2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 67
Matthew 24:8 NIV
All these are the beginning of birth pains.
For wickedness will increase in the last days says Messiah. However, Ezra wrote it first
in 2nd Esdras. Once again, Yahusha quotes 2nd Esdras. How could anyone say that
which Messiah quoted could ever be anything but inspired?
2nd Esdras 5:2
But iniquity shall be increased above that which now you see, or
that you have heard long ago.
Matthew 24:12 KJV
Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,
Matthew 24:37 KJV (Luke 17:26)
As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the
Son of Man.
Did you know that Revelation is not the first to mention several concepts which you
will find in 2nd Esdras in origin. We will not cover them all because the list would be
massive. Here is a very specific such passage after the Third Trumpet which would be
the Fourth.
2nd Esdras 5:4
But if the Most High grant you to live, you shall see after the third trumpet,
that the Sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the
Moon thrice in the day.
Revelation 8:12 KJV
And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was
smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the
stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day
shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
How did Ezra know 400 years before Messiah and 500 years before Revelation that the
Fourth Trumpet would lead to the sun, moon and stars darkening? He even specifically
knew a third part even. Ezra truly had an encounter of like experience to John and John
was well aware of Ezra’s visions. Messiah lays out a profound doctrine that the path
to salvation is a narrow one. The same language and concept in greater detail derives
from 2nd Esdras.
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