2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 94
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1 En. 22.
Enoch
witnessed
these
chambers
within the
Earth.
Cf. Rom.
8:22 ,
Mt. 24:8 NIV.
and said, Go your way to a
woman with child, and ask
of her, when she has fulfilled
her nine months, if her womb
may keep the birth any longer
within her?
41 Then I said, No lord, that
can she not. And he said unto
me, In the grave, the chambers
of souls are like the womb of
a woman:
42 For like as a woman that
travails, makes haste to escape
the necessity of the travail:
even so do these places haste
to deliver those things that are
committed unto them.
43 From the beginning look
what you desire to see, it shall
be shown you.
How Much Time
Remains?
44 Then I answered, and said,
If I have found favor in your
sight, and if it be possible, and
if I be meet therefore,
45 Show me then whether
there be more to come than is
past, or more past than is to
come.
46 What is past I know; but
what is for to come I know
not.
Y A H U A H ’ S
W A Y S
47 And he said unto me, Stand
up upon the right side, and I
shall expound the similitude
unto you.
48 So I stood and saw, and
behold an hot burning oven
passed by before me: and it
happened that when the flame
was gone by, I looked, and
behold, the smoke remained
still.
49 After this there passed by
before me a watery cloud, and
sent down much rain with a
storm, and when the stormy
rain was past, the drops
remained still.
50 Then he said unto me,
Consider with yourself: as the
rain is more than the drops,
and as the fire is greater than
the smoke: but the drops and
the smoke remain behind: so
the quantity which is past, did
more exceed.
51 Then I prayed, and said,
May I live, you think, until that
time? or what shall happen in
those days?
52 He answered me, and said,
As for the tokens whereof you
asked me, I may tell you of
them in part; but as touching
your life, I am not sent to show
you, for I do not know it.
Or, measure.
Or, who
shall be
manuscript?
“For we know that the whole
creation groaneth and travaileth
in pain together until now.”
Romans 8:22 KJV
