2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 60
Therefore, that originates from 2nd Esdras and nowhere else. Also, the mention of
the lion in this same context appears to originate from 2nd Esdras Vision of the Eagle
Empire. We see the Lion of Yahudah in other places of course in prophecy but in 2nd
Esdras this is very specific to the Lion Messiah who rebukes and consumes that Final
Eagle Empire with fire from His mouth along with all the ungodly, fitting this fragment
with exactness. Nothing else really does at that time. This is specific and Qumran was
reading and applying 2nd Esdras for doctrine and as this is dated 100 B.C., this serves
as evidence 2nd Esdras was indeed already written prior to 100 B.C. [J. T. Milik (DJD, I,
118 - 29)]. Their unscientific guess in date is wrong.
Again, 1st and 2nd Esdras both say they are written by Ezra the Prophet around 400
B.C. or so when he lived. It either was or it is a lie. The Temple Priests at Qumran/
Bethabara were not liars. The Pharisees who control this narrative today are known,
documented liars in scripture by the Son of Yahuah Himself and throughout these
community writings found there. What they kept as scripture such as Jubilees, they did
not misrepresent themselves as writing in any instance. They never pretend to be a
prophet by precedence in the whole of the Old Testament unless they were a prophet.
The notion is illiterate, inept and a lie from liars who approve of such false actions.
This is enough to establish 1st Esdras as the “Proto-Esther” claimed fragment, really
as Proto-1st Esdras instead and 2nd Esdras at least in tone and content being quoted
and used in interpretation, whether direct fragments were found or not as Dead Sea
Scrolls. This connection is strong and this is why we chose to publish these two books
in The Levite Bible that represents the rest of the Bible or scroll library of the only
qualified community to keep scripture Biblically. They were reading and applying these
two books in Qumran/Bethabara.
We firmly believe they belong in this library and it certainly affirms the thinking
and content generally and specifically which we will test even further. This is why you
see this continued even in Bible canons in publishing all the way through history even
as late as the 1560 Geneva Bible and 1611 King James Version with yet some Bible
versions continuing this practice to this very day. The historicity of 1st and 2nd Esdras
is unquestionable as it has been used as inspired all along regardless of an erroneous
classification of Apocrypha which is a term that originates from the Pharisees who have
no authority to determine such and whose canon is impertinent. These are linked to the
Dead Sea Scroll community in which scripture was kept. Pharisees are not.
3. Acceptance
Esdras not only aligns with the Old Testament view of Israel very strictly as he
mourns for Yerusalem’s destruction and intercedes on behalf of both the Northern and
Southern Kingdom’s of Israel, but the New as well. He speaks of Messiah’s birth, death,
ascension and Second Coming, the re-gathering, the Day of Judgment and beyond as
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