Introduction
Introduction to Chazon Eliyahu (The Apocalypse of Elijah)
Narrative Framework and Textual Scope
This eschatological volume preserves the complete visionary text and warning framework of Chazon Eliyahu (The Apocalypse of Elijah), a critical prophetic disclosure set within a distinct Hebraic Messianic Nazarene structural template. The document traces the unfolding architecture of the final days, conveying a direct divine mandate to the prophet regarding the ultimate sorting of the righteous and the lawless. In keeping with the strict textual priorities of the Ivri Heritage Bible series, this edition renders the text using original bilingual technical vocabulary, consistently restoring the divine Name Yahuah alongside Elohim (God), Torah (the Law), and HaMashiach (the Messiah). The structural flow of the work moves rapidly from an intense moral rebuke of compounded ancestral sins to a highly specific roadmap of global geopolitics, culminating in the appearance of an earthbound counterfeit leader and the final, corrective arrival of the true Messiah.
Key Thematic Movements
The visionary landscape and instructional developments of Chazon Eliyahu unfold across five primary movements:
1. The Call to Pure Fasting and Single-Minded Prayer (Chapter 1)
The book opens with a direct query from Yahuah, rebuking the people for adding sin to sin and provoking the Master Elohim who fashioned them. The text exposes the destructive agency of the devil, who attempts to choke out natural resources and block the sun out of a desire to consume mankind like fire in dry stubble. In response, the Elohim of glory executes a hidden plan of mercy, sending His Son into the world in human likeness without notifying heavenly principalities or archangels. Yahuah promises to explicitly write His name upon the foreheads of those who obey Him and seal their right hands, granting them an angelic escort past the heavenly thrones to the divine city, immune to hunger, thirst, or the authority of the son of lawlessness. The prophet delivers a sharp warning against deceivers who set aside the Torah and invent false doctrines to satisfy their bellies, declaring that a pure fast—undertaken with unpolluted hands and a clean heart—is a divinely constructed weapon that releases sin, heals diseases, and drives out demonic entities. Double-mindedness in prayer is condemned as interior darkness, and the faithful are commanded to maintain a single-minded focus on the Master at all times.
2. Geopolitical Disturbances and False Peace (Chapter 2)
The narrative shifts into a detailed prophetic timeline, tracking intense geopolitical upheavals in Egypt and the surrounding regions. A lawless "king of injustice" rises in the north (Assyria), sparking widespread conflict, taking children captive, and driving populations to seek death in vain. This northern tyrant is subsequently neutralized by a "king of peace" rising out of the west, who runs upon the sea like a roaring lion and temporarily establishes a deceptive, superficial security in Egypt. This western king claims that the name of Yahuah is one, honoring the places of the saints and offering empty gifts to the house of Elohim, while secretly cataloging the wealth of pagan shrines and weighing heathen idols. Following his assassination by his own son, a period of severe persecution and societal collapse begins. Nursing mothers are bound and forced to suckle venomous serpents to poison military arrows, young lads under twelve are seized for archer training, and markets become completely silent and dusty. The section terminates with Persian rulers capturing the Jahudim (Jews) in Egypt and returning them to Jerusalem, providing a final warning to the priesthood to tear their clothes when they hear rumors of structural security, as the son of perdition is imminent.
3. The Son of Lawlessness and Mimicked Signs (Chapter 3)
The third segment outlines the precise anatomical and operational parameters of the false leader. Arriving in the fourth year of the Persian king, the son of lawlessness presents himself to the public, claiming to be HaMashiach. He executes nearly all the supernatural signs previously performed by the true prophets: commanding the sun to fall or darken, turning the moon into blood, walking upon rivers and seas as dry land, cleansing lepers, casting out demons, and making the blind, deaf, and lame whole. Crucially, the text exposes his absolute boundary of power: he is entirely unable to give life or raise the dead, establishing this structural deficiency as the primary metric for true spiritual discernment. The text provides explicit physical markers to identify this counterfeit: he is described as a skinny-legged young lad with a bald head featuring a tuft of gray hair at the front, large eyebrows reaching to his ears, and a leprous bare spot on the front of his hands. Though he possesses the capacity to alter his appearance from youth to old age, the distinctive anomalies of his head remain unchangeable.
4. Holy Conflict and the Martyrdom of the Witnesses (Chapter 4)
The text chronicles the courageous, localized resistance led by three distinct witnesses who publicly confront the desecration of the holy place:
* Tabitha the Virgin: Clothed in fine linen, she pursues the lawless one into Judea and scolds him openly; though he sucks her blood in the evening and casts her upon the temple, she rises at dawn to declare his ultimate powerlessness over her body and soul. * Elijah and Enoch: Hearing of the desecration, they descend to fight the shameless one in the marketplace of the great city, exposing his fall from heaven like a morning star. They are killed and left dead in the public square for three and a half days, but rise on the fourth day to scold him again before ascending to heaven in full view of the world.
Following his humiliation by the witnesses, the son of lawlessness unleashes a wave of terror against the remaining saints and priests, extracting their skin and nails and blinding them with iron spikes. Those who flee to the desert are received in spirit by the Master as their flesh petrifies until the final judgment. The chapter closes as sixty righteous ones, girded with the breastplate of the Name, rush to Jerusalem to confront the tyrant over his inability to raise the dead, before being lifted up and burned alive upon his altars.
5. Cosmic Portents, Millennial Reign, and New Creation (Chapter 5)
The final movement details the ultimate intervention of the true Messiah. As the deceived masses realize they have been manipulated by the devil and face a catastrophic global famine, the true HaMashiach dispatches sixty-four thousand six-winged angels to gather those bearing the divine seal upon their foreheads and hands. Led by Gabriel and Uriel as a pillar of light, the sealed are transported safely into the holy land to eat from the tree of life. The earth falls into severe cosmic convulsions: the sun darkens, the seas dry up, and the son of lawlessness flies out after the saints on fiery wings, only to be engaged by the angelic hosts in a massive battle of swords. Yahuah rains down a consuming fire that prevails seventy-two cubits over the earth, burning out the wicked like stubble and initiating the true judgment. Elijah and Enoch descend to shed their earthly flesh for spiritual bodies, seizing the son of lawlessness, who dissolves in their presence like ice before a flame. The lawless ones are cast into the bottom of the closed abyss, and HaMashiach comes forth from heaven alongside His saints to burn the defiled earth, establishing a new heaven and a new earth free from demonic activity, where He rules and communes with His people for a glorious thousand-year millennial reign.
Comparative Manuscript Value
For textual researchers tracking ancient canonical boundaries and pseudepigraphal traditions, this rendering of Chazon Eliyahu offers an invaluable text-critical data resource. By explicitly retaining its Hebraic framework and preserving early distinct variants—such as the exact physical description of the lawless one and the structural emphasis on pure fasting as a functional cosmic defense mechanism—this edition bridges the gap between late Second-Temple Hebraic Jewish apocalypticism and early Nazarene eschatology. It stands as an essential control text for investigating how early Judeo-Christian networks mapped out the lineage of the end times.
Chapter 1
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The word of Yahuah came to me saying, "Son of man, say to his people, 'why do you add sin to your sins and anger the Master Elohim (Lord God) who created you ?' "
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Don't love the world or the things which are in the world, for the boasting of the world and its destruction belongs to the devil.
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Remember that the Master (Lord) of glory, Who created everything, had mercy upon you so that He might save us from the captivity of this age.
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For many times the devil desired not to let the sun rise above the earth and not to let the earth yield fruit, since he desires to consume men like a fire which rages in stubble, and he desires to swallow them like water.
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Therefore, on account of this, the Elohim of glory had mercy upon us, and He sent His Son to the world so that He might save us from the captivity.
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He did not inform an angel or an archangel or any principality when He was about to come to us, but, He changed Himself to be like a man when He was about to come to us so that He might save us [from flesh].
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Therefore become sons to Him since He is a father to you.
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Remember that He has prepared thrones and crowns for you in heaven, saying, "Everyone who will obey Me will receive thrones and crowns among those who are Mine."
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The Master said, "I will write My name upon their forehead and I will seal their right hand, and they will not hunger or thirst.
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Neither will the son of lawlessness prevail over them, nor will the thrones hinder them, but they will walk with the angels up to My city."
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Now as for the sinners, they will be shamed and they will not pass by the thrones, but the thrones of death will seize them and rule over them because the angels will not agree with them.
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They have alienated themselves from His dwellings.
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Hear, O wise men of the land, concerning the deceivers who will multiply in the last times so that they will set down for themselves doctrines which do not belong to Elohim, setting aside the Torah (Law) of Elohim, those who have made their belly their Elohim, saying, "The fast does not exist, nor did Elohim create it," making themselves strangers to the covenant of Elohim and robbing themselves of the glorious promises.
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Now these are not ever correctly established in the firm faith. Therefore, don't let those people lead you astray.
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Remember that from the time when He created the heavens, the Master created the fast for a benefit to men on account of the passions and desires which fight against you so that the evil will not inflame you.
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"But it is a pure fast which, I have created," said the Master.
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The one who fasts continually will not sin, although jealousy and strife are within him.
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Let the pure one fast, but whenever the one who fasts is not pure he has angered the Master and also the angels.
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And he has grieved his soul, gathering up wrath for himself for the day of wrath.
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But a pure fast is what I created, with a pure heart and pure hands.
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It releases sin. It heals diseases. It casts out demons.
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It is effective up to the throne of Elohim for an ointment and for a release from sin by means of a pure prayer.
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Who among you , if he is honored in his craft, will go forth to the field without a tool in his hand? Or who will go forth to the battle to fight without a breastplate on?
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If he is found, will he not be killed because he despised the service of the king?
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Likewise, no one is able to enter the holy place if he is double minded.
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The one who is double minded in his prayer is darkness to himself. And even the angels do not trust him.
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Therefore be single-minded in the Master at all times so that you might know every moment.
Chapter 2
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Furthermore, concerning the kings of Assyria and the dissolution of the heaven and the earth and the things beneath the earth.
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"Now therefore <those who are Mine> will not be overcome" says the Master, "nor will they fear in the battle."
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When they see [a king] who rises in the north, [who will be called] "the king of [Assyria" and] "the king of injustice," [he will increase] his battles and his disturbances against Egypt.
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The land will groan together because your children will be seized.
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Many will desire death in those days, but death will flee from them.
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And a king who will be called "the king of peace" will rise up in the west.
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He will run upon the sea like a roaring lion.
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He will kill the king of injustice, and he will take vengeance on Egypt with battles and much bloodshed.
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It will come to pass in those days that he will command a p[eace] and a [vain] gift in Egypt.
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[He will give] peace to these who are holy, [saying], "The name of [Yahuah] is one."
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[He will] give honors to the [saints and] an exalting to the places of the saints.
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He will give vain gifts to the house of Elohim.
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He will wander around in the cities of Egypt with guile, without their knowing.
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He will take count of the holy places. He will weigh the idols of the heathen. He will take count of their wealth. He will establish priests for them.
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He will command that the wise men and the great ones of the people be seized, and they will be brought to the metropolis, which is by the sea, saying, "There is but one language."
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But when you hear, "Peace and joy exist," I will...
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Now I will tell you his signs so that you might know him.
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For he has two sons: one on his right and one on his left.
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The one on his right will receive a demonic face, (and) he will fight against the name of Elohim.
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Now four kings will descend from that king.
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In his thirtieth year he will come up to Memphis, (and) he will build a temple in Memphis.
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On that day his own son will rise up against him and kill him.
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The whole land will be disturbed.
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On that day he will issue an order over the whole land so that the priests of the land and all of the saints will be seized, saying, "You will repay doubly every gift and all of the good things which my father gave to you."
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He will shut up the holy places. He will take their houses. He will take their sons prisoner.
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He will order and sacrifices and abominations and bitter evils will be done in the land.
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He will appear before the sun and the moon.
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On that day the priests of the land will tear their clothes.
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Woe to you , O rulers of Egypt, in those days because your day has passed.
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The violence (being done to) the poor will turn against you, and your children will be seized as plunder.
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In those days the cities of Egypt will groan for the voice of the one who sells and the one who buys will not be heard. The markets of the cities of Egypt will become dusty.
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Those who are in Egypt will weep together. They will desire death, (but) death will flee and leave them.
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In those days, they will run up to the rocks and leap off, saying, "Fall upon us." And still they will not die.
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A double affliction will multiply upon the whole land.
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In those days, the king will command, and all the nursing women will be seized and brought to him bound. They will suckle serpents. And their blood will be drawn from their breasts, and it will be applied as poison to the arrows.
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On account of their distress of the cities, he will command again, and all the young lads from twelve years and under will be seized and presented in order to teach them to shoot arrows.
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The midwife who is upon the earth will grieve. The woman who has given birth will lift her eyes to heaven, saying, "Why did I sit upon the birthstool, to bring forth a son to the earth?"
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The barren woman and the virgin will rejoice, saying, "It is our time to rejoice, because we have no child upon the earth, but our children are in heaven."
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In those days, three kings will arise among the Persians, and they will take captive the Jahudim (Jews) who are in Egypt. They will bring them to Jerusalem, and the will inhabit it and dwell there.
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Then when you hear that there is security in Jerusalem, tear you garments, O priests of the land, because the son of perdition will soon come.
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In those days, the lawless one will appear in the holy places ---
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In (those) days the kings of the Persians will hasten and they will stand to fight with the kings of Assyria. Four kings will fight with three.
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They will spend three years in that place until they carry off the wealth of the temple which is in that place.
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In those days, blood will flow from Kos to Memphis. The river of Egypt will become blood, and they will not be able to drink from it for three days.
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Woe to Egypt and those who are in it.
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In those days, a king will arise in the city which is called "the city of the sun," and the whole land will be disturbed. <He will> flee to Memphis (with the Persians).
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In the sixth year, the Persian kings will plot an ambush in Memphis. They will kill the Assyrian king.
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The Persians will take vengeance on the land, and they will command to kill all the heathen and the lawless ones. They will command to build the temples of the saints.
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They will give double gifts to the house of Elohim. They will say, "The name of Elohim is one."
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The whole land will hail the Persians.
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Even the remnant, who did not die under the afflictions, will say, "The Lord has sent us a righteous king so that the land will not become a desert"
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He will command that no royal matter be presented for three years and six months. The land will be full of good in an abundant well-being.
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Those who are alive will go to those who are dead, saying, "Rise up and be with us in this rest."
Chapter 3
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In the fourth year of that king, the son of lawlessness will appear, saying, "I am HaMashiach," although he is not. Don't believe him!
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When the HaMashiach comes, He will come in the manner of a covey of doves with the crown of doves surrounding Him. He will walk upon the heaven's vaults with the sign of the cross leading Him.
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The whole world will behold Him like the sun which shines from the eastern horizon to the western.
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This is how He will come, with all his angels surrounding Him.
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But the son of lawlessness will begin to stand again in the holy places.
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He will say to the sun, "Fall," and it will fall. He will say, "Shine," and it will do it. He will say, "Darken," and it will do it.
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He will say to the moon, "Become bloody," and it will do it.
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He will go forth with them from the sky. He will walk upon the sea and the rivers as upon dry land.
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He will cause the lame to walk. He will cause the deaf to hear. He will cause the dumb to speak. He will cause the blind to see.
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The lepers he will cleanse. The ill he will heal. The demons he will cast out.
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He will multiply his signs and his wonders in the presence of everyone.
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He will do the works which the HaMashiach did, except for raising the dead alone.
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In this you will know that he is the son of lawlessness, because he is unable to give life.
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For behold, I will tell you his signs so that you might know him.
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He is a ...of a skinny-legged young lad, having a tuft of gray hair at the front of his bald head. His eyebrows will reach to his ears. There is a leprous bare spot on the front of his hands.
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He will transform himself in the presence of those who see him. He will become a young child. He will become old.
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He will transform himself in every sign. But the signs of his head will not be able to change.
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Therein you will know that he is the son of lawlessness.
Chapter 4
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The virgin, whose name is Tabitha, will hear that the shameless one has revealed himself in the holy places. And she will put on her garment of fine linen.
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And she will pursue him up to Judea, scolding him up to Jerusalem, saying, "O shameless one, O son of lawlessness, O you who have been hostile to all the saints.
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Then the shameless one will be angry at the virgin. He will pursue her up to the regions of the sunset. He will suck her blood in the evening.
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And he will cast her upon the temple, and she will become a healing for the people.
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She will rise up at dawn. And she will live and scold him, saying, "o shameless one, you have no power against my soul or my body, because I live in the Lord always.
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And also my blood which you have cast upon the temple has become a healing for the people."
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Then when Elijah and Enoch hear that the shameless one has revealed himself in the holy place, they will come down and fight with him saying,
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Are you indeed not ashamed? When you attach yourself to the saints, because you are always estranged.
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You have been hostile to those who belong to heaven. You have acted against those belonging to the earth.
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You have been hostile to the thrones. You have acted against the angels. you are always a stranger.
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You have fallen from heaven like the morning stars. You were changed, and your tribe became dark for you.
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But you are not ashamed, when you stand firmly against Elohim you are a devil.
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The shameless one will hear and he will be angry, and he will fight with them in the market place of the great city. And he will spend seven days fighting with them.
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And they will spend three and one half days in the market place dead, while all the people see them.
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But on the fourth day they will rise up and they will scold him saying. "O shameless one, O son of lawlessness. Are you indeed not ashamed of yourself since you are leading astray the people of Elohim for whom you did not suffer? Do you not know that we live in the Master?"
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As the words were spoken, they prevailed over him, saying, "Furthermore, we will lay down before the flesh for the spirit, and we will kill you since you are unable to speak on that day because we are always strong in the Master. But you are always hostile to Elohim.
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The shameless one will hear, and he will be angry and fight them.
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And the whole city will surround them.
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On that day they will shout up to heaven as they shine while all the people and all the world see them.
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The son of lawlessness will not prevail over them. He will be angry at the land, and he will seek to sin against the people.
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He will pursue all of the saints. They and the priests of the land will be brought back bound.
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He will kill them and destroy them. And their eyes will be removed with iron spikes.
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He will remove their skin from their heads. He will remove their nails one by one. He will command that vinegar and lime be put in their nose.
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Now those who are unable to bear up under the tortures of that king will take gold and flee over the fords to the desert places. They will lie down as one who sleeps.
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The Master will receive their spirits and their souls to Himself.
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Their flesh will petrify. No wild animals will eat them until the last day of the great judgment.
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And they will rise up and find a place of rest. but they will not be in the kingdom of the Christ as those who have endured because the Lord said, "I will grant to them that they sit on my right hand."
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They will receive favor over others, and they will triumph over the son of lawlessness. And they will witness the dissolution of heaven and earth.
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They will receive the thrones of glory and the crowns.
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The sixty righteous ones who are prepared for this hour will hear.
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And they will gird on the breastplate of YHWH, and they will run to Jerusalem and fight with the shameless one, saying, "All powers which the prophets have done from the beginning you have done. But you were unable to raise the dead because you have no power to give life. Therein we have known that you are the son of lawlessness."
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He will hear, and he will be angry and command to kindle altars.
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And the righteous ones will be bound. They will be lifted up and burned.
Chapter 5
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And on that day the heart of many will harden and they will flee from him, saying, "This is not the HaMashiach. The HaMashiach does not kill the righteous. He does not pursue men so that he might seek them, but He persuades them with signs and wonders."
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On that day HaMashiach will pity those who are His own. And He will send from heaven his sixty-four thousand angels, each of whom has six wings.
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The sound will move heaven and earth when they give praise and glorify.
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Now those upon whose forehead the name of HaMashiach is written and upon whose hand is the seal both the small and the great, will be taken up upon their wings and lifted up before his wrath.
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Then Gabriel and Uriel will become a pillar of light leading them into the holy land.
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It will be granted to them to eat from the tree of life. They will wear white garments...and angels will watch over them. They will not thirst, nor will the son of lawlessness be able to prevail over them.
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And on that day the earth will be disturbed, and the sun will darken, and peace will be removed from the earth.
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The birds will fall on the earth, dead.
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The earth will be dry. The waters of the sea will dry up.
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The sinners will groan upon the earth, saying, "What have you done to us, O son of lawlessness, saying I am HaMashiach, when you are the devil?
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You are unable to save yourself so that you might save us. You produced signs in our presence until you alienated us from HaMashiach, who created us. Woe to us because we listened to you.
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Lo, now we will die in a famine. Where indeed is now the trace of a righteous one, and we will worship him, or where indeed is the one who will teach us, and we will appeal to him.
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Now indeed we will be wrathfully destroyed because we disobeyed YHWH.
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We went to the deep places of the sea, and we did not find water. We dug in the rivers and papyrus reeds, and we did not find water."
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Then on that day, the shameless one will speak, saying, "Woe to me because my time has passed by for me while I was saying that my time would not pass by for me.
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My years became months, and my days have passed away as dust passes away. Now therefore I will perish together with you.
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Now therefore run forth to the desert. Seize the robbers and kill them.
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Bring up the saints. For because of them, the earth yields fruit; for because of them, the sun shines upon the earth. For because of them the dew will come upon the earth."
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The sinners will weep saying, "You made us hostile to YHWH. If you are able, rise up and pursue them."
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Then he will take his fiery wings and fly out after the saints. He will fight with them again.
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The angels will hear and come down. They will fight with him a battle of many swords.
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It will come to pass on that day that the Master will hear and command the heaven and the earth with great wrath. And they will send for fire.
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And the fire will prevail over the earth seventy-two cubits. It will consume the sinners and the devils like stubble.
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A true judgment will occur.
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On that day, the mountains and the earth will utter speech. The byways will speak with one another, saying, "Have you heard today the voice of a man who walks who has not come to the judgment of the Son of YHWH."
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The sins of each one will stand against him in the place where they were committed, whether those of the day or of the night.
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Those who belong to the righteous and ... will see the sinners and those who persecuted them and those who handed them over to death in their torments.
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Then the sinners [in torment] will see the place of the righteous.
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And thus grace will occur. In those days, that which the righteous will ask for many times will be given to them.
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On that day, YHWH will judge the heaven and the earth. He will judge those who transgressed in heaven, and those who did so on earth.
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He will judge the shepherds of the people. He will ask about the flock of sheep, and they will be given to Him, without any deadly guile existing in them.
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After these things, Elijah and Enoch will come down. They will lay down the flesh of the world, and they will receive their spiritual flesh. They will pursue the son of lawlessness and kill him since he is not able to speak.
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On that day, he will dissolve in their presence like ice which was dissolved by a fire. He will perish like a serpent, which has no breath in it.
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They will say to him, "Your time has passed by for you. Now therefore you want those who believe you will perish."
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They will be cast into the bottom of the abyss and it will be closed for them.
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On that day, HaMashiach, the King, and all His saints will come forth from heaven.
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He will burn the earth. He will spend a thousand years upon it.
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Because the sinners prevailed over it, He will create a new heaven and a new earth. No deadly devil will exist in them.
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He will rule with His saints, ascending and descending, while they are always with the angels and they are with HaMashiach for a thousand years.