2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 148
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Mankind
is not
advancing
despite what
technology
appears.
Of course,
examine
those
and much
of those
inventions
are used
to kill, steal
and destroy.
Even man
physically
is growing
weaker
and deevolving not
advancing.
world shall be weaker through
age: so much the more shall
evils increase upon them that
dwell therein.
18 For the truth is fled far
away, and leasing is hard at
hand: For now hastes the
vision to come, which you
have seen.
Ezra’s Concern to Restore
the Scriptures
19 Then I answered before
you, and said,
20 Behold, Yahuah, I will go
as you have commanded me,
and reprove the people which
are present, but they that shall
be born afterward, who shall
admonish them? thus the
world is set in darkness, and
they that dwell therein, are
without light.
21 For your law is burnt,
therefore no man knows the
things that are done of you, or
Cf. 2 Ki. 25:9.
the works that shall begin.
22 But if I have found grace
before you, send the Holy
Ghost into me, and I shall
write all that has been done in
The Law will the world, since the beginning,
be restored
in the which were written in your
Latter Days
according Law, that men may find your
to Ezra and
abundant path, and that they which will
scripture. live in the latter days, may live.
23 And he answered me,
O F
T O R A H
saying, Go your way, gather
the people together, and say
unto them, that they seek you
not for fourty days.
24 But prepare you many box
trees, and take with you Sarea,
Dabria, Selemia, Ethanus and Or, box
tables to
Asiel, these five which are write on, See
ver.44.
ready to write swiftly.
25 And come hither, and
I shall light a candle of
understanding in your heart,
which shall not be put out, til
the things be performed which
you shall begin to write.
26 And when you have done,
some things shall you publish,
and some things shall you
show secretly to the wise:
tomorrow this hour shall you
begin to write.
Ezra’s Last Words to the
People
27 Then I went forth as he
commanded, and gathered all
the people together, and said,
28 Hear these words, O Israel.
29 Our fathers at the
beginning were strangers in
Egypt, from whence they were Cf. Gn. 47:4.
delivered:
Cf. Rom. 8:2.
This term
30 And received the law of referring
the Law
life which they kept not, which to
originates in
you also have transgressed 2 Esdras.
Cf. Acts 7:53.
after them.
31 Then was the land, even the
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