2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 99
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CHAPTER 6:
C R E A T I O N
through none other: by me
also they shall be ended, and
by none other.
1 Elohim’s purpose is eternal.
8 The next world shall follow
this immediately. 13 What shall
fall out at the last. 31 He is
promised more knowledge, 38
and reckon up the works of the
creation, 57 and complain that
they have no part in the world
for whom it was made.
The Dividing of the
Times
1 And he said unto me, in the
beginning when the earth was
Or, circle of
the earth. made, before the borders of
Note: A circle
is 2- the world stood, or ever the
dimensional.
The ancient winds blew,
perspective
Before it thundered
was not that 2
of a sphere.
and lightened, or ever the
foundations of Paradise were
laid,
3 Before the fair flowers were
seen, or ever the moveable
powers were established,
before
the
innumerable
multitude of Angels were
gathered together,
4 Or ever the heights of the
air were lifted up, before the
measures of the firmament
were named, or ever the
chimnies in Sion were hot,
5 And before the present years
were sought out, and before
the inventions of them that
now sin were turned, before
they were sealed that have
gathered faith for a treasure:
6 Then did I consider these
things, and they all were
made through me alone, and
7 Then I answered and said,
What shall be the parting
assunder of the times? or
when shall be the end of the
first, and the beginning of it
that follows?
8 And he said unto me, From
Abraham unto Isaac, when
Yacob and Esau were born of
him, Yacob’s hand held first
the heel of Esau.
9 For Esau is the end of
the world, and Yacob is the
beginning of it that follows.
10 The hand of man is
between the heel and the
hand: other question, Ezra,
ask you not.
More Signs of the End
11 I answered then and said,
O Yahuah that bears rule, if I
have found favor in thy sight,
12 I beseech you, show your
servant the end of your tokens,
whereof you showed me part
the last night.
13 So he answered and said
unto me, Stand up upon
your feet, and hear a mighty
sounding voice.
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Cf. Gn.25:26.
Or, from the
beginning.
The War
Scroll
(iQM,
1Q33,4Q4917,4Q471)
identifies
Edom as one
of the “sons
of Darkness”
whom true
Israel will
fight to
the very
end. Edom
is Esau.
They will be
consumed
in the end
of this world
and those
grafted into
Yacob’s
covenant
will be the
beginning
of the next
world.
