I will not
spare them. Depart, you faithless children! Do not pollute my
sanctuary.” 26 For the Lord knows all who transgress against him;
therefore he will hand them over to death and slaughter. 27 For now
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calamities have come upon the whole earth, and you shall remain in
them; for God will not deliver you, because you have sinned against
him.
chariots, and from the day that they set out, their hissing shall
spread over the earth, so that all who hear them fear and tremble.
30 Also the
Judgment on Babylon
34 Behold, clouds from the east, and from the north to the south;
and their appearance is very threatening, full of wrath and storm.
35 They shall dash against one another and shall pour out a heavy
tempest upon the earth, and their own tempest; and there shall be
blood from the sword as high as a horse’s belly 36 and a man’s thigh
and a camel’s hock. 37 And there shall be fear and great trembling
upon the earth; and those who see that wrath shall be horror-
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stricken, and they shall be seized with trembling. 38 And, after that,
heavy storm clouds shall be stirred up from the south, and from the
north, and another part from the west. 39 And the winds from the
east shall prevail over the cloud that was[b] raised in wrath, and shall
dispel it; and the tempest that was to cause destruction by the east
wind shall be driven violently toward the south and west. 40 And
great and mighty clouds, full of wrath and tempest, shall rise, to
destroy all the earth and its inhabitants, and shall pour out upon
every high and lofty place[c] a terrible tempest, 41 fire and hail and
flying swords and floods of water, that all the fields and all the
streams may be filled with the abundance of those waters. 42 And
they shall destroy cities and walls, mountains and hills, trees of the
forests, and grass of the meadows, and their grain. 43 And they shall
go on steadily to Babylon, and shall destroy her. 44 They shall come
to her and surround her; they shall pour out the tempest and all its
wrath upon her; then the dust and smoke shall go up to heaven, and
all who are about her shall wail over her. 45 And those who survive
shall serve those who have destroyed her.
Judgment on Asia
46 And you, Asia, who share in the glamour of Babylon and the
glory of her person— 47 woe to you, miserable wretch! For you have
made yourself like her; you have decked out your daughters in
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upon you. 51 You shall be weakened like a wretched woman who is
beaten and wounded, so that you cannot receive your mighty lovers.
52 Would I have dealt with you so violently,” says the Lord, 53 “If you
had not always killed my chosen people, exulting and clapping your
hands and talking about their death when you were drunk? 54 Trick
out the beauty of your face! 55 The reward of a harlot is in your
bosom, therefore you shall receive your recompense. 56 As you will
do to my chosen people,” says the Lord, “so God will do to you, and
will hand you over to adversities. 57 Your children shall die of hun,
ger, and you shall fall by the sword, and your cities shall be wiped
out, and all your people who are in the open country shall fall by the
sword. 58 And those who are in the mountains and highlands[d] shall
perish of hunger, and they shall eat their own flesh in hunger for
bread and drink their own blood in thirst for water. 59 Unhappy
above all others, you shall come and suffer fresh afflictions. 60 And
as they pass they shall wreck the hateful[e] city, and shall destroy a
part of your land and abolish a portion of your glory, as they return
from devastated Babylon. 61 And you shall be broken down by them
like stubble, and they shall be like fire to you. 62 And they shall
devour you and your cities, your land and your mountains; they
shall burn with fire all your forests and your fruitful trees. 63 They
shall carry your children away captive, and shall plunder your wealth,
and abolish the glory of your countenance.”
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2 Esdras 6:17-19
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not touch. And you, O Peter, shall stand in their midst. Do not be
afraid because of your cowardice. Their minds shall be closed, for
the invisible one has opposed them."
Revelation 12:1-2
2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to
be delivered.
Micah 4:10-14
11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let
her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
12 But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand
they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the
floor.
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn
iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces
many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their
substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
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Micah 5:3
3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which tra,
vaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall re,
turn unto the children of Israel.
Micah 5:7-15
10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will
cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy
chariots:
11 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy
strong holds:
12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt
have no more soothsayers:
13 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images
out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of
thine hands.
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14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I
destroy thy cities.
15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the hea,
then, such as they have not heard.
Enoch 90:24-28
Then I saw, that the man, who wrote the cepher at the Word of YA,
HUAH, opened the cepher of destruction, of that destruction which
the last twelve shepherds wrought; and pointed out before YAHUAH
of the sheep, that they destroyed more than those who preceded
them. I saw also that YAHUAH of the sheep came to them, and taking
in his hand the sceptre of his wrath seized the earth, which became
rent asunder; while all the beasts and birds of heaven fell from the
sheep, and sunk into the earth, which closed over them. I saw, too,
that a large sword was given to the sheep, who went forth against all
the beasts of the field to slay them. But all the beasts and birds of
heaven fled away from before their face. CHANOK (ENOCH) 90:25-28
אתCEPHER--
Isaiah 13:5-22
5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the
Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a de,
struction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall
melt:
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8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of
them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be
amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and
fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not
give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the
moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for
their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease,
and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man
than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove
out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of
his fierce anger.
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one
that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not
regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
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18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they
shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare
children.
21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses
shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and sa,
tyrs shall dance there.
22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate
houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near
to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Revelation 11:13
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth
part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven
thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the
God of heaven.
Revelation 11:1-12
7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast
that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against
them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
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8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,
which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was
crucified.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations
shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suf,
fer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and
make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two
prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God en,
tered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell
upon them which saw them.
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them,
Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and
their enemies beheld them.
Isaiah 42:-13-17
14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and re,
frained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy
and devour at once.
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their
herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
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16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead
them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light
before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto
them, and not forsake them.
Psalms 50:21
21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thought,
est that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove
thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Jeremiah 30:3,6-11
3 For, lo, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will bring again the
captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the Lord: and I will
cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they
shall possess it.
6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?
wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a
woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the
time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that
I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and
strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
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9 But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king,
whom I will raise up unto them.
10 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the Lord; nei,
ther be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy
seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall
be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
11 For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: though I make a
full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet I will not
make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will
not leave thee altogether unpunished.
Jeremiah 31:7-11
7 For thus saith the Lord; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout
among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O
Lord, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather
them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the
lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child to,
gether: a great company shall return thither.
9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead
them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight
way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and
Ephraim is my firstborn.
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11 For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the
hand of him that was stronger than he.
John 16:20-22
20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but
the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow
shall be turned into joy.
22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and
your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-10
5 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that
I write unto you.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruc,
tion cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and
they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should over,
take you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we
are not of the night, nor of darkness.
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6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be
sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken
are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breast,
plate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live
together with him.
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Genesis 15:13
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall
be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and
they shall afflict them four hundred years;
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and
4. them as for one hour of the impious age. But of the nation
5. whom they shall serve I am the judge." And the Lord said this
too, "Have you heard, Abraham, what I told you, what your tribe will
encounter in the last days?"
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2 Esdras 15:11
11 but I will bring them out with a great display of my power, and I
will strike Egypt with plagues as before, and I will destroy all its land.
Baruch 2:30-32
remember themselves.
31 And shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give them
an heart, and ears to hear:
32 And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think
upon my name,
Revelations 11:8
8And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,
which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was
crucified.
Deuteronomy 28:64
64 And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one
end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve
other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even
wood and stone.
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Deuteronomy 28:49-50
49 The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the
end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue
thou shalt not understand;
Hosea 1:9-10
9 Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people,
and I will not be your God.
10Â Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand
of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall
come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are
not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of
the living God.
10Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which
cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to
them, You are not my people, they will be called children of the
living God. 11 The people of Judah and the people of Israel will
come together; they will appoint one leader and will come up out of
the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.
neighbour 4 They rob his soul of all goodness, And oppress him
with toils and troubles, And drive away sleep from him, And devour
his flesh. 5 And he hindereth the sacrifices of God; And he
Because they have blinded his soul, And he walketh in the day as
in the night.
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Ladder of Jacob 5-6
5 The Most High will raise up kings from the grandsons of your
brother Esau, and they will receive all the noble of the tribes of the
earth who will have maltreated your seed. And they will be delivered
into his hands and he will be vexed by them. And he will hold them
by force and rule over them, and they will not be able to oppose him
until the day when his thought will go out against them to serve
idols and (to offer) sacrifices of the dead (He will) do violence to all
those in his kingdom who will be revealed in such guilt, both to the
highest (man)from your tribe and kfalkonagargailyuya-Satan. Know,
Jacob, that your descendants shall be exiles in a strange land, and
they will afflict them with slavery and inflict wounds on them every
day. But the LORD will judge the people for whom they slave.
6And when the king arises, judgment too will come upon the
place. Then your seed, Israel, will go out of slavery to the nations
who hold them by force and they will be free from any rebuke of
your enemies. For the king is the head of revenge and retaliation
against those who have done evil to you, Israel, and the end of the
age.
[1] Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before
the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his
labours.
[2] When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, and
shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond all
that they looked for.
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[3] And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall say
within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision,
and a proverb of reproach:
[4] We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without
honour:
[5] How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is
among the saints!
[6] Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of
righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteous,
ness rose not upon us.
[8] What hath pride profited us? or what good hath riches with our
vaunting brought us?
[9] All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a post
that hasted by;
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[1] Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the me,
morial thereof is immortal: because it is known with God, and with
men.
[2] When it is present, men take example at it; and when it is gone,
they desire it: it weareth a crown, and triumpheth for ever, having
gotten the victory, striving for undefiled rewards.
[3] But the multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not thrive, nor
take deep rooting from bastard slips, nor lay any fast foundation.
[4] For though they flourish in branches for a time; yet standing
not last, they shall be shaken with the wind, and through the force of
winds they shall be rooted out.
[5] The imperfect branches shall be broken off, their fruit unprofit,
able, not ripe to eat, yea, meet for nothing.
[7] But though the righteous be prevented with death, yet shall he
be in rest.
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[8] For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of
time, nor that is measured by number of years.
[9] But wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is
old age.
[10] He pleased God, and was beloved of him: so that living among
sinners he was translated.
[11] Yea speedily was he taken away, lest that wickedness should
alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul.
[13] He, being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time:
[14] For his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him
away from among the wicked.
[15] This the people saw, and understood it not, neither laid they
up this in their minds, That his grace and mercy is with his saints,
and that he hath respect unto his chosen.
[16] Thus the righteous that is dead shall condemn the ungodly
which are living; and youth that is soon perfected the many years
and old age of the unrighteous.
[17] For they shall see the end of the wise, and shall not under,
stand what God in his counsel hath decreed of him, and to what end
the Lord hath set him in safety.
[18] They shall see him, and despise him; but God shall laugh them
to scorn: and they shall hereafter be a vile carcase, and a reproach
among the dead for evermore.
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[19] For he shall rend them, and cast them down headlong, that
they shall be speechless; and he shall shake them from the founda,
tion; and they shall be utterly laid waste, and be in sorrow; and their
memorial shall perish.
[20] And when they cast up the accounts of their sins, they shall
come with fear: and their own iniquities shall convince them to their
face.
2 Timothy 4:8
Matthew 7:19-20
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and
cast into the fire.
16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root
be holy, so are the branches.
18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest
not the root, but the root thee.
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19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might
be graffed in.
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he
also spare not thee.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed
in: for God is able to graff them in again.
24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature,
and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much
more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into
their own olive tree?
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their
sins.
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but
as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.
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29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now ob,
tained mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your
mercy they also may obtain mercy.
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hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in,
26 and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: "The deliv,
erer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
27 And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins."
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou
camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a
prophet unto the nations.
5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were
born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
Ephesians 1:11
Romans11:2
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2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye
not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to
God against Israel saying,
Romans8:29-30
Enoch 92:12
Hebrews 11:5
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and
was not found, because God had translated him: for before his trans,
lation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Galatians 3:1
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1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not
obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently
set forth, crucified among you?
Hebrews 12:23
Psalms 50:5
5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a cove,
nant with me by sacrifice.
Psalms 103:17-18
Matthew 12:41-42
42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this
generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost
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parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a
greater than Solomon is here.
Proverbs 1:25-27
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear
cometh;
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60 Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is
risen upon thee.
2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth and gross dark,
ness the people; but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and His glory
shall be seen upon thee.
3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the bright,
ness of thy rising.
4 “Lift up thine eyes round about and see; all they gather them,
selves together, they come to thee; thy sons shall come from far, and
thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
5 Then thou shalt see and flow together, and thine heart shall fear
and be enlarged, because the abundance of the sea shall be con,
verted unto thee, the wealth of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
Isaiah 61:6-9
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6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord; men shall call you
the Ministers of our God. Ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and
in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
7 For your shame ye shall have double, and for confusion they
shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall pos,
sess the double; everlasting joy shall be unto them.
8 “For I, the Lord, love judgment; I hate robbery for burnt offering;
and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting
covenant with them.
9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles and their off,
spring among the people; all that see them shall acknowledge them,
that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.”
Isaiah 14:1-2
14 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel
and set them in their own land; and the strangers shall be joined
with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them and bring them to their place,
and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for
servants and handmaids; and they shall take them captive whose
captives they were, and they shall rule over their oppressors.
2 Baruch 72
72:1 Now, hear also about the bright waters which come at the
end after these black ones. This is the Word.
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72:2 After the signs have come of which I have spoken to you be,
fore, when the nations are moved and the time of MY Anointed One
comes, He will call all nations, and some of them He will spare, and
others He will kill.
72:3 These things will befall the nations which will be spared by
Him.
72:4 Every nation which has not known Yisrael and which has not
trodden down the seed of Yacob will live.
72:5 And this is because some from all the nations have been sub,
jected to your people.
72:6 All those, now, who have ruled over you or have known you,
will be delivered up to the sword.
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Galatians 3:28
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Psalms 83:1-4
83 Keep Thou not silence, O God; hold not Thy peace, and be not
still, O God.
2 For lo, Thine enemies make a tumult, and they that hate Thee
have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against Thy people, and con,
sulted against Thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a na,
tion, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.”
Greek reporter makes racist remark against NBA Star Giannis Ante,
tokounmpo (video)
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Professional basketball player Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Greek
Freak, has been often targeted by racists. The latest incident oc,
curred two two days ago in New Orleans, when a Greek journalist
asked coach Steve Kerr at a press conference whether the Milwaukee
Bucks star was a “Black Greek.”
1 Maccabees 1:41-43
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lowed suit and did evil in the land. 53 The king’s inspectors drove Is,
rael into hiding in every place of refuge they had available. 54 Now
on the fifteenth day of Kislev, in the year 145, they set up a disgust,
ing and destructive thing on the altar for entirely burned offerings in
the sanctuary. The inspectors built other altars in the surrounding Ju,
dean towns. 55 They burned incense at the doors of houses and in
the streets. 56 When they found the Law scrolls, they tore them to
pieces and burned them. 57 If anyone was caught in possession of a
copy of the covenant scroll or if anyone kept to the Law, that person
was condemned to death by royal decree. 58 They were unrelenting
in attacking Israelites, all those who were identified as law-observant
month after month throughout the towns. 59 On the twenty-fifth day
of the month they offered sacrifice on the altar built over the altar
for entirely burned offerings. 60 In keeping with the decree, they
killed women who had circumcised their sons. 61 They hanged the in,
fant boys from their mothers’ necks. The king’s agents also killed
the families of the women as well as those who had performed the
circumcisions.
Religious Persecution.
41 Then the king wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be
one people,
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43 and many Israelites delighted in his religion; they sacrificed to
idols and profaned the sabbath.
49 to that they might forget the law and change all its ordinances.
52 Many of the people, those who abandoned the law, joined them
and committed evil in the land.
54 On the fifteenth day of the month Kislev, in the year one hun,
dred and forty-five, the king erected the desolating abomination
upon the altar of burnt offerings, and in the surrounding cities of Ju,
dah they built pagan altars.i
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55 They also burned incense at the doors of houses and in the
streets.
56 Any scrolls of the law* that they found they tore up and burned.
58 So they used their power against Israel, against those who were
caught, each month, in the cities.
60 In keeping with the decree, they put to death women who had
their children circumcised,
61 and they hung their babies from their necks; their families also
and those who had circumcised them were killed.
Psalms 106:28-29
28 They joined themselves also with Baal of Peor, and ate the sacri,
fices to the dead.
29 Thus they provoked Him to anger with their inventions, and the
plague broke in upon them.
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Exodus 19:6
Genesis 17:9, 14
1 Maccabees 1:15
1 Corinthians 7:18
18 Is any man called, being circumcised? Let him not become uncir,
cumcised. Is any called, being uncircumcised? Let him not be circum,
cised.
1 Maccabees 2:17-38
19 But Mattathias answered loudly, “Even if all the nations that live
under the king’s rule obey him and have chosen to follow his orders,
departing from their ancestral religion, 20 My sons and brothers and
I will continue to live according to our ancestors’ covenant. 21 We will
never abandon the Law and its commands! 22 We won’t obey the
king’s orders by turning aside from our religion to either the right or
the left.”
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ing places in the wilderness. 32 Many pursued and overtook them.
The king’s military forces camped opposite them and prepared for
battle against them on the Sabbath. 33 They said to them: “Enough of
this! Come out and do what the king commands, and you will live.”
34 But the Israelites replied: “We won’t come out, and we won’t do
what the king commands and so violate the Sabbath.” 35 So the en,
emy immediately attacked them. 36 Still they didn’t answer or throw
a rock at them or even block up their hiding places. 37 They said,
“Let’s all die in our innocence. Heaven and earth testify on our behalf
that you are killing us unjustly.” 38 So the troops attacked them on
the Sabbath. They died, with their wives and children and livestock,
as many as one thousand people.
18 Come now, be the first to obey the king’s command, as all the
Gentiles and Judeans and those who are left in Jerusalem have done.
Then you and your sons shall be numbered among the King’s
Friends, and you and your sons shall be honored with silver and gold
and many gifts.”
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21 Heaven forbid that we should forsake the law and the com,
mandments.
22 We will not obey the words of the king by departing from our re,
ligion in the slightest degree.”
24 When Mattathias saw him, he was filled with zeal; his heart was
moved and his just fury was aroused; he sprang forward and killed
him upon the altar.
25 At the same time, he also killed the messenger of the king who
was forcing them to sacrifice, and he tore down the altar.
26 Thus he showed his zeal for the law, just as Phinehas did with
Zimri, son of Salu.
27 Then Mattathias cried out in the city, “Let everyone who is zeal,
ous for the law and who stands by the covenant follow me!”
30 they and their children, their wives and their animals, because
misfortunes pressed so hard on them.
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32 Many hurried out after them, and having caught up with them,
camped opposite and prepared to attack them on the sabbath.
33 The pursuers said to them, “Enough of this! Come out and obey
the king’s command, and you will live.”
34 But they replied, “We will not come out, nor will we obey the
king’s command to profane the sabbath.”
36 But they did not retaliate; they neither threw stones, nor
blocked up their secret refuges.
37 They said, “Let us all die in innocence; heaven and earth are our
witnesses that you destroy us unjustly.”
Hebrews 11:37
37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were
slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goat,
skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented
Galatians 3:28
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Matthew 10:34-39
34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I
did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to
turn“‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
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But those who are to receive teaching are the living, who are
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ignorant until the end is a creature of oblivion, and he will vanish
along with it. If not, how is it that these miserable ones have no
name, (that) they do not have the call? Therefore, if one has
He has brought many back from error. He has gone before them
to their places, from which they had moved away, since it was on
account of the depth that they received error, the depth of the
one who encircles all spaces, while there is none that encircles him.
It was a great wonder that they were in the Father, not knowing him,
and (that) they were able to come forth by themselves, since they
were unable to comprehend or to know the one in whom they were.
For if his will had not thus emerged from him - for he revealed it in
view of a knowledge in which all its emanations concur.
Jeremiah 1:4-5
4 The word of the Lord came to me, saying, 5Before I formed you
in the womb I knew you,
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before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a
prophet to the nations.
Jeremiah 3:15
15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall
feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Luke 16:19-31
19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and
fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
20And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid
at his gate, full of sores,
21And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich
man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by
the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was
buried;
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and
send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool
my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but
now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
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26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf
fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot;
neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
28For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they
also come into this place of torment.
29Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let
them hear them.
30And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them
from the dead, they will repent.
31And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
14 And I said to the angel, “I wish to see the souls of the just and
of sinners, and to see in what manner they go out of the body.” And
the angel answered and said to me, “Look again upon the earth.” And
I looked and saw all the world, and people were as naught and grow,
ing weak; and I looked carefully and saw a certain man about to die,
and the angel said to me, “This one whom you see is a just man.”
And I looked again and saw all his works, whatever he had done for
the sake of God’s name, and all his desires, both what he remem,
bered, and what he did not remember; they all stood in his sight in
the hour of need; and I saw the just man advance and find refresh,
ment and confidence, and before he went out of the world the holy
and the impious angels both attended; and I saw them all, but the im,
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pious found no place of habitation in him, but the holy angels took
possession of his soul, guiding it till it went out of the body; and
they roused the soul saying, “Soul, know the body you leave, for it is
necessary that you should return to the same body on the day of the
resurrection, that you may receive the things promised to all the
just.” Receiving therefore the soul from the body, they immediately
kissed as if it were familiar to them, saying to it, “Be of good cour,
age, for you have done the will of God while placed on earth.” And
there came to meet it the angel who watched it every day, and said
to it, “Be of good courage, soul; I rejoice in you, because you have
done the will of God on earth; for I related to God all your works just
as they were.” Similarly also the spirit proceeded to meet it and said,
“Soul, fear not, nor be disturbed, until you come to a place which you
have never known, but I will be a helper to you: for I found in you a
place of refreshment in the time when I dwelt in you, while I was on
earth.” And his spirit strengthened it, and his angel received it, and
led it into heaven; and an angel said, “Where are you running to, O
soul, and do you dare to enter heaven? Wait and let us see if there is
anything of ours in you; and behold we find nothing in you. I see also
your divine helper and angel, and the spirit is rejoicing along with
you, because you have done the will of God on earth.” And they led it
along till it should worship in the sight of God. And when it had
ceased, immediately Michael and all the army of angels, with one
voice, adored the footstool of his feet and his doors, saying at the
same time to the soul, “This is your God of all things, who made you
in his own image and likeness.” Moreover, the angel ran on ahead
and pointed him out, saying, “God, remember his labors; for this is
the soul, whose works I related to you, acting according to your judg,
ment.” And the spirit said likewise, “I am the spirit of vivification in,
spiring it; for I had refreshment in it, in the time when I dwelt in it,
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acting according to your judgment.” And there came the voice of
God and said, “In as much as this man did not grieve me, neither will
I grieve him; as he had pity, I also will have pity. Let it therefore be
handed over to Michael, the angel of the Covenant, and let him lead
it into the Paradise of joy, that it may become coheir with all the
saints.” And after these things I heard the voices of a thousand thou,
sand angels and archangels and cherubim and twenty-four elders,
saying hymns and glorifying the Lord and crying, “You are just, O
Lord, and just are your judgments, and there is no respect of per,
sons with you, but you reward every one according to your judg,
ment.” And the angel answered and said to me, “Have you believed
and known that whatever each one of you has done he sees in the
hour of need?” And I said, “Yes, sir.”
15 And he said to me, “Look again down on the earth, and watch
the soul of an impious man going out of the body, which grieved the
Lord day and night, saying, “I know nothing else in this world, I eat
and drink, and enjoy what is in the world; for who is there who has
descended into hell and, ascending, has declared to us that there is
judgment there!’ ” And again I looked carefully, and saw all the scorn
of the sinner, and all that he did, and they stood together before him
in the hour of need; and it was done to him in that hour, when he
was led out of his body at the judgment, and he said, “It were better
for me if I had not been born.” And after these things, there came at
the same time the holy angels and the evil angels, and the soul of
the sinner saw both and the holy angels did not find a place in it.
Moreover the evil angels cursed it; and when they had drawn it out
of the body the angels admonished it a third time, saying, “O
wretched soul, look upon your flesh from which you have come out;
for it is necessary that you should return to your flesh in the day of
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resurrection, that you may receive what is the due for your sins and
your impieties.” 16 And when they had led it forth the guardian angel
preceded it, and said to it, “O wretched soul, I am the angel belong,
ing to you, relating daily to the Lord your evil works, whatever you
did by night or day; and if it were in my power, not for one day would
I minister to you, but none of these things was I able to do: the judge
is full of pity and just, and he himself commanded us that we should
not cease to minister to the soul till you should repent, but you have
lost the time of repentance. I have become a stranger to you and you
to me. Let us go on then to the just judge; I will not dismiss you be,
fore I know from today I am to be a stranger to you.” And the spirit
afflicted it, and the angel troubled it. When they had arrived at the
powers, when it started to enter heaven, a burden was imposed upon
it, above all other burden: error and oblivion and murmuring met it,
and the spirit of fornication, and the rest of the powers, and said to
it, “Where are you going, wretched soul, and do you dare to rush into
heaven? Hold, that we may see if we have our qualities in you, since
we do not see that you have a holy helper.” And after that I heard
voices in the height of heaven saying, “Present that wretched soul to
God, so it may know that it is God whom it despised.” When, there,
fore, it had entered heaven all the angels saw it; a thousand thou,
sand exclaimed with one voice, all saying, “Woe to you, wretched
soul, for the sake of your works which you did on earth; what answer
are you about to give to God when you have approached to adore
him?” The angel who was with it answered and said, “Weep with me,
my beloved, for I have not found rest in this soul.” And the angels an,
swered him and said, “Let such a soul be taken away from our midst,
for from the time it entered the stink of it crosses to us angels.” And
after these things it was presented, that it might worship in the sight
of God, and an angel of God showed it God who made it after his
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own image and likeness. Moreover its angel ran before it saying,
“Lord God Almighty, I am the angel of this soul, whose works I pre,
sented to you day and night, not acting in accordance with your judg,
ment. And the spirit likewise said, “I am the spirit who dwelt in it
from the time it was made; in itself I know it, and it has not followed
my will; judge it, Lord, according to your judgment.” And there came
the voice of God to it and said, “Where is your fruit which you have
made worthy of the goods which you have received? Have I put a dis,
tance of one day between you and the just person? Did I not make
the sun to arise upon you as upon the just?” But the soul was silent,
having nothing to answer, and again there came a voice saying, “Just
is the judgment of God, and there is no respect of persons with God,
for whoever shall have done mercy, on him shall have mercy, and
whoever shall not have been merciful, neither shall God pity him. Let
it therefore be handed over to the angel Tartaruchus, who is set over
the punishments, and let him cast it into outer darkness, where
there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, and let it be there till the
great day of judgment.” And after these things I heard the voice of
angels and archangels saying, “You are just, Lord, and your judg,
ment is just.”
Matthew 7:20-23
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into
the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father
which is in heaven.
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prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils?
and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart
from me, ye that work iniquity.
Jeremiah 9:23-24
23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man
glory in his riches:
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C H A P T E R 61
Nag Hammadi -
deliberations before
anything had yet come into being, where he also had the ones for
whom he revealed
him. He lay the deficiency upon that which lasts for limited
the glory of his Fullness. It is the fact that he was unknown that
made it possible
knowledge.
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2 Thessalonians 2:11-12
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that
they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but
had pleasure in unrighteousness.
But if there is one who does not believe, he does not have the
believe it.
Ecciesiastes 1:15
Psalms 58:3
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Lost Scriptures - The Gospel of Mary
The soul answered and said, What binds me has been slain, and
what surrounds me has been overcome, and my desire has been
ended, and ignorance has died. In a [world] I was released from a
world, [and]in a type from a heavenly type, and (from)the fetter of
oblivion which is transient. From this time on will I attain to the rest
of the time, of the season, of the aeon, in silence.
39 Jesus said, The pharisees and the scribes have taken the keys
of knowledge (gnosis) and hidden them. They themselves have not
entered, nor have they allowed to enter those who wish to. You, how,
ever, be as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves.
[21] Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their
own wickedness hath blinded them.
[22] As for the mysteries of God, they knew them not: neither
hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward
for blameless souls.
Nag Hammadi
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and pain, things in which there is no profit. If you wish to lead your
life in tranquility, do not keep company with anyone. Even if you do
keep company with them, be as if you do not. Be pleasing to God,
and you will not need anyone.
1When my soul slumbered (being afar) from the Lord, I had all but
slipped down to the pit, When (I was) far from God, 2my soul had
been well nigh poured out unto death, (I had been) nigh unto the
gates of Sheol with the sinner, 3when my soul departed from the
Lord God of Israel. Had not the Lord helped me with His ever lasting
mercy. 4He pricked me, as a horse is pricked, that I might serve Him,
My saviour and helper at all times saved me. 5I will give thanks unto
Thee, O God, for Thou hast helped me to (my) salvation; And hast not
counted me with sinners to (my) destruction. 6Remove not Thy mercy
from me, O God, Nor Thy memorial from my heart until I die.
They already are kings. They are the immortal within the mortal,
and they will condemn the gods of chaos and their powers (125, 714).
After Jesus the Word comes and speaks of disclosing what is
hidden5 and the end times approach, all that is dark and deficient
in the universe will be
undone, and the cosmic structure of the creator and his powers
will collapse. The light will [overcome the] darkness and banish it.
The darkness will be like something that never was, and the source
of darkness will be dissolved. Deficiency will be pulled out by its root
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and cast down into the darkness, and the light will withdraw up to its
root
Ephesians 5:14
Jeremiah 51:7
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made
all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; there,
fore the nations are mad.
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C H A P T E R 62
5 One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call himself by
the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto
the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the
LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there
is no God.
7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order
for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are
coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.
Baruch 2:13-15
13Let your wrath turn from us, for we are but a few left among the
heathen where you have scattered us.
14Hear our prayers, O Lord, and our petitions, and deliver us for
your own sake, and give us favor in the sight of those who have led
us away,
15so that all the earth may know that you are the Lord our God, be,
cause Israel and his posterity is called by your name.
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Baruch 2:33-35
32and they shall praise me in the land of their captivity and think
upon my name,
33and repent from their stiff neck and from their wicked deeds;
for they shall remember the way of their fathers, who sinned before
the Lord.
34And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with
an oath to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be
lords of it; and I will increase them and they shall not be diminished.
Romans 11:25-27
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their
sins.
2 Esdras 2:7
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Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names
be put out of the earth: for they have despised my covenant.
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C H A P T E R 63
1 Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the
face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his
labours.
2 When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, and
shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond all
that they looked for.
3 And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall say
within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision,
and a proverb of reproach:
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5 How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is
among the saints!
6 Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of
righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteous,
ness rose not upon us.
8 What hath pride profited us? or what good hath riches with our
vaunting brought us?
9 All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a post
that hasted by;
Baruch 4:2-5
2Turn you, O Jacob, and take hold of it; walk in the presence of its
light so that you may be illuminated.
3Give not your honor to another, nor the things which are benefi,
cial for you to a strange nation.
4O Israel, happy are we, for the things which are pleasing to God
are made known to us.
14 For his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him
away from among the wicked.
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15 This the people saw, and understood it not, neither laid they up
this in their minds, That his grace and mercy is with his saints, and
that he hath respect unto his chosen.
Psalms 50:5
5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a cove,
nant with me by sacrifice.
“They that put their trust in him shall understand the truth: and
such as be faithful in love shall abide with him: for grace and mercy
is to his saints, and he hath care for his elect.”
Jeremiah 31:35-36
35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day,
and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night,
which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of
hosts is his name:
Isaiah 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even
called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not
known me.
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C H A P T E R 64
Matthew 24:37-39
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son
of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating
and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so
shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
5:7 Speak ye, and proclaim to the sons of men, saying, Thus saith
the Lord, return from your evil ways and forsake your works, and the
Lord will repent of the evil that he declared to do to you, so that it
shall not come to pass.
5:8 For thus saith the Lord, Behold I give you a period of one hun,
dred and twenty years; if you will turn to me and forsake your evil
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ways, then will I also turn away from the evil which I told you, and it
shall not exist, saith the Lord.
5:9 And Noah and Methuselah spoke all the words of the Lord to
the sons of men, day after day, constantly speaking to them.
5:10 But the sons of men would not hearken to them, nor incline
their ears to their words, and they were stiffnecked.
5:11 And the Lord granted them a period of one hundred and
twenty years, saying, If they will return, then will God repent of the
evil, so as not to destroy the earth.
Amos 8:10-12
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs
into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and
baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an
only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a
famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but
of hearing the words of the LORD:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even
to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD,
and shall not find it.
Psalms 81:3
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John 4:35
35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh har,
vest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields;
for they are white already to harvest.
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C H A P T E R 65
Deuteronomy 28:54
54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his
eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his
bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
Peter 10:8-18
8 And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent
them to Joppa.
10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while
they made ready, he fell into a trance,
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12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and
wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing
that is common or unclean.
15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God
hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
16 This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into
heaven.
Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon's house, and stood before
the gate,
Peter 10:28-35
30 And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour;
and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood
before me in bright clothing,
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31 And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had
in remembrance in the sight of God.
congregation in Christ.
James 1:1
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Acts of Peter Lost Scriptures
“Believe us, brother Peter,” they said, “none among humans was so
wise as this Marcellus. All the widows who hoped in Christ took their
refuge in him; all the orphans were fed by him. Will you know more,
brother? All the poor called Marcellus their patron; his house was
called the house of the pilgrims and poor. To him the emperor said,
‘I will give you no office, lest you rob the provinces to benefit the
Christians.’ To this Marcellus replied, ‘Yet everything that is mine is
yours.’ Caesar said to him, ‘It would be mine if you kept it for me, but
now it is not mine, since you give it to whom you please, and who
knows to what low people?’ This, brother Peter, we know and report
to you, now that the great benevolence of the man has been turned
into blasphemy. For had he not been changed we certainly should
not have left the holy faith in God our Lord. Now this Marcellus is
enraged and repents of his good deeds and says, ‘So much wealth
have I spent for such a long time in the foolish belief that I spent it
for the knowledge of God.’ In his rage he even goes so far that when
a pilgrim comes to the door of his house he beats him with a stick or
has him driven off and says, ‘If only I had not spent so much money
on those imposters!’ And he utters many more blasphemies. But if
you have something of the compassion of our Lord in you and the
goodness of his commandments, help this man in his error for he
has shown goodness to a great many of God’s servants.” When Peter
learned this he was very greatly moved and said, “Oh, the manifold
arts and temptations of the devil! Oh, the cunnings and devices of
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the evil one, treasuring up to himself the great fire in the day of
wrath, destruction of simple people, a ravening
wolf devouring and destroying eternal life! You enticed the first
man to evil lust and by your former wickedness and bodily bond
bound him to you. You are the fruit of bitterness, which is entirely
bitter, inducing various desires. You have forced my fellow disciple
and co-apostle Judas to act wickedly and betray our Lord Jesus
Christ; you must be punished. You hardened the heart of Herod and
kindled Pharaoh and made him fight against Moses, the holy servant
of God; you emboldened Caiaphas to deliver our Lord Jesus Christ to
the cruel multitude; and now you are still firing your poisonous
servants of our Lord Jesus Christ. Let your blackness turn against
you and against your sons, the wicked seed; let your wickedness
turn against you, also your threats, and let your temptations turn
against you and your angels, you beginning of iniquity, abyss of
darkness! Let the darkness which you have be with you and your
vessels which you own. Depart, therefore, from those who shall be,
lieve in God; depart from the servants of Christ and from those who
will serve in his army. Keep for yourself your garments of darkness;
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spoken with great sorrow of soul many more believers were
added to the congregation. And the brethren entreated Peter to fight
with Simon and not allow him to disturb the people any longer. And
without delay Peter left the meeting and went to the house of
followed him, said, “You are about to see a great and wonderful
sign.” And Peter saw a big dog, tied by a big chain, and he went and
loosened him. The dog, being loosed, became endowed with a
human voice and said to Peter, “What will you have me do, servant
of the ineffable living God?” to which Peter said, “Go inside and tell
lifting his front legs he said with a very loud voice, “Simon, Peter,
who stands at the door, bids you to come outside in public; for he
says ‘On your account have I come to Rome, you wicked man and
destroyer of simple souls.’ ” When Simon heard this and saw the
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incredible occurrence he lost the words with which he was
10 When Marcellus saw this he ran outside and fell down before
Peter and said, “Peter, holy servant of the holy God, I embrace your
feet. I have committed many sins; do not punish my sins if you have
some true faith in Christ, whom you preach. If you remember the
commandments, to hate none, to do no evil to anyone, as I have
learned from your fellow-apostle Paul, do not consider my sins but
pray for me to the Lord, the holy Son of God, whom I angered by
advocate of God, that I may not be given over with the sins of
Simon, the young god.’ If I knew, Peter, that you could be won over
with money I would give you all my property. I would give it to you,
to save my soul. If I had sons I would esteem them for nothing if only
I could believe in the living God. I confess, however, that he seduced
me only because he said that he was the power of God. Nevertheless
I will tell you, dearest Peter: I was not worthy to hear you, servant of
God, and I was not firmly established in the belief in God which is in
Christ: for this reason I was made to stumble. I pray you, therefore,
be not angry at what I am about to say. Christ our Lord, whom you
preach in truth, said to your fellow-apostles in your presence, ‘If you
have faith like a grain of mustard-seed, you will say to this mountain:
Remove yourself, and at once it shall move.’3 But this Simon called
you, Peter, an unbeliever, because you lost faith on the water. And I
heard that he also said, ‘Those who are with me understood me not.’
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If, therefore, you, upon whom he laid his hands, whom he has also
chosen, with whom he even performed miraculous deeds—if you
doubted, therefore I also repent, and relying upon his testimony I
worship you, O Lord, the Shepherd of the sheep which once were
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whom you call God came and said to me, ‘Chryse, bring ten thou,
sand pieces of gold to my servant Peter; you owe them to him.’ So I
have brought them, fearing that some evil may come from him
whom I saw and who has gone to heaven.” And having said this she
laid down the money and went away. And Peter seeing this praised
God that the poor could now be provided for. Some of those present
said to him, “Peter, is it not wrong to have accepted this money from
her? All Rome knows of her fornication, and it is reported that she is
not satisfied with one husband; she uses even her own slaves.
everything be sent back to her that came from her.” When Peter
heard this he laughed and said to the brethren, “As to her conduct, I
know nothing of it; since I have received this money I received it not
without reason; she brought it to me as a debtor to Christ and gives
it to the servants of Christ. For he himself has provided for them.”
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C H A P T E R 66
Matthew 24:37-39
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son
of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating
and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so
shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Amos 8:9-11
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I
will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in
the clear day:
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs
into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and
baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an
only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
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11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a
famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but
of hearing the words of the LORD:
the eternal realm. Let’s sow in the world to reap in summer. And
for this reason we
but will pull out the young plants, and such do not produce a
crop. [That person’s
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C H A P T E R 67
SIMILITUDE IV.
As in the summer the living trees are distinguished from the dry
by their fruit and green leaves; so in the world to come the righteous
shall be distinguished from the unrighteous by their happiness.
2 These trees, saith he, which are green, are the righteous which
shall possess the world to come. For the world to come, is the sum,
mer to the righteous; but to sinners it is the winter.
3 When, therefore, the mercy of the Lord shall shine forth, then
they who serve God shall be made manifest, and plain unto all. For
as in the summer the fruit of every tree is shown and made manifest,
so also the works of the righteous shall be declared and made mani,
fest, and they shall be restored in that world merry and joyful.
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4 For the other 1 kind of men, namely the wicked, like the trees
which thou sawest dry, shall as such be found dry and without fruit
in that other world; and like dry wood shall be burnt; and it shall be
made manifest that they have done evil all the time of their life;
5 And they shall be burnt because they have sinned and have not
repented of their sins. And also all the other nations shall be burnt,
because they have not acknowledged God their Creator.
6 Do thou therefore bring forth good fruit, that in the summer thy
fruit may be known; and keep thyself from much business, and thou
shalt not offend. For they who are involved in much business, sin
much; because they are taken up with their affairs, and serve not
God.
Revelation 11:8-13
8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,
which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was
crucified.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations
shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and
make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two
prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God
entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear
fell upon them which saw them.
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12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them,
Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and
their enemies beheld them.
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth
part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven
thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the
God of heaven.
[1] Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before
the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his la,
bours.
[2] When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, and
shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond all
that they looked for.
[3] And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall say
within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision,
and a proverb of reproach:
[4] We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without
honour:
[5] How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is
among the saints!
[6] Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of
righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteous,
ness rose not upon us.
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[7] We wearied ourselves in the way of wickedness and destruc,
tion: yea, we have gone through deserts, where there lay no way: but
as for the way of the Lord, we have not known it.
[8] What hath pride profited us? or what good hath riches with our
vaunting brought us?
[9] All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a post
that hasted by;
[10] And as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which
when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the
pathway of the keel in the waves;
[11] Or as when a bird hath flown through the air, there is no token
of her way to be found, but the light air being beaten with the stroke
of her wings and parted with the violent noise and motion of them,
is passed through, and therein afterwards no sign where she went is
to be found;
[14] For the hope of the Godly is like dust that is blown away with
the wind; like a thin froth that is driven away with the storm; like as
the smoke which is dispersed here and there with a tempest, and
passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.
[15] But the righteous live for evermore; their reward also is with
the Lord, and the care of them is with the most High.
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[16] Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beauti,
ful crown from the Lord's hand: for with his right hand shall he cover
them, and with his arm shall he protect them.
[17] He shall take to him his jealousy for complete armour, and
make the creature his weapon for the revenge of his enemies.
[20] His severe wrath shall he sharpen for a sword, and the world
shall fight with him against the unwise.
[21] Then shall the right aiming thunderbolts go abroad; and from
the clouds, as from a well drawn bow, shall they fly to the mark.
[23] Yea, a mighty wind shall stand up against them, and like a
storm shall blow them away: thus iniquity shall lay waste the whole
earth, and ill dealing shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty.
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[1] For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright,
Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no
remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the
grave.
[3] Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes,
and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air,
[4] And our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall
have our works in remembrance, and our life shall pass away as the
trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, that is driven away
with the beams of the sun, and overcome with the heat thereof.
[5] For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after our
end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh
again.
[6] Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are
[7] Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no
flower of the spring pass by us:
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[8] Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered:
[10] Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the
widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.
[11] Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble
is found to be nothing worth.
[12] Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not
for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us
with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the
[15] He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like
other men's, his ways are of another fashion.
[17] Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall
[18] For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and
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[19] Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we
may know his meekness, and prove his patience.
[20] Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own
[21] Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their
own wickedness hath blinded them.
Matthew 24:30
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see
the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great
glory.
Proverbs 1:24-33
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26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear
cometh;
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall
seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of
the LORD:
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be
filled with their own devices.
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the
who do not come from what exists and have forgotten who they
are, may be glorified
by the immortal souls that do exist. The powers have not been
saved or shown the way
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imperishable. For if an immortal
“Many others, who oppose truth and are messengers of error, will
ordain37 their error and their law against my pure thoughts. Since
they see from one perspective
only, they think that good and evil come from the same source.
They do business in
[78] my word.38 And they will establish harsh fate in which the
generation of immortal souls will
run in vain, until my return.39 For the immortal souls will surely
into which they have fallen through their adversaries, and I have
redeemed them from
Luke 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led
away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down
of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
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stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall re,
member themselves. 'And shall know that I am YAHUAH ELOHAY,
HEM: for I will give them a heart, and ears to hear: BARUK RI'SHON (1
BARUK) 2:30-31 אתCEPHER
Psalms 83:1-18
1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not
still, O God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee
have lifted up the head.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are
inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of
Lot. Selah.
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9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at
the brook of Kison:
11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes
as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
possession.
mountains on fire;
16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O
LORD 17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let
them be put to shame, and perish:
18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH,
art the most high over all the earth.
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11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let
her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn
iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces
many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and
their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
Isaiah 51:20-23
20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as
a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke
of thy God.
21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not
with wine:
22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the
cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of
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trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more
drink it again:
23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which
have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast
laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went
over.
Micah 3:11
11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof
teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will
they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none
evil can come upon us.
“You have not come to suffer; rather, you have come to escape
your bondage. Release
yourselves, and that which has bound you will be nullified. Save
yourselves, so that
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So that, if ever those prosperous cities say: Why has EL ELOHIYM
brought upon us this retribution?' Say unto them, you and those like
you who shall have seen this evil: This is the evil and retribution
which is coming upon you and upon your people in its destined time
that the nations may be throughly smitten. And then they shall be in
anguish. And if they say at that time: For how long? You will say to
them: Ye who have drunk the strained wine, drink ye also of its
dregs, the judgment of the Lofty One, who has no respect of per,
sons. On this account he had aforetime no mercy on his own sons,
but afflicted them as his enemies, because they sinned.
Then I saw, that the man, who wrote the cepher at the Word of
YAHUAH of the sheep, that they destroyed more than those who
preceded them. I saw also that YAHUAH of the sheep came to them,
and taking in his hand the sceptre of his wrath seized the earth,
which became rent asunder; while all the beasts and birds of heaven
fell from the sheep, and sunk into the earth, which closed over them.
I saw, too, that a large sword was given to the sheep, who went forth
against all the beasts of the field to slay them. But all the beasts and
birds of heaven fled away from before their face.
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Genesis 27:40-41
40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother;
and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that
thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his fa,
ther blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning
for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
'For EL ELYON hates sinners, and will repay vengeance unto the
wicked, and keeps them against the mighty day of their punishment.
SIRACH (ECCLESIASTICUS) 12:6 אתCEPHER
Romans 12:19
2 Peter 2:9
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SECTION 1
We were given manna from heaven for our hunger, wine because we were thirsty
for the Word, and oil because we were dried up and the Lord anointed our heads. The
Holy Angels have surrounded the camp and they are protecting us from the evil one.
The Lord provided us with the enemy’s plan of attack. He said they will be full of
arrogance, hate, strife, envy, jealousy, greed, and they will prove their ignorance
about God the Creator, His Son, and the Holy Spirit. They will bare false witness and
they will give false testimony. But do not be afraid, I Am with you, see I have told
you ahead of time. So, said the Lord, “Your strength has been renewed, so mount up
and put on your battle gear! Ephesians 6:9-24 Hosanna, the Highest Praise be
given to the Lord!
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