2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 108
7 : M E S S I A H
CHAPTER 7:
4 The way is narrow. 12 When it
was made narrow. 28 All shall
die and rise again. 33 Messiah
shall sit in judgement. 46
Elohim has not made Paradise
in vain, 62 and is merciful.
Response to Ezra’s
Questions
1 And when I had made an
end of speaking these words,
there was sent unto me the
Elohim is a Angel which had been sent
classification unto me the nights before.
of heavenly
being not 2 And he said unto me, Up
exclusive to
Yahuah and Ezra, and hear the words that
is plural.
I am come to tell you.
3 And I said, Speak on, my
Elohim. Then said he unto
me, The Sea is set in a wide
place, that it might be deep
and great.
4 But put the case the entrance
were narrow, and like a river,
5 Who then could go into the
Sea to look upon it, and to rule
it? If he went not through the
narrow, how could he come
into the broad?
6 There is also another thing.
A city is builded, and set upon
Cf. a broad field, and is full of all
Mt. 7:13-14.
Narrow path good things.
Messiah
The entrance thereof
quoted 2 7
Esdras.
is narrow, and is set in a
Or, steepe dangerous place to fall, like as
place.
if there were a fire on the right
R E V E A L E D
hand, and on the left a deep
water.
8 And one only path between
them both, even between the
fire and the water, so small
that there could but one man
go there at once.
9 If this city now were given
unto a man for an inheritance,
if he never shall pass the
danger set before it, how shall
he receive this inheritance?
10 And I said, It is so, lord.
Then he said unto me, Even
so also is Israel’s portion:
11 Because for their sakes
I made the world: and
when Adam transgressed my
Statutes, then was decreed
that now is done.
12 Then were the entrances
of this world made narrow,
full of sorrow and travail: they
are but few and evil, full of
perils, and very painful.
13 For the entrances of the Or, greater
elder world were wide and
sure, and brought immortal
fruit.
14 If then they that live, labor Cf. Mt. 7;
15.
not to enter these straight and Jn.
Salvation
vain things, they can never is free but
requires
receive those that are laid up effort in
relationship.
for them.
15 Now therefore why disquiet
yourself, seeing you are but a
corruptible man? and why are
you moved, whereas you are
but mortal?
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