2 Esdras chapter 13:1-58
Scriptures about Armageddon
Read Revelation chapter 16 for more understanding
Which is essentially the main idea of this chapter.
And also Joel 3:2,12
2 Esdras 13:1-58
[1]And it came to pass after seven days, I dreamed a dream / vision by night:
Who's dream? - Esdras aka Ezra
Ezra lived around the time of Artaxerxes, King of Persia same time also wih Nehemiah, zerubbabel and jeshua who rebuilt the temple.
Precepts : Ezra 7:1-5, 2 Esdras 1:1, Nehemiah 8:1-9
[2]And, lo, there arose a wind / a man from the sea, that it moved all the waves thereof.
2 Esdras 13:25, 51, 52.
[3]And I beheld, and, lo, that man waxed strong with the thousands of heaven: and when he turned his countenance to look, all the things trembled that were seen under him.
Countenance = Face
[4]And whensoever the voice went out of his mouth, all they burned that heard his voice, like as the earth faileth when it feeleth the fire.
[5]And after this I beheld, and, lo, there was gathered together a multitude of men, out of number, from the four winds of the heaven, to subdue the man that came out of the sea
Four Winds = East, West, North, South.
Multitude men = The Nations
Man = My Son
[6]But I beheld, and, lo, he had graved himself a great mountain, and flew up upon it.
Mountain = Kingdom / Hill - 2 Esdras 14:31, 2 Esdras 13:35-36
[7]But I would have seen the region or place whereout the hill was graven, and I could not. (He could not see the place.)
[8]And after this I beheld, and, lo, all they which were gathered together to subdue him were sore afraid, and yet durst fight.
Beheld = Looked
Gather = The Multitude
Durst = Dare
[9]And, lo, as he saw the violence of the multitude that came, he neither lifted up his hand, nor held sword, nor any instrument of war: (No weapon)
[10]But only I saw that he sent out of his mouth as it had been a blast of fire, and out of his lips a flaming breath, and out of his tongue he cast out sparks and tempests.
Blast of fire = Fire
Flaming Breath = Wind
Sparks / Tempests = The Storm
He sent out = The Rushing
Precepts : 2 Esdras 13:27-28
[11]And they were all mixed together; the blast of fire, the flaming breath, and the great tempest; and fell with violence upon the multitude which was prepared to fight, and burned them up every one, so that upon a sudden of an innumerable multitude nothing was to be perceived, but only dust and smell of smoke: when I saw this I was afraid. (So he annihilated them.)
Sudden = occurring or done quickly and unexpectedly or without warning.[12]Afterward saw I the same man come down from the mountain, and call unto him another peaceable Multitude.
Mountain = Kingdom / Sihon
Peaceable Multitude = Ten Tribes
[13]And there came much people unto him, whereof some were glad, some were sorry, and some of them were bound, and other some brought of them that were offered: then was I sick through great fear, and I awaked, and said,
(Ezra Prayed)
[14]Thou hast shewed thy servant these wonders from the beginning, and hast counted me worthy that thou shouldest receive my prayer:
Wonders = Signs
Beginning = Start
[15]Shew me now yet the interpretation of this dream.
[16]For as I conceive in mine understanding, woe unto them that shall be left in those days and much more woe unto them that are not left behind!
[17]For they that were not left were in heaviness.
Precept : 2 Esdras 13:13
[18]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.
[19]Therefore are they come into great perils and many necessities, like as these dreams declare.
Perils = Danger / Risk
[20]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,
[21]The interpretation of the vision shall I shew thee, and I will open unto thee the thing that thou hast required.
Vision = Dream
[22]Whereas thou hast spoken of them that are left behind, this is the interpretation: (Only the left behind)
[23]He that shall endure the peril in that time hath kept himself: they that be fallen into danger are such as have works, and faith toward the Almighty.
Endure = Go through
Peril = Danger / Hazard
[24]Know this therefore, that they which be left behind are more blessed than they that be dead.
[25]This is the meaning of the vision: Whereas thou sawest a man coming up from the midst of the sea:
Dream = Vision
Precept : 2 Esdras 14:2
[26]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.
Great Season = Revelation 20:3
Deliver = Redeem
Creature = Revelation 16:13, 16, Joel 3:2
Left Behind = Revelation 20:7-8
[27]And whereas thou sawest, that out of his mouth there came as a blast of wind, and fire, and storm;
Precept : Esdras 13:10
[28]And that he held neither sword, nor any instrument of war, but that the rushing in of him destroyed the whole multitude that came to subdue him; this is the interpretation:
[29]Behold, the days come, when the most High will begin to deliver them that are upon the earth.
Deliver = Save / Redeem
[30]And he shall come to the astonishment of them that dwell on the earth.
Astonishment = Surprise
[31]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.
Matthew 24:6-7
Precept : Mark 13:7-8 (The Beginning of Sorrow)
[32]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.
Acts 1:9
[33]And when all the people hear his voice, every man shall in their own land leave the battle they have one against another.
[34]And an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together, as thou sawest them, willing to come, and to overcome him by fighting.
Armageddon
Revelation 16:12-16
[12]And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
[13]And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
[14]For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
[15]Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
[16]And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
[35]But he shall stand upon the top of the mount Sion.
Mount Sion = Mountain / Hill In Canaan
[36]And Sion shall come, and shall be shewed to all men, being prepared and builded, like as thou sawest the hill graven without hands.
[37]And this my Son shall rebuke the wicked inventions of those nations, which for their wicked life are fallen into the tempest;
Rebuke = Criticize / Disapprove
Into the tempest (2 Esdras 14:27)
[38]And shall lay before them their evil thoughts, and the torments wherewith they shall begin to be tormented, which are like unto a flame: and he shall destroy them without labour by the law which is like unto me.
Labour = Work
[39]And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable multitude unto him;
Peaceable Multitude (2 Esdras 13:12)
[40]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.
Ten Tribes = Gad, Ephraim, Zebulon, Issachar, Manassah, Levi, Asher, Dan, Naphtail, Simeon (Which is Samaria)
Osea = Hosea (2 Kings 17:1)
Assyria = Babylon = Persians (2 Kings 18:11)
The Waters = Euphrates (Ezra 4:1-2)
Final Remarks
(So are you sure, you're in captivity? How can you just leave?)
[41]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,
Counsel among themselves = They made their decision on their own.
Heathen = Medes
[42]That they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land. (The Israelites did in fact keep the laws up to a point, so what do you mean “never”?)
[43]And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow places of the river.
Narrow = Small
[44]For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed over.
[45]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.
So they traveled through Arsareth, one and a half years.
[46]Then dwelt they there until the latter time; and now when they shall begin to come,
Dwelt = Stayed
Where did they stay?
Arsareth.
[47]The Highest shall stay the springs of the stream again, that they may go through: therefore sawest thou the multitude with peace.
Stayed = Stopped
Now the ten tribes returned by crossing the rivers which TMH stopped in the time after Salmansar had taken them captive.
[48]But those that be left behind of thy people are they that are found within my borders.
[49]Now when he destroyeth the multitude of the nations that are gathered together, he shall defend his people that remain.
[50]And then shall he shew them great wonders.
(Ezra asked TMH a question)
[51]Then said I, O Lord that bearest rule, shew me this: Wherefore have I seen the man coming up from the midst of the sea?
Wherefore = Why?
Midst = Middle
[52]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.
[53]This is the interpretation of the dream which thou sawest, and whereby thou only art here lightened.
Dream = Vision
Lightened = Made to know or understand
[54]For thou hast forsaken thine own way, and applied thy diligence unto my law, and sought it.
Thine = Your
Sought = Look for / Seek
[55]Thy life hast thou ordered in wisdom, and hast called understanding thy mother.
[56]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.
[57]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;
[58]And because he governeth the same, and such things as fall in their seasons: and there I sat three days.
Summary :
So this is saying, that Ezra had a vision or dream of the last days, that TMH's son would come to deliver or to save his people but the other nations would come to join with him in battle in a place called Armageddon /Valley of Jehosophat where he destroys them, then calls his people; namely the captivity, which the King of Assriya / Babylon / Persia took over the sea, Euphrates to his land in Iran at that time.
I honestly don't know how these ten tribes could have possibly escaped captivity to go to a land where nobody was nor do I know the place Arsareth mentioned in this passage, cause there is not enough evidence to back up this particular part of this story, we can conclude that it was fabricated and does not aline with the entire passage.
Point to note : It's says only ten tribes would come to be saved when all tribes except Dan were numbered in Revelation 7: 4-9
This study will continue to be updated once more information is found.
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