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Jacob’s Last Words to His Sons

49 Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather around, that I may tell you what will happen to you in days to come.(A)

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14 So now, I am going to my people; let me advise you what this people will do to your people in days to come.”(A)

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14 and have come to help you understand what is to happen to your people at the end of days. For there is a further vision for those days.”(A)

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20 The anger of the Lord will not turn back
    until he has executed and accomplished
    the intents of his mind.
In the latter days you will understand it clearly.(A)

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30 In your distress, when all these things have happened to you in time to come, you will return to the Lord your God and heed him.

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The Heavenly Worship

After this I looked, and there in heaven a door stood open! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”(A)

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24 And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.(A)

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In days to come
    the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest of the mountains
    and shall be raised above the hills;
all the nations shall stream to it.(A)

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but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son,[a] whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds.(A)

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  1. 1.2 Or the Son

Godlessness in the Last Days

You must understand this, that in the last days distressing times will come.

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False Asceticism

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later[a] times some will renounce[b] the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,(A)

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  1. 4.1 Or the last
  2. 4.1 Or move away from

17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith, as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live by faith.”[a](A)

The Guilt of Humankind

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those who by their injustice suppress the truth.(B)

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  1. 1.17 Or The one who is righteous through faith will live

17 ‘In the last days it will be, God declares,
that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh,
    and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see visions,
    and your old men shall dream dreams.(A)

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26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah.[a](A)

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  1. 2.26 Or the Lord’s Christ

Peace and Security through Obedience

In days to come
    the mountain of the Lord’s temple
shall be established as the highest of the mountains
    and shall be raised up above the hills.
Peoples shall stream to it,(A)

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Surely the Lord God does nothing
    without revealing his secret
    to his servants the prophets.(A)

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Conflict of Nations and Heavenly Powers

10 In the third year of King Cyrus of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. The word was true, and it concerned a great conflict. He understood the word, having received understanding in the vision.(A)

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47 The king said to Daniel, “Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery!”(A)

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28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has disclosed to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen at the end of days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed were these:(A) 29 To you, O king, as you lay in bed, came thoughts of what would be hereafter, and the revealer of mysteries disclosed to you what is to be.(B)

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53 Who has believed what we have heard?
    And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?(A)

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Days are coming when all that is in your house and that which your ancestors have stored up until this day shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, says the Lord.(A)

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14 The Lord of hosts has revealed himself in my ears:
“Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,”
    says the Lord God of hosts.(A)

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15 saying, “Do not touch my anointed ones;
    do my prophets no harm.”

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14 The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him,
    and he makes his covenant known to them.(A)

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Moses’s Final Blessing on Israel

33 This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the Israelites before his death.(A) He said,

“The Lord came from Sinai
    and dawned from Seir upon us;[a]
    he shone forth from Mount Paran.
With him were myriads of holy ones,[b]
    at his right, a host of his own.[c](B)
Indeed, O favorite among[d] peoples,
    all his holy ones were in your charge;
they marched at your heels,
    accepted direction from you.(C)
Moses charged us with the law
    as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.(D)
There arose a king in Jeshurun
    when the leaders of the people assembled,
    the united tribes of Israel.

May Reuben live and not die out,
    even though his numbers are few.”

And this he said of Judah,

“O Lord, give heed to Judah,
    and bring him to his people;
strengthen his hands for him,[e]
    and be a help against his adversaries.”(E)

And of Levi he said,

“Give to Levi[f] your Thummim
    and your Urim to your loyal one,
whom you tested at Massah,
    with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah,(F)
who said of his father and mother,
    ‘I regard them not’;
he ignored his kin
    and did not acknowledge his children.
For they observed your word
    and kept your covenant.(G)
10 They teach Jacob your ordinances
    and Israel your law;
they place incense before you
    and whole burnt offerings on your altar.(H)
11 Bless, O Lord, his substance,
    and accept the work of his hands;
crush the loins of his adversaries,
    of those who hate him, so that they do not rise again.”(I)

12 Of Benjamin he said,

“The beloved of the Lord rests in safety—
the Most High[g] surrounds him all day long—
    and he rests between his shoulders.”

13 And of Joseph he said,

“Blessed by the Lord be his land,
    with the choice gifts of heaven above
    and of the deep that lies beneath,(J)
14 with the choice fruits of the sun
    and the rich yield of the months,
15 with the finest produce of the ancient mountains
    and the abundance of the everlasting hills,(K)
16 with the choice gifts of the earth and its fullness
    and the favor of the one who dwells on Sinai.[h]
Let these come on the head of Joseph,
    on the brow of the prince among his brothers.(L)
17 A firstborn[i] bull—majesty is his!
    His horns are the horns of a wild ox;
with them he gores the peoples
    all together to the ends of the earth;
such are the myriads of Ephraim,
    such the thousands of Manasseh.”(M)

18 And of Zebulun he said,

“Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out,
    and Issachar, in your tents.(N)
19 They call peoples to the mountain;
    there they offer the right sacrifices,
for they suck the affluence of the seas
    and the hidden treasures of the sand.”(O)

20 And of Gad he said,

“Blessed be the enlargement of Gad!
    Like a lion he lives;
    he tears at arm and scalp.(P)
21 He chose the best for himself,
    for there a commander’s allotment was reserved;
he came at the head of the people;
    he executed the justice of the Lord
    and his ordinances with Israel.”(Q)

22 And of Dan he said,

“Dan is a lion’s whelp
    that leaps forth from Bashan.”(R)

23 And of Naphtali he said,

“O Naphtali, sated with favor,
    full of the blessing of the Lord,
    possess the west and the south.”(S)

24 And of Asher he said,

“Most blessed of sons be Asher;
    may he be the favorite of his brothers,
    and may he dip his foot in oil.(T)
25 Your bars are iron and bronze,
    and as your days, so is your strength.[j](U)

26 There is none like God, O Jeshurun,
    who rides through the heavens to your help,
    majestic through the clouds.(V)
27 He subdues the ancient gods,[k]
    shatters[l] the forces of old;[m]
he drove out the enemy before you
    and said, ‘Destroy!’(W)
28 So Israel lives in safety,
    untroubled is Jacob’s abode[n]
in a land of grain and wine,
    where the heavens drop down dew.(X)
29 Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you,
    a people saved by the Lord,
the shield of your help
    and the sword of your triumph!
Your enemies shall come fawning to you,
    but you shall tread on their backs.”(Y)

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Footnotes

  1. 33.2 Gk Syr Vg Compare Tg: Heb upon them
  2. 33.2 Cn Compare Gk Sam Syr Vg: MT He came from Ribeboth-kodesh,
  3. 33.2 Cn Compare Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  4. 33.3 Or O lover of the
  5. 33.7 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  6. 33.8 Q ms Gk: MT lacks Give to Levi
  7. 33.12 Cn: Heb above him
  8. 33.16 Cn: Heb in the bush
  9. 33.17 Q ms Gk Syr Vg: MT His firstborn
  10. 33.25 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  11. 33.27 Cn: Heb The eternal God is a dwelling place
  12. 33.27 Cn: Heb from underneath
  13. 33.27 Or the everlasting arms
  14. 33.28 Or fountain