In the text that you never hear about, the 'Apocalypse of Zephaniah' there are some lovely passages and I will redeem the best. The text that we are sharing here was translated by James H. Charlesworth.
It describes souls surviving death and it includes the book of life, the book of records were all deeds are kept and this is a different way of explaining karma e.g. the measure that you give is the measure that you receive. It is the measure of the spiritual law and in the New Testament, Christ explained that the measure returns to you 30, 60 or 100 fold.
This text must have been important to the early Christians because the renowned St Clement of Alexandria quoted from the book. St Clement was the highly respected teacher of Origen.
The scene in the fifth heaven.
1. And a spirit took me and brought me up into the fifth heaven. And I saw angels who are called “lords.” And the diadem was set upon them in the Holy Spirit, and the throne of each of them was sevenfold more (brilliant) than the light of the rising sun. (And they were dwelling in the temples of salvation and singing hymns to the ineffable God.)
So as you can see there is more than one lord.
2. "Darkness existeth not in that place where the righteous and the saints are, but rather they always exist in the light.”
Why is there no darkness where the righteous and saints are? True saints are healers as were the Apostles of Christ and the Jewish Prophets.
3. The Book of Life - Recording Angels
"They write down all the good deeds of the righteous upon their scrolls as they watch at the gate of heaven.” And I take them from their hands and bring them up before the Lord Almighty; He writeth their name in the Book of the Living."
4. The Ungodly Angels that carry off Ungodly Men.
The ungodly are described as having faces like Leopards and they have tusks that are outside of their mouths like wild boars. Their hair is loose like the hair of women. As we know the Leopard is also mentioned in the book of Daniel and Rev chapter 13.
5. The First Trumpet - The first trumpet: Triumph and visitation of the righteous.
Second Trumpet - Opening of heaven and souls in torment. Then there is intercession from the saints for those in torment.
Then there is another trumpet that indicates the retribution of the earth and rest of the pages relating appears to be missing on the first link provided to you.
However, we have another link from the 'Early Jewish Writing's website.
"The remaining twelve Sahidic pages contain predictions about the King in the West, who shall kill the King of Wantonness. Despite appearances to the contrary he is the Son of Lawlessness. The Virgin struggles against this imposter and is joined by sixty just ones who show that the Son of Lawlessness is not the Anointed One. The Anointed One eventually sends angels from heaven. The text ends with an apocalyptic vision of the judgment and the end of the earth."
So once again we have the Son of Lawlessness, and here he is called the King of the West, he is mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrolls as the usurper of the holy one sent from God. In this text it speaks of the Leopards and that the Leopard also relates to the biblical passages mentioned above. In the book of Daniel the Leopard is the third beast, and I have always said that it is Obama because people in the USA were hailing him the Messiah before and after his election as president of the USA.
So then who is the King of Wantonness is it the 4th beast? Is it Gadaffi?
In the book of 2 Thessalonians, the man of lawlessness is revealed when the rebellion occurs and he is doomed to destruction. As we know people are rebelling all over the world.
ELIAKIM
2. http://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/apoczephaniah.html
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