And measures and matters of The Truth of the "time" we are in ...how "man" ..."thought to change time and times ... Dearly beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, how that one day is with the Lord, as a thousand year, and a thousand year as one day.
The Lord is not slack to fulfil his promise, as some men count slackness: but is patient to us ward, and would have no man lost, but would receive all men to repentance.
Behold in a dread full dream during the whoreable nightmare of the dark season ...of the times and time ..of the season of man ...see son of man ...
and i was taken and shown two young men ...
and they did not understand about "marriage" or "work" ...
and they thought women were someone to "play with" ...mostly on their phones ...
even as they had been taught women and men are the SAME ...men can be feminine ...and woman can be manly ...they being equal to each other in all things ...
even "toy" with ...using certain apps and phrases and games ...
and "work" was just a thing to do ...to have what ever money anyone might need or want ...especially for trendy clothes and phones and devices ...
and
"getting sick "at work ( imagined or real ) for any reason was
the
"thing" to do ...for almost any thing that any "wants to do"
...is more important than anything an employer would want ...
and of course there is always THE LAW ...OR WHAT'S LEFT OF THE LAW ...to be used against an employer... if the employer refuses to do what anyone WANTS TO DO. PERIOD
EVEN THAT THE AMERICAN WORK ETHIC BE UTTERLY DESTROYED. PERIOD
AND
THEREBY DESTROYING THE AMERICAN WORKFORCE. PERIOD
and scripture came back to remembrance
...
For the wrath of God appeareth from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men which withhold the truth in unrighteousness: seeing,
what may be known of God, that same is manifest among them. For God did show it
unto them. So that his invisible things: that is to say, his eternal power and
godhead, are understood and seen, by the works from the creation of the world.
So that they are without excuse, in as much as when they knew God, they
glorified him not as God, neither were thankful but waxed full of vanities in
their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were blinded. When they counted
themselves wise, they became fools and turned the glory of the immortal God,
unto the similitude of the image of mortal man, and of birds, and fourfooted
beasts, and of serpents. Wherefore God like wise gave them up unto their
hearts lusts, unto uncleanness, to defile their own bodies between themselves:
which turned his truth unto a lie, and worshipped and served the creatures
more then the maker, which is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave
them up unto shameful lusts. For even their women did change the natural use
unto the unnatural. And likewise also the men left the natural use of the woman,
and burned in their lusts one on another. And man with man wrought filthiness,
and received in themselves the reward of their error, as it was according.
And as it seemed not good unto them to be a known of God, even so God
delivered them up unto a lewd mind, that they should do those things which
were not comely, being full of all unrighteous doing, of fornication,
wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit,
evil conditioned, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, doers of wrong, proud,
boasters, bringers up of evil things, disobedient to father and mother, without
understanding, covenant breakers, unloving, truce breakers and merciless. Which
men though they knew the righteousness of God, how that they which commit such
things, are worthy of death, yet not only do the same, but also have pleasure
in them that do them. …Thy
shepherds are a sleep ( O king of Assur ) thy worthies
are laid down: thy people is scattered abroad upon the mountains, and no
man gathereth them together again. Thy wound cannot be healed, thy plague
is so sore. All they that hear this of thee, shall clap their hands over
thee.… The
Lord hateth as well him that justifieth the ungodly, as him
that condemeth the innocent. For
this cause God gave them up unto shameful lusts. THE
FIRST TO THE CORINTHIANS Chpt 10 And I
would not that ye should have fellowship with the devils. Ye cannot drink of the
cup of the Lord, and of the cup of the devils. Ye can not be partakers of the
Lords table, and of the table of devils. Either shall we provoke the Lord? Or
are we stronger then he? All things are lawful unto me, but all things are
not *expedient. All things are lawful to me, but all things edify not. Let no
man seek his own profit: but let every man seek anothers wealth. …Seeing
thou puttest thy confidence in thine own ways, and leanest to the
multitude of thy worthies: there
shall grow a sedition among thy people.… HE
FIRST OF THE MACHABEES Chpt 1 In those days went there out of Israel wicked men, which moved much people
with their council, saying: Let us go and make a covenant with the Heathen, that
are round about us: for since we departed from them, we have had much
sorrow. So this device pleased them well, and certain of the people took upon
them for to go unto the king, which gave them license to do after the ordinances
of the Heathen. Then set they up an open school ( at Jerusalem ) of the laws
of the Heathen, and were no more circumcised: but forsook the holy Testament,
and joined themselves to the Heathen, and were clean sold to do mischief. …The
horseman shall not save his life, and he that is manly
of stomach as the giant, shall in that day be fain to run his way naked,
saith the Lord. * To lay beside every hill alter upon clothes
taken to pledge, is , to serve their gods taken by extortion from the
poor. … THE
GOSPELL OF ST. MATTHEW Chpt 25 When the son of man cometh in his glory, and
all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his glory,
and before him shall be gathered all nations. And he shall separate them one
from another, as a shepherd divideth the sheep from the goats. And he shall set
the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on the left. Then shall the King
say to them on his right hand: Come ye blessed children of my father, inherit ye
the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world. For I was an
hungered, and ye gave me meat. I thirsted, and ye gave me drink. I was
harborless, and ye lodged me. I was naked and ye clothed me. I was sick and ye
visited me. I was in prison and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer
him saying: master, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or a thirst, and
gave thee drink? when saw we thee harborless, and lodged thee? or naked and
clothed thee? or when saw we thee sick or in prison and came unto thee? And the
king shall answer and say unto them: Verily I say unto you: in as much as ye
have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me. Then shall the
king say unto them that shall be on
the left hand:
depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire: which is prepared for the devil
and his angels. …He
said unto me: Stand up and be manly,
and I shall give thee exhortation. Then
said I: Speak on to me my Lord, forsake me not, least I die in vain: for I
have seen that I knew not, and heard that I do not know. Or shall my
understanding be deceived, and my mind?… The
Lord hateth as well him that justifieth the ungodly, as him
that condemeth the innocent. THE
GOSPELL OF ST. LUKE Chpt 17 And he said unto the disciples: The days will come, when ye shall desire to
see one day of the son of man, and ye shall not see it. And they shall say to
you: See here, See there. Go not after them, nor follow them, for as the
lightning that appeareth out of the one part of the heaven: and shineth unto the
other part of heaven. So shall the son of man be in his days. But first must he
suffer many things, and be refused of this nation. This
understand, that in the last days shall come parlous times. For the men shall be
lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, cursed speakers,
disobedient to father and mother, unthankful, unholy, unkind, trucebreakers,
stubborn, false accusers, rioters, fierce despisers of them which are good,
traitors, heady, high minded, greedy upon voluptuousness more then lovers of
God, having a similitude of Godly living, but have denied the power thereof: and
such abhor. Of this sort are they which enter into houses, and bring into
bondage women laden with sin, which women are led of *diverse lusts, ever
learning and never able to come unto the knowledge of the truth. There were
tyrants in the world in those days. For after that the children of God had gone
in unto the daughters of men, and had begotten them children, the same children
were the mightiest of the world, and men of renown. And when the Lord saw that
the wickedness of man was increased upon the earth, and that all the imagination
and thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, he repented that
he had made man upon the earth, and sorrowed in his heart. And said: I will
destroy mankind which I have made, from off the face of the earth: both man,
beast, worm and fowl of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them. But
yet Noe found grace in the sight of the Lord. Every man can *eschue a person moved to anger, for what he doth
wisely? Even so shall the Lord of Hosts take away from Jerusalem and
from Juda, all possessions and power, all meat and drink, the captain and the
soldier, the judge and the prophet, the wise and the aged man, the worshipful of
fifty year old, and the honorable: the Senators, and the men of understanding:
the masters of crafts and orators. And I shall give you children to be
your princes,( sayeth the Lord ) and babes shall have the rule of you. One shall
ever be doing violence and wrong to another. The boy will presume against the
elder, and the vile person against the honorable. Ye when one shall take a
friend of his own kindred by the bosom, and say: Thou hast clothing, thou shalt
be our head, for thou mayest keep us from this fall and peril. *eschue
(avoid, escape) *ribaudes ( extortioners :MN). *partlets = ruffled covering for
the neck. *taches = buckles, clasps, fasteners. *son burning exactly as recorded And the Lord appeared unto him in the oak grove of Mamre as he sat in his
tent door in the heat of the day. And he lifted up his eyes and looked: and lo,
three men stood not far from him. And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from
the tent door, and fell to the ground and said: Lord if I have found favour in
thy sight: go not by thy servant. Let a little water be fetched, and wash your
feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: And I will fetch a morsel of bread, to
comfort your hearts withal. And then go your ways, for even therefore are ye
come to your servant. And they answered: Do even so as thou hast said. And
Abraham went a pace into his tent unto Sara and said: make ready at once three
pecks of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes. And Abraham ran unto his beasts
and fetched a calf that was tender and good, and gave it unto a young man which
made it ready at once. And he took butter and milk and the calf which he had
prepared, and set it before them, and stood himself by them under the tree: and
they ate. And there came two angels to Sodom at even. And Lot sat at the
gate of the city. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them, and he bowed
himself to the ground with his face. And he said: See lords, turn in I pray you
in to your servants house and tarry all night and wash your feet, and rise up
early and go on your ways. And they said: nay, but we will bide in the streets
all night. And he compelled them exceedingly. And they turned in unto him and
entered into his house, and he made them a feast and did bake sweet cakes, and
they ate. But before they went to rest, the men of the city of Sodom
compassed the house round about both old and young, all the people from all
quarters. And they called unto Lot and said unto him: where are the men which
came into thy house to night? bring them out unto us that we may do our lust
with them. THE
FOURTH BOOK OF ESDRAS Chpt 2 Thus sayeth the Lord: I brought this people out of bondage, I gave
them my commandments by my servants the Prophets, whom thou wouldest not hear,
but despised my counsels. The mother that bear them, sayeth unto them: Go
your way ye children, for I am a widow and forsaken: I brought you up with
gladness, but with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you: for ye have sinned
before the Lord your God, and done the thing that is evil before him. But what
shall I now do unto you? I am a widow and forsaken: go your way, O my children,
and ask mercy of the Lord. As for me, O' father, I call upon thee for a witness
over the mother of these children, which would not keep my covenant: that thou
bring them to confusion, and their mother to a spoil, that she bear no more. Let
their names be scattered abroad among the heathen, let them be put out of the
earth, for they have thought scorn of my covenant. THE
FOURTH BOOK OF ESDRAS Chpt 5 Nevertheless, as concerning the tokens, mark this: Behold, the days
shall come, that they which dwell upon the earth, shall be taken in a great
number, and the way of the truth shall be hid, and the land shall be barren from
faith: but iniquity will have the upper hand, like as thou have seen now, and as
thou hast heard long ago. And the land that thou seest now to have rule,
shall thou shortly see waste. But if God grant thee to live, thou shalt see
after the third trumpet, that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night,
and the moon three times in the day, and blood shall drop out of wood, and the
stone shall give his voice, and the people shall be unquiet: and even shall
rule, whom they hope not that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall
flight, and the *Sodomitish sea shall cast out his fish, and make a noise in the
night, which many shall not know, but they shall all hear the voice thereof. *Sodomitish sea (*note current events RN) shall cast out
his fish THE
FOURTH BOOK OF ESDRAS Chpt 7 And it happened after that I had spoke out these words, that there was sent
unto me an angel, which had been by me also the nights afore, and he said unto
me: Up Esdras, and hear the words that I am come to tell thee. And I said: speak
on Lord my God. Then said he unto me: The sea is set in a wide place, that it
might be deep and great: but the entrance is narrow and small like a river. For
who would go into the sea, to look upon it, and rule it? If he went not through
the narrow, how might he come into the broad? *suffered (allowed) THE
GOSPELL OF ST. MATTHEW Chpt 10 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor will hear your
preaching: when ye depart out of that house or that city, shake off the dust of
your feet. Truly I say unto you: it shall be easier for the land of Sodom and
Gomorra in the day of judgement, than for that city. THE
GOSPELL OF ST. LUKE Chpt 17 When he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should
come he answered them and said: The kingdom of God cometh not with waiting for.
Neither shall men say: Lo here, lo there. For behold the kingdom of God is with
in you. *trow (think) *Zodom
(Sodom), and
others of a similitude ... "UNGodlie
whining womanly generation... " "the
aged manly man and the swords. "
Then shall the king say unto them that
shall be on the left hand: depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire:
which is prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and
ye gave me no meat. I thirsted, and ye gave me no drink. I was harborless, and
ye lodged me not. I was naked, and ye clothed me not. I was sick and in prison,
and ye visited me not.
Then shall they also answer him saying:
master, when saw we thee an hungered, or a thirst, or harborless, or naked, or
sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them
and say: Verily I say unto you, in as much as ye did it not to one of the least
of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go into everlasting pain: And the
righteous into life eternal
As it happened in the time of Noe: So shall
it be in the time of the son of man. They ate, they drank, they married wives
and were married, even unto the same day that Noe went into the Ark: and the
flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise also, as it chanced in the days
of lot. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built.
And even the same day that Lot went out of *Zodom, it rained fire and brimstone
from heaven, and destroyed them all. After these examples, shall it be in the
day when the son of man shall appear.
At that day he that is on the house top and
his stuff in the house: let him not come down to take it out. And likewise let
not him that is in the fields, turn back again to that he left behind. Remember
Lots wife. Whosoever will go about to save his life, shall lose it: And
whosoever shall lose his life, shall save it. I tell you in that night, there
shall be two in one bed, that one shall be received and the other shall be
forsaken. Two shall be also a grinding together: the one shall be received, and
the other forsaken. And they answered, and said unto him: where Lord? And he
said unto them: wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the eagles
resort.
Then shall he swear and say: I can not
help you. Moreover, there is neither meat nor clothing in my house, make me
no ruler of the people. For Jerusalem and Juda must decay, because both their
words and counsel are against the Lord, they provoke the presence of his Majesty
unto anger. The changing of their countenance betrayeth them, yee they
declare their own sins themselves, as the Sodomites, and hide them not. Woe be
unto their souls, for they shall be heavily rewarded. Then shall they say: O
happy are the godly, for they may enjoy the fruits of their studies. But woe
be unto the ungodly and unrighteous for they shall be rewarded after their
works. O my people, *ribaudes oppress thee, and women have rule of thee. O my
people, thy leaders deceive thee, and tread out the way of thy footsteps.
The Lord is here to commune of the matter, and standeth to give judgement with
the people. The Lord shall come forth to reason with the Senators and princes of
his people, and shall say thus unto them: It is ye that have burnt up my
vineyard, the robbery of the poor is in your house. Wherefore do ye oppress my
people, and marred the faces of the innocents? thus shall the Lord God of Hosts
revile them.
Moreover thus sayeth the Lord: Seeing the
daughters of Sion are become so proud, and come in with stretched out necks, and
with vain wanton eyes: seeing they come in tripping so nicely with their feet:
Therefore shall the Lord shave the heads of the daughters of Sion, and make
their beauty bare in the day. In that day shall the Lord take away the
gorgeousness of their apparel, and spangles, chains, *partlets, and collars,
bracelets and hooves, that goodly flowered wide and boarded raiment, brushes and
head bands, rings and garlands, holy day clothes and veils, kerchiefs and pins,
glasses and smocks, bonnets and *taches
And instead of good smell there shall be
stink among them. And for their girdles there shall be loose bands. And for well
set hair there shall be baldness. Instead of a stomacher, a sackcloth, and for
their beauty witherdness and *son burning. Their husbands and their mighty men
shall perish with the sword in battle
And they said unto him: Where is Sara thy
wife? And he said: in the tent. And he said: I will come again unto thee as soon
as the fruit can live. And lo: Sara thy wife shall have a son. That heard Sara,
out of the tent door which was behind his back. Abraham and Sara were both old
and well stricken in age, and it ceased to be with Sara after the manner as it
is with wives. And Sara laughed in her self saying: Now I am waxed old, shall I
give my self to lust, and my lord old also? Then said the Lord unto Abraham:
wherefore doth Sara laugh saying: shall I of a surety bear a child, now when I
am old? is the thing too hard for the Lord to do? In the time appointed will I
return unto thee, as soon as the fruit can have life, And Sara shall have a son.
Then Sara denied it saying: I laughed not, for she was afraid. But he said: yes
thou laughtest. Then the men stood up from there and looked toward Sodom.
And Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. And the Lord said: Can I
hide from Abraham that thing which I am about to do, seeing that Abraham shall
be a great and a mighty people, and all the nations of the earth shall be
blessed in him? For I know him that he will command his children and his
household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do after right and
conscience, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that he hath promised him.
And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and
Gomorra is great, and their sin is exceeding grievous. I will go down and
see whether they have done altogether according to that cry which is come unto
me or not, that I may know. And the men departed there and went to Sodomward.
But Abraham stood yet before the Lord, and drew near and said. Wilt thou destroy
the righteous with the wicked? If there be fifty righteous within the city, wilt
thou destroy it and not spare the place for the sake of fifty righteous that are
therein? That be far from thee, that thou shouldest do after this manner, to
slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the
wicked: that be far from thee. Should not the judge of all the world do
according to right? And the Lord said: If I find in Sodom fifty righteous
within the city, I will spare all the place for their sakes.
And Abraham answered and said: behold I have
taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, and yet am but dust and ashes. What though
there lack five of fifty righteous, wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of
five? And he said: If I find there forty and five I will not destroy them. And
he spake unto him yet again and said: what if there be forty found there. And he
said: I will not do it for fortys sake. And he said: O let not my Lord be angry,
that I speak. What if there be found thirty there? And he said: I will not do
it, if I find thirty there. And he said: Oh, see, I have begun to speak unto my
Lord, what if there be twenty found there? And he said: I will not destroy them
for twentys sake. And he said: O let not my Lord be angry, that I speak yet, but
even once more only. What if ten be found there? And he said: I will not
destroy them for tens sake. And the Lord went his way as soon as he had left
communing with Abraham. And Abraham returned unto his place
And Lot went out at doors unto them and shut
the door after him and said: nay for Gods sake brethren, do not so wickedly.
Behold I have two daughters which have known no man, them will I bring out unto
you: do with them as it seemeth you good: Only unto these men do nothing, for
therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. And they said: come hither. And
they said: camest thou not in to sojourn, and wilt thou be now a judge? we will
surely deal worse with thee than with them.
And as they pressed sore upon Lot and began
to break up the door, the men put forth their hands and pulled Lot into the
house to them and shut to the door. And the men that were at the door of the
house, they smote with blindness both small and great: so that they could not
find the door. And the men said moreover unto Lot: If thou have yet here any son
in law or sons or daughters or whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring it out of
this place: for we must destroy this place, because the cry of them is great
before the Lord. Wherefore he hath sent us to destroy it.
And Lot went out and spake unto his sons in
law which should have married his daughters, and said: stand up and get you out
of this place, for the Lord will destroy the city. But he seemed as though he
had mocked, unto his sons in law. And as the morning arose the angels caused Lot
to speed him saying. Stand up, take thy wife and thy two daughters and that,
that is at hand, lest thou perish in the sin of the city. And as he prolonged
the time, the men caught both him, his wife and his two daughters by the hands,
because the Lord was merciful unto him, and they brought him forth and set him
without the city. When they had brought them out, they said: Save thy life and
look not behind thee neither tarry thou in any place of the country, but save
thyself in the mountain, lest thou perish. Then said Lot unto them: O nay my
Lord: behold, inasmuch as thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, now make
thy mercy great, which thou showest unto me in saving my life. For I cannot save
myself in the mountains, lest some misfortune fall upon me and I die. Behold,
here is a city by, to flee unto, and it is a little one, let me save myself
therein: is it not a little one, that my soul may live? And he said to him: see
I have received thy request as concerning this thing, that I will not overthrow
this city for the which thou hast spoken. Haste thee, and save thyself there,
for I can do nothing till thou be come in thither. And therefore the name of the
city is called Zoar. And the sun was upon the earth when Lot was entered into
Zoar.
Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and
Gomorra, brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven, and overthrew those
cities and all the region, and all that dwelled in the cities, and that, that
grew upon the earth. And Lots wife looked behind her, and was turned in to a
pillar of salt.
Abraham rose up early and got him to the
place where he stood before the Lord, and looked toward Sodom and Gomorra and
toward all the land of that country. And as he looked: behold, the smoke of
the country arose as it had been the smoke of a furnace. But yet when God
destroyed the cities of the region, he thought upon Abraham: and sent Lot out
from the danger of the overthrowing, when he overthrew the cities where Lot
dwelled.
And Lot departed out of Zoar and dwelled in
the mountains and his two daughters with him for he feared to tarry in Zoar: he
dwelled therefore in a cave, both he and his two daughters also. Then said the
elder unto the younger: our father is old, and there are no more men in the
earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the world. Come therefore, let
us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him that we may save seed
of our father. And they gave their father wine to drink that same night. And the
elder daughter went and lay with her father. And he perceived it not, neither
when she lay down, neither when she rose up.
And on the morrow the elder said unto the
younger: behold, yesternight lay I with my father. Let us give him wine to drink
this night also, and go thou and lie with him, and let us save seed of our
father. And they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And the
younger arose and lay with him. And he perceived it not: neither when she lay
down, neither when she rose up. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child
by their father. And the elder bare a son and called him Moab, which is the
father of the Moabites unto this day. And the younger bare a son and called him
Ben Ammi, which is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day
Woe be unto the Assur, thou that hidest
the unrighteous by thee. Thou wicked people, remember what I did unto Sodom and
Gomorha, whos land is turned to pitch and ashes. Even so also I will do unto all
them, that hear me not, sayeth the almighty Lord. Thus sayeth the Lord unto
Esdras: Tell my people, that I will give them the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which I
would have given unto Israel. Their glory also will I take unto me, and give
them the everlasting tabernacles, which I had prepared for those.
The tree of life shall be unto them a sweet
smelling ointment: they shall neither labor or be weary. Go ye your way, and ye
shall receive it. Pray for yourselves a few days, that they may dwell therein.
Now is the Kingdom prepared for you, therefore watch. Take heaven and earth to
witness for I have broken the evil in pieces, and created the good, for I live
sayeth the Lord. Mother embrace thy children, and bring them up with gladness:
make their feet as fast as a piler, for I have chosen them, sayeth the Lord.
And those that be dead will I raise up again
from their places, and bring them out of their graves, for I have known my name
in Israel. Fear not thou mother of the children, for I have chosen thee, sayeth
the Lord. And for thy help I will send thee my servants Isaie and Jeremy, after
whos counsel I have sanctioned and prepared for the twelve trees with diverse
fruits, and as many wells, flowing with milk and honey, and seven mountains,
where upon there grow roses and lilies, wherein I will fill my children with
joy. Execute justice for the widow, be judge for the fatherless: give to the
poor: heal the wounded and the sick: laugh not a lame man to scorn: defend the
cripple, and let the blind come into the light of my clearness. Keep the old and
the young within thy walls: wheresoever thou findest the dead, take them, and
bury them, and I shall give you thee, the first place in my resurrection. Hold
still (O' my people) and take thy rest, for thy quietness is come. Feed thy
children O' thou good nurse, establish their feet: As for the servants whom I
have given thee, there shall not be one of them perish, for I will seek them
from thy number, vex not thy self.
For when the day of trouble and heaviness
cometh, others shall weep and be sorrowful, but thou shall be merry and
plenteous. The heathen shall be jealous, but they shall be able to do nothing
against thee, sayeth the Lord. My hands shall cover thee, so that thy children
shall not see the fire everlasting. Be joyful O' thou mother with thy children,
for I will deliver thee, sayeth the Lord. Remember thy dead children, for I
shall bring them out of the earth, and show mercy unto them, for I am merciful,
sayeth the Lord almighty.
Embrace thy children, until I come, and
show mercy unto them, for my wells run over, and my grace shall not fail.
I Esdras received a charge of the Lord upon
the mount Oreb, that I should go unto Israel. But when I came unto Israel they
set me at naught, and destroyed the commandment of the Lord. And therefore I say
unto you, O' ye Heathen that hear and understand: Look for your shepherd, he
shall give you everlasting rest: for he is nigh at hand, that shall come in the
end of the world. Be ready to the reward of the Kingdom, for the everlasting
light shall shine upon you for evermore. Flee the shadows of this world, receive
the joyfulness of your glory. I testify my favor openly: O' receive the gift
that is given you, and be glad, giving thanks unto him, that hath called you to
the heavenly Kingdom.
Arise up! and stand fast: behold the number
of those that be sealed in the feast of the Lord, which are departed from the
shadow of the world, and have received glorious garments of the Lord. Take thy
number O' Sion, and shut up thy purified, which have fulfilled the law of the
Lord. The number of thy children that thou longest for, is fulfilled: beseech
the power of the Lord, that thy people which have been called from the
beginning, may be hallowed.
I Esdras saw upon the mount Sion a great
people, whom I could not number, and they all praised the Lord with songs of
thanksgiving. And in the mist of them was a young man of high stature, more
excellent that all they, and on every one of their heads he set a crown, and was
ever higher and higher, which I marveled at greatly. So I asked the angel, and
said: Sir, what are these? He answered and said unto me: These be they that have
put off the mortal clothing and put on the immortal, and have testified and
knowledged the name of God. Now are they crowned and receive the reward.
Then said I unto the angel: what young
person is it, that crowneth them, and giveth them the palms in their hands? So
he answered and said unto me: It is the son of God, whom they have knowledged in
the world. Then began I greatly to commend them, that stood so stiffly for the
name of the Lord. And so the angel said unto me: Go thy way, and tell my people,
what manner of things and how great wonders of the Lord thy God, thou hast seen!
There shall be a confusion also in many
places, and the fire shall be often sent again, and the wild beasts shall go
their way, and menstruous women shall bear monsters, and salt waters will be
found in the sweat: one friend shall fight against another: then shall all wit
and understanding be hid and put into their secret places, and shall be sought
of many, and yet not be found: then shall unrighteousness and voluptuousness
have the upper hand upon the earth. One land shall also ask another, and say: Is
righteousness gone through thee? And it shall say: No, at the same time shall
men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor but their wages shall not
prosper.
To show thee such tokens I have leave, and
if thou wilt pray again, and weep as now, and fast seven days, thou shalt hear
yet greater things. Then I awaked, and a fearfulness went through all my body,
and my mind was feeble and careful, so that I almost sounded withal. So the
angel that was come to talk with me, held me, comforted me, and set me up upon
my feet.
And in the second night it happened, that
Salathielthe Captain of the people came unto me, saying: Where hast thou been?
and why is thy countenance so heavy? Knowest thou not, that Israel is committed
unto thee, in the land of their captivity? Up then, and eat and forsake us not,
as the shepherd that leaveth his flock in the hands of the wicked wolves. Then
said I unto him: Go thy way from me, and come not near me: and he heard it, and
as I said, so went he his way from me. And so I fasted seven days, mourning and
weeping, like as Uriel the angel commanded me. And after seven days it happened,
that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me again, and my soul
received the spirit of understanding, and I began to talk with the most highest
again, and said: O' Lord, Lord, of every wood of the earth and all the trees
thereof, thou hast chosen the one only vineyard: and of all the lands of the
whole world thou hast chosen the one pit: and of all the flowers of the ground
thou hast chosen the one lily: and of all the depths of the sea thou hast filled
the one river: and of all the builded cities thou hast hallowed Sion unto thy
self: and of all the fowls that are created, thou hast named the one dove: and
of all the cattle that are made thou hast provided the one sheep: and among all
the multitudes of flocks thou hast gotten the one people, and unto this people
whom thou lovest, thou gavest the law, that is proved of all.
And now, O' Lord, why hast thou given this
one people over unto many? And upon the one root thou hast prepared other, and
why hast thou scattered thy one only people among many? which tread them down,
yee which have ever withstand thy promises, and never believed thy commandments?
And though thou werest enemy unto thy people, yet shouldest thou punish them
with thine own hands. Now when I had spoke these words, the angel that came to
me the night before, was sent unto me, and said unto me : Hear me, and harken
unto the things that I say, and I shall tell thee more. And I said: Speak on my
Lord. Then said he unto me: Thou art sore vexed and troubled for Israels sake.
Lovest thou the people better than him that made thee? And I said: No Lord, but
of very grief and compassion have I spoken. For my reigns pain me every hour,
because I would have experience of the way of the most highest, and to seek out
part of his judgement. And he said unto me: that thou mayest not. And I said:
wherefore Lord? Where unto was I born then? Or why was not my mothers childbed
then my grave? So I had not seen the misery and trouble of Jacob, and the
travail of my people of Israel.
And he said unto me: Number me the things
that are not yet come : gather me together the drops, that are scattered abroad:
make me the flowers green again, that are withered: open me the thing that is
closed: and bring me forth the winds, that are shut up: Show me the image of a
voice, and then I shall declare the thing, that thou laborest to know. And I
said: O' Lord, Lord, who may know these things, but he that hath not his
dwelling with men? As for me I am unwise: how may I then speak of these things
whereof thou asketh me? Then said he unto me: like as thou can do none of these
things that I have spoken of, even so canest thou not find out my judgement, or
in the end the love that I have promised unto my people. And I said: Behold O'
Lord, yet art thou near unto them that have no end: and what shall they do that
have been before me, or we that be now, or they that should come after us ? And
he said unto me: I will liken my judgement unto a ring. Like as there is no
slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first. So I answered
and said: couldest thou not make those ( that have been made, and that be now,
and that are for to come ) in one, that thou might show thy judgement the
sooner? Then answered he me, and said: The creature may not hasten above the
maker, nether may the world hold them at once, that shall be created.
And I said: Now hast thou said unto thy
servant, that thou living maker hast made the creature living at once, and the
creature bear it? even so might it now also bear them that be present, at once.
And he said unto me: Ask the childbed of a woman, and say unto her: If thou
bringest forth children, why doest thou not together, but one after another?
Pray her therefore, to bring forth ten children at once. And I said: she can
not, but must do it one after the other.
Then said he unto me: Even so have I given a
childbed unto the earth, for those that be sown upon it by process of time. For
like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged,
even so have I ordered the world which I have made.
And I asked and said: Seeing thou hast now
given me the way, I will speak before thee: for our mother whom thou hast told
me, is yet young, and now she draweth near unto age. He answered, me and said:
Ask a woman that beareth children, and she shall tell thee. Say unto her:
wherefore are not they ( whom thou hast now brought forth) like those that were
before thee, but less of stature? And she shall answer thee: They that were born
in the youth of strength, are of one fashion : and they that are born in the
time of age ( when the childbed faileth) are otherwise. Consider now thyself,
how that yee are less of stature, then those that were before you, and so are
they that come after you, less then you, as the creatures that now begin to be
old, and have passed over the strength of youth. Then said I: Lord I beseech
thee, if I have found favor in thy sight, show thy servant, by whom doest thou
visit thy creature?
Item another: A city is builded and set upon
a broad field, and is full of all goods: the entrance is narrow and sodden, like
as there were a fire at the right hand, and a deep water at the left, and as it
were only one straight path betwixt them both, so small that there could be but
one man go there.
If this city were now given to an Liar and
he never went through the perilous way, how would he receive his inheritance?
And I said: It is so Lord. Then said he: Even so is Israel also a portion. And
why? for their sakes I have made the world: And when Adam transgressed my
statutes, then was the thing judged that was done. Then were the entrances of
the world made narrow, full of sorrow and travail: They are but few and evil,
full of perils and labor. For the entrances of the fore world were wide and
sure, and brought immortal fruit.
If they now which are entered into this
world, may not comprehend these straight and vain things, much less they
comprehend and understand the secrete things: Why disquietest thy self then,
seeing thou art but a corruptible man: And what wouldest thou know, where as
thou art but mortal? And why hast thou not received in thine heart the thing
that is for to come, but that is present?
Then said I: O' Lord, Lord, thou hast
ordered in thy law, that the righteous should inherit these things, but that the
unfaithful and ungodly shall perish. Nevertheless the righteous shall suffer
straight things, and hope for wide: for they that have lived ungodly and
*suffered straight things, shall not see the wide.
And he said unto me: There is no judge above
God, and none that have understanding above the Highest. For there be many that
perish, because they despise the law of God that is set before them. For God
hath given straight commandment to such as come, that they know what they do,
and how they should live: and if they keep this they should not be punished.
Nevertheless they were not obedient unto
him, but spoke against him: and said moreover that there was no God, and that
God regarded it not. His ways they have not known, his law they have despised,
and denied his promises: in his statutes and ordinances they have not been
faithful and steadfast, and have not performed his works.
And therefore Esdras unto the full, plenty:
and to the empty, emptiness. Behold the time shall come, that those tokens which
I have told thee, shall come to pass, and the bride shall appear: and the earth
that is now passeth away, shall be showed: and whosoever is delivered from the
afore said evils, shall see my wonders. For my son Jesus shall be openly
declared, with those that be with him: and they that remain, shall be merry in
four hundred years.
After these same years shall my son Christ
die, and all men that have life, and the world will be turned into the old
silence, seven days, like as in the fore judgements, so that no man shall
remain. And after seven days, the world that yet awaketh not, shall be raised
up, and shall die corrupt. And the earth shall restore those that have slept in
her, and so shall the dust those that dwell in silence, and the secrete places
shall deliver those that be committed unto them. And the most highest shall be
openly declared upon the seat of judgement, and all mystery shall vanish away,
and long suffering shall be gathered together. But the judgement shall continue,
the truth shall remain, and faith shall wax strong, the works shall follow, and
the reward shall be showed, the righteousnesses shall watch, and the
unrighteousnesses shall bear no rule.
Then said I: Abraham prayed first for the
Sodomites, and Moses for the fathers that sinned in the wilderness, and he that
came after him for Israel, in the time of Achas and Samuel: and David for the
destruction, and Solomon for them that came into the Sanctuary, and Oseas for
those that received rain, and for the dead, that he might live: and Ezechias for
the people in the time of Sennacherib: and diverse other in like manner, which
have prayed for many.
Even so now seeing the corrupt is grown up,
and wickedness increased, and the righteous have prayed for the ungodly,
wherefore shall it not be so now also?
He answered me, and said: This present world
is not the end, there remaineth much honor in it, therefore they have prayed for
the weak. But the day of dumb shall be the end of this time, and the beginning
of the immortality for to come, wherein all corruption vanisheth all
voluptuousness is loused and misbelief taken away, righteousness grown, and the
verity spring up. Then shall no man be able to save him that is destroyed, nor
to oppress him that hath gotten the victory. I answered then, and said: This is
my first and last saying: that it had been better, not to have given the earth
unto Adam: or else when it was given him, to keep him that he should not sin.
For what profit is it for men now in this present time to live in heaviness, and
after death to look for punishment? O' thou Adam, what hast thou done? For
though it was thou that sinned, thou art not fallen alone, but we all that come
of thee. For what profit is it unto us, if there be promised us immortal time,
where as we meddle with deadly works? And that there is promised us an
everlasting hope, where as we ourselves are evil and vain? And that there are
laid up for us dwellings of health and freedom, where as we have lived evil? and
that the worship of the Highest is kept to defend them, which have led a patient
life, where as we have walked in the most wicked ways of all? And that there
shall be showed a paradise, whose fruit endureth forever, wherein is freedom and
medicine, where as we shall not go in? for we have walked in unpleasant places:
And that the faces of them which have abstained, shall shine above the stars,
where as our faces shall be black and dark? For while we lived and died
unrighteously, we considered not, that we should suffer therefore after death!
Then answered he me, and said: This is the
consideration and thought of the battle, which man hath upon the earth: That if
he be overcome, he shall suffer as thou hast said. But if he get victory, he
shall receive the thing that I say. For this is the life, whereof Moses spake
unto the people, while he lived, saying: Choose the life, that thou mayest live.
Nevertheless they believed him not neither the Prophets after him. No nor me
which have spoken unto them, that heaviness should not reach unto them to their
destruction like a joy is for to come over those, that have suffered themselves
to be informed in salvation.
I answered then and said: I know Lord, that
the Highest is merciful, in that he hath mercy upon them, which are not yet in
the world, and upon those also that walk in his law: and that he is patient and
long suffering toward those that have sinned in their works: and that he is
liberal to give where as it requireth: and that he is of great mercy, for he
multiplies his loving kindness toward those that are present, and that are past,
and to them which are for to come. For if he multiplied not his mercies, the
world shall not be made living, with those that dwell therein: He giveth also,
for if he gave not of his goodness, that they which have done evil, might be
eased, the ten thousand part of men should not be living. And if the judge
forgave not those that be healed with his word, and if he would destroy the
multitude that striveth, there should be very few left in an innumerable
multitude
Behold I send you forth as sheep among
wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and innocent as doves. Beware of men,
for they shall deliver you up to the councils, and shall scourge you in their
synagogues. And ye shall be brought to the head rulers and kings for my sake, in
witness to them and to the Gentiles.
But when they deliver you up, take no
thought how or what ye shall speak, for it shall be given you, even in that same
hour, what ye shall say. For it is not ye that speak, but the spirit of your
father which speaketh in you. The brother shall betray the brother to death, and
the father the son. And the children shall arise against their fathers and
mothers, and shall put them to death: and ye shall be hated of all men for my
name. But he that endureth to the end, shall be saved.
When they persecute you in one city, fly
into another. I tell you for a truth, ye shall not finish all the cities of
Israel, till the son of man be come. The disciple is not above his master: nor
yet the servant above his Lord. It is enough for the disciple to be as his
master is, and that the servant be as his Lord is. If they have called the Lord
of the house Beelzebub: how much more shall they call them of his household so?
Fear them not therefore. There is no thing so close, that shall not be opened,
and no thing so hid, that shall not be known.
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye
in light. And what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye on the house tops.
And fear ye not them which kill the body,
and be not able to kill the soul. But rather fear him, which is able to destroy
both soul and body into hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And none
of them doth light on the ground, without your father. And now are all the hairs
of your heads numbered. Fear ye not therefore: ye are of more value than many
sparrows.
Whosoever therefore shall knowledge me
before men, him will I knowledge also before my father which is in heaven. But
whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my father which
is in heaven.
Think not, that I am come to send peace into
the earth. I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at
variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the
daughter in law against her mother in law: And a mans foes shall be they of his
own household.
He that loveth his father, or mother more
than me, is not meet for me. And he that loveth his son, or daughter more than
me, is not meet for me. And he that taketh not his cross and followeth me, is
not meet for me. He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that loseth his
life for my sake, shall find it.
He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and he
that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me. He that receiveth a Prophet in
the name of a Prophet, shall receive a Prophets reward. And he that receiveth a
righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive the reward of a
righteous man. And whosoever shall give unto one of these little ones to drink,
a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple: I tell you of a truth, he
shall not lose his reward
And he said unto the disciples: The days
will come, when ye shall desire to see one day of the son of man, and ye shall
not see it. And they shall say to you: See here, See there. Go not after them,
nor follow them, for as the lightning that appeareth out of the one part of the
heaven: and shineth unto the other part of heaven. So shall the son of man be in
his days. But first must he suffer many things, and be refused of this nation.
As it happened in the time of Noe: So
shall it be in the time of the son of man. They ate, they drank, they married
wives and were married, even unto the same day that Noe went into the Ark: and
the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise also, as it chanced in the days
of Lot. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built. And
even the same day that Lot went out of *Zodom, it rained fire and brimstone
from heaven, and destroyed them all. After these examples, shall it be in the
day when the son of man shall appear.
At that day he that is on the house top and
his stuff in the house: let him not come down to take it out. And likewise let
not him that is in the fields, turn back again to that he left behind. Remember
Lots wife. Whosoever will go about to save his life, shall lose it: And
whosoever shall lose his life, shall save it. I tell you in that night, there
shall be two in one bed, that one shall be received and the other shall be
forsaken. Two shall be also a grinding together: the one shall be received, and
the other forsaken. And they answered, and said unto him: where Lord? And he
said unto them: wheresoever the body shall be, thither
will the eagles resort.
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