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Now understand I the things that are laid up in the latter days, which shall happen unto them, and to those that are left behind.
Therefore are they come into great perils and many necessities, like as these dreams declare.
Yet is it easier for him that is in danger to come into these things, than to pass away as a cloud out of the world, and not to see the things that happen in the last days. And he answered unto me, and said,
The interpretation of the vision shall I shew thee, and I will open unto thee the thing that thou hast required.
The same is he whom God the Highest hath kept a great season, which by his own self shall deliver his creature: and he shall order them that are left behind.
And whereas thou sawest, that out of his mouth there came as a blast of wind, and fire, and storm;
And he shall come to the astonishment of them that dwell on the earth.
And one shall undertake to fight against another, one city against another, one place against another, one people against another, and one realm against another.
And the time shall be when these things shall come to pass, and the signs shall happen which I shewed thee before, and then shall my Son be declared, whom thou sawest as a man ascending.
And when all the people hear his voice, every man shall in their own land leave the battle they have one against another.
And an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together, as thou sawest them, willing to come, and to overcome him by fighting.
And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable multitude unto him;
Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land.
But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt,
And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow places of the river.
For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed over.
For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth.
Then dwelt they there until the latter time; and now when they shall begin to come,
And then shall he shew them great wonders.
And he said unto me, Like as thou canst neither seek out nor know the things that are in the deep of the sea: even so can no man upon earth see my Son, or those that be with him, but in the day time.
This is the interpretation of the dream which thou sawest, and whereby thou only art here lightened.
Thy life hast thou ordered in wisdom, and hast called understanding thy mother.
And therefore have I shewed thee the treasures of the Highest: after other three days I will speak other things unto thee, and declare unto thee mighty and wondrous things.
Then went I forth into the field, giving praise and thanks greatly unto the most High because of his wonders which he did in time;
And because he governeth the same, and such things as fall in their seasons: and there I sat three days.
And I said, Here am I, Lord And I stood up upon my feet.
And I sent him and led my people out of Egypt, and brought him up to the mount of where I held him by me a long season,
And told him many wondrous things, and shewed him the secrets of the times, and the end; and commanded him, saying,
These words shalt thou declare, and these shalt thou hide.
And now I say unto thee,
That thou lay up in thy heart the signs that I have shewed, and the dreams that thou hast seen, and the interpretations which thou hast heard:
For thou shalt be taken away from all, and from henceforth thou shalt remain with my Son, and with such as be like thee, until the times be ended.
For the world hath lost his youth, and the times begin to wax old.
For the world is divided into twelve parts, and the ten parts of it are gone already, and half of a tenth part:
And there remaineth that which is after the half of the tenth part.
Now therefore set thine house in order, and reprove thy people, comfort such of them as be in trouble, and now renounce corruption,
For the time is fled far away, and leasing is hard at hand: for now hasteth the vision to come, which thou hast seen.
Then answered I before thee, and said,
Behold, Lord, I will go, as thou hast commanded me, and reprove the people which are present: but they that shall be born afterward, who shall admonish them? thus the world is set in darkness, and they that dwell therein are without light.
But if I have found grace before thee, send the Holy Ghost into me, and I shall write all that hath been done in the world since the beginning, which were written in thy law, that men may find thy path, and that they which will live in the latter days may live.
And he answered me, saying, Go thy way, gather the people together, and say unto them, that they seek thee not for forty days.
But look thou prepare thee many box trees, and take with thee Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ecanus, and Asiel, these five which are ready to write swiftly;
Then went I forth, as he commanded, and gathered all the people together, and said,
And received the law of life, which they kept not, which ye also have transgressed after them.
Then was the land, even the land of Sion, parted among you by lot: but your fathers, and ye yourselves, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Highest commanded you.
And forasmuch as he is a righteous judge, he took from you in time the thing that he had given you.
And now are ye here, and your brethren among you.
Therefore if so be that ye will subdue your own understanding, and reform your hearts, ye shall be kept alive and after death ye shall obtain mercy.
For after death shall the judgment come, when we shall live again: and then shall the names of the righteous be manifest, and the works of the ungodly shall be declared.
So I took the five men, as he commanded me, and we went into the field, and remained there.
And the next day, behold, a voice called me, saying, Esdras, open thy mouth, and drink that I give thee to drink.
Then opened I my mouth, and, behold, he reached me a full cup, which was full as it were with water, but the colour of it was like fire.
And my mouth was opened, and shut no more.
The Highest gave understanding unto the five men, and they wrote the wonderful visions of the night that were told, which they knew not: and they sat forty days, and they wrote in the day, and at night they ate bread.
As for me. I spake in the day, and I held not my tongue by night.
In forty days they wrote two hundred and four books.
And it came to pass, when the forty days were filled, that the Highest spake, saying, The first that thou hast written publish openly, that the worthy and unworthy may read it:
For in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the stream of knowledge.
And I did so.
And cause them to be written in paper: for they are faithful and true.
Behold, saith the Lord, I will bring plagues upon the world; the sword, famine, death, and destruction.
And therefore, saith the Lord, I will surely avenge them, and receive unto me all the innocent blood from among them.
But I will bring them with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm, and smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all the land thereof.
They that till the ground shall mourn: for their seeds shall fail through the blasting and hail, and with a fearful constellation.
Woe to the world and them that dwell therein!
For the sword and their destruction draweth nigh, and one people shall stand up and fight against another, and swords in their hands.
A man shall desire to go into a city, and shall not be able.
For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the houses shall be destroyed, and men shall be afraid.
A man shall have no pity upon his neighbour, but shall destroy their houses with the sword, and spoil their goods, because of the lack of bread, and for great tribulation.
Behold, saith God, I will call together all the kings of the earth to reverence me, which are from the rising of the sun, from the south, from the east, and Libanus; to turn themselves one against another, and repay the things that they have done to them.
Like as they do yet this day unto my chosen, so will I do also, and recompense in their bosom. Thus saith the Lord God;
My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword shall not cease over them that shed innocent blood upon the earth.
The fire is gone forth from his wrath, and hath consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners, like the straw that is kindled.
Woe to them that sin, and keep not my commandments! saith the Lord.
For the Lord knoweth all them that sin against him, and therefore delivereth he them unto death and destruction.
For now are the plagues come upon the whole earth and ye shall remain in them: for God shall not deliver you, because ye have sinned against him.
Behold an horrible vision, and the appearance thereof from the east:
Also the Carmanians raging in wrath shall go forth as the wild boars of the wood, and with great power shall they come, and join battle with them, and shall waste a portion of the land of the Assyrians.
And then shall the dragons have the upper hand, remembering their nature; and if they shall turn themselves, conspiring together in great power to persecute them,
Behold clouds from the east and from the north unto the south, and they are very horrible to look upon, full of wrath and storm.