Chapter 21: Myth—Everybody Gets To Go

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Myth—Everybody Gets To Go

But think of your own case, and inquire concerning the glory of those who are like yourself, because it is for you that Paradise is opened, the tree

of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, plenty is provided, a city is built, rest is appointed, goodness is established and wisdom perfected beforehand. The root of evil is sealed up from you, illness is banished from you, and death is hidden; Hades has fled and corruption has been forgotten;

sorrows have passed away, and in the end the treasure of immortality is made manifest. Therefore do not ask any more questions about the great number of those who perish. For when they had opportunity to choose, they despised the Most High, and were contemptuous of His law, and

abandoned His ways. Moreover, they have even trampled on his righteous ones, and said in their hearts that there is no God—though they knew well that they must die. For just as the things that I have predicted await you, so the thirst and torment that are prepared await them. For the Most High did not intend that anyone should be destroyed; but those who were created have

themselves defiled the name of Him who made them, and have been ungrateful to Him who prepared life for them now. Therefore My judgment is now drawing near; I have not shown this to all people, but only to you and a few like you.”

Then I [Ezra] answered and said, “O Lord, You have already shown me a great number of the signs that You will do in the last times, but You have not shown me when You will do them.”

Signs Of End Times!

[God] answered me and said, “Measure carefully in your mind, and when you see that some of the predicted signs have occurred, then you will know that it is the very time when the Most High is about to visit the world that He has made. So when there shall appear in the world earthquakes,

tumult of peoples, intrigues of nations, wavering of leaders, confusion of princes, then you will know that it was of these that the Most High spoke from the days that were of old, from the beginning. For just as with everything that has occurred in the world, the beginning is evident, and the

end manifest; so also are the times of the Most High: the beginnings are manifest in wonders and mighty works, and the end in penalties and in signs.