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I will give your houses to a people that will come, who without having heard me will believe. Those to whom I have shown no signs will do what I have commanded.
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I call to witness the gratitude of the people that is to come, whose children rejoice with gladness; though they do not see me with bodily eyes, yet with the spirit they will believe the things I have said.
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Pause and be quiet, my people, because your rest will come.
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Do not be anxious, for when the day of tribulation and anguish comes, others shall weep and be sorrowful, but you shall rejoice and have abundance.
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Embrace your children until I come, and proclaim mercy to them; because my springs run over, and my grace will not fail.”
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Therefore I say to you, O nations that hear and understand, “Await your shepherd; he will give you everlasting rest, because he who will come at the end of the age is close at hand.
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and said to him, “It would be better for us not to be here than to come here and live in ungodliness, and to suffer and not understand why.”
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and said, ‘Come, let us go and make war against the sea, that it may recede before us, and that we may make for ourselves more forests.’
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And in like manner the waves of the sea also made a plan and said, ‘Come, let us go up and subdue the forest of the plain so that there also we may gain more territory for ourselves.’
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For the evil about which you ask me has been sown, but the harvest of it has not yet come.
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If therefore that which has been sown is not reaped, and if the place where the evil has been sown does not pass away, the field where the good has been sown will not come.
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For a grain of evil seed was sown in Adam’s heart from the beginning, and how much ungodliness it has produced until now, and will produce until the time of threshing comes!
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When Will the New Age Come?
Then I answered and said, “How long and when will these things be? Why are our years few and evil?”
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Did not the souls of the righteous in their chambers ask about these matters, saying, ‘How long are we to remain here? And when will come the harvest of our reward?’
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show me this also: whether more time is to come than has passed, or whether for us the greater part has gone by.
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For I know what has gone by, but I do not know what is to come.”
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But the angel who had come and talked with me held me and strengthened me and set me on my feet.
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Then I said to him, “Depart from me and do not come near me for seven days, and then you may come to me.” He heard what I said and left me.
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Response to Ezra’s Complaints
When I had spoken these words, the angel who had come to me on a previous night was sent to me,
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He said to me, “Count up for me those who have not yet come, and gather for me the scattered raindrops, and make the withered flowers bloom again for me;
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Why Successive Generations Have Been Created
And I said, “Yet behold, O Lord, thou dost have charge of those who are alive at the end, but what will those do who were before us, or we, or those who come after us?”
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When and How Will the End Come?
Then I inquired and said, “Since thou hast now given me the opportunity, let me speak before thee. Is our mother, of whom thou hast told me, still young? Or is she now approaching old age?”
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and those who come after you will be smaller than you, as born of a creation which already is aging and passing the strength of youth.”
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then I planned these things, and they were made through me and not through another, just as the end shall come through me and not through another.”
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And he said to me, “I have come to show you these things this night.
