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Our Bible has come down to us through various stages. Although it was believed that the the scriptures were passed down by memorization alone, we now know that even from the beginning, the scriptures were recorded in writing.
The Angel of the Presence, according to Jubilees 1:27 and 29 [Note: Jubilees passes the test for inspired scripture. See below] recorded the history from the beginning:
Jubilees 1:27, 29
27 And He said to the Angel of the Presence: “Write for Moses from the beginning of creation till My sanctuary has been built among them for all eternity.
29 And the Angel of the Presence who went before the camp of Israel took the tables of the divisions of the years — from the time of the creation — of the law and of the testimony of the weeks, of the jubilees, according to the individual years, according to all the number of the jubilees [according to the individual years], from the day of the [new] creation †when† the heavens and the earth shall be renewed and all their creation according to the powers of the heaven, and according to all the creation of the earth, until the sanctuary of the Lord shall be made in Jerusalem on Mount Zion, and all the luminaries be renewed for healing and for peace and for blessing for all the elect of Israel, and that thus it may be from that day and unto all the days of the earth.
The scripture scrolls were kept by the Temple Priests who were from Aaron’s line and the Tribe of Levi and the Sons of Zadok. They copied them over when they began to deteriorate under strict control so that no mistakes were allowed in them. Copies with mistakes were destroyed.
However, the Pharisees during the Second Temple Period did not recognize all of the scriptures, including the Book of Jubilees and I Enoch. [reference needed here]
The Septuagint
The need for this work can be explained by the need to have the Old Testament in Greek. It has provided us with documentation beyond the temple scrolls that we otherwise might not have had at our disposal, and, although it doesn’t have the authority of inspiration as do the temple scrolls that were protected by the Temple Priests. This Greek translation of the scriptures (Old Testament) is sometimes referred to as LXX. Here’s how it came about:
Alexander the Great had a Greek General named Ptolemy I. His son was Ptolemy II Philadephus was Pharoah of Egypt 284 – 246 B.C. This pharoah requested that 72 Hebrews — six from each of the twelve tribes of Israel — translate from memory the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) into Greek. As the story goes (as told in a letter from Aristeas to his brother and repeated in other ancient documents such as those by Philo of Alexandria and Josephus), Ptolemy II had the 72 Hebrews write out the Torah from memory while separated from each other in isolated rooms. Miraculously they all produced identical translations.
There are problems with this story. For one, only the Temple Priests were given the authority by God through Moses to write out the scriptures. Another thing is that all of the 12 tribes were no longer around as the 10 tribes of the Northern Kingdom had been taken into captivity to Assyria about 500 years before. Lastly, since the Temple Priests were still in charge of the scripture scrolls, why were they not asked to do the translation? I suppose they might not have had a good grasp of Greek, but if there were 72 Hebrews who did speak Greek, then the Temple Priests probably did, too.
Torah — The Books of Moses: the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. It is clear today from a study of Jubilees and the Dead Sea Scrolls, that The Book of Jubilees was written by Moses and thus should be included in the Torah. This would make the name of “Pentateuch” invalid, being 6 books instead of 5. The Pharisees may have adopted that name to clearly exclude Jubilees which was widely read and known by the early church and church writers in the years to come.
The Tanakh — The Tanakh, or Miqra, is the Hebrew Bible which consists of the Torah, the Nevi’im, and the Katuvim (the Books of Moses, the Prophets, and the Writings.)
The Talmud — See the Ancient Documents tab. It is the rabbinic writings which debate how the law should be followed and other philosophical and interpretive discussions for Hebrews and Jews.
The Masoretic Text — See the Ancient Documents tab. This refers to the Hebrew Bible (both today and from early days) and is the basis for some English Bible translations of the Old Testament from Hebrew and Aramaic, specifically the King James Version, the English Standard Version, the New International Version, the New American Standard Bible and some Catholic Bibles. The earliest complete document of the Masoretic Text that we have found is the Leningrad Codex from the 11th century.
The Councils — The various councils determined what would be included in our biblical canon — that is, what is accepted as genuine.
The Roman Catholic Church
The King James Version
The Lutheran Version
The Book of Jubilees — passes the test for inspired scripture
Authorship:
— written by Moses — Jubilees Prologue: “This is the history of the division of the days of the law and of the testimony, of the events of the years, of their (year) weeks, of their jubilees throughout all the years of the world, as the Lord spake to Moses on Mount Sinai when he went up to receive the tables of the law and of the commandment, according to the voice of God as he said unto him, ‘Go up to the top of the Mount.’”
Jubilees 1: 4, 5 And Moses was on the Mount forty days and forty nights, and God taught him the earlier and the later history of the division of all the days of the law and of the testimony. 5 And He said: “Incline thine heart to every word which I shall speak to thee on this Mount, and write them in a book in order that their generations may see…
— Jubilees is Torah (since it was written by Moses) —
Testimony of scripture:
— Moses wrote it with help from angels — Acts 7:53 “you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.” [KJ: “delivered by the disposition of angels.”] (Luke is the writer here.)
— Genesis 48:22 “Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow.”
Here Moses refers to the war with the Amorites found in Jubilees 34: 5-8 “And they announced this to Jacob saying: “Behold, the kings of the Amorites have surrounded thy sons, and plundered their herds.” And he arose from his house, he and his three sons and all the servants of his father, and his own servants, and he went against them with six thousand men, who carried swords. And he slew them in the pastures of Shechem and pursued those who fled, and he slew them with the edge of the sword… v.8 And he prevailed over them, and imposed tribute on them that they should pay him tribute…”
— Jesus held Jubilees to be Torah: John 5:46-47
“For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
— He was speaking to the Pharisees who did believe Moses (the 5 books of the Torah) so Jesus must have been referring to the one book of Torah that they didn’t believe.
— In the Qumran library (which was the library of the Sons of Zadok and John, the Baptist, (the exiled Temple Priests) Jubilees was “one of the best documented texts” and was stored in jars along with Genesis. It was considered a continuation of Genesis.
— Gabriele Boccaccini (in Enoch and Qumran Origins) wrote: “With 14 or 15 attested copies, the Book of Jubilees is undoubtedly one of the best documented texts of the Qumran library moreover. It is cited as an authoritative source in a sectarian work, the Damascus Document (CD16:2-4), and seems to have been equally important to the Qumran community.”
— The Damascus Document (also found in Qumran) says,[4Q266, fr. 8 i, 6-9]
“(For the Lord made) a Covenant with you in all Israel; therefore a man shall bind himself by oath to return to the law of Moses, for in it all things are strictly defined. As for the exact determination of their times to which Israel turns a blind eye, behold it is strictly defined in the book of the divisions of the times into their jubilees and weeks.“
This document is not scripture nor inspired but is historical. It references the Book of Jubilees, [also titled The Book of the Divisions of the Times into their Jubilees and Weeks], as defining all things and states that Israel has turned a blind eye to this.
— The Damascus Document quotes Jubilees 23:2 — “No man over the age of 60 shall hold office as Judge of the Congregation for ‘because man sinned his days have been shortened and In the heat of his anger against the inhabitants of the earth God ordained that their understanding should depart even before their days are completed.’ Jubilees 23:2”
— This constitutes a “second witness” for Genesis 6:3 “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”
— The Pharisees did not believe this sixth book of the Torah, which wrote of Jesus: Jubilees 16:26 “and he (Abraham) blessed his Creator who had created him in his generation, for he had created him according to his good pleasure; for He knew and perceived that from him would arise the plant of rghteousness for the eternal generations, and from him a holy seed, so that it should become like Him who made all things.”
— This constitutes a “second witness” for John 1:1,2 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.” [Notice how exact the wording is in John and Jubilees. John did not reveal a new doctrine here. He quoted Jubilees, which was well known to the Israelites, the prophets, the disciples, and the apostles.]
— According to Acts 7:30, Moses lived in Midian 40 years [“Now when 40 years had passed,…” ] but this is never explained in the 5 books of the Torah. It is, however, found in the 6th book of the Torah: Jubilees 48:1-2 “And in the sixth year of the third week of the forty-ninth jubilee thou didst depart and dwell in the land of Midian, five weeks and one year. And thou didst return into Egypt in the second week in the second year in the fiftieth jubilee. And thou thyself knowest what He spake unto thee on Mt. Sinai.” [That’s 42 years until Moses saw the burning bush on Mt. Sinai.]
— A direct quote by Jesus of Jubilees is found in John 14:26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.”
Jubilees 32:25 “And Jacob said, ‘Lord, how can I remember all that I have read and seen?’ And he said unto him: ‘I will bring all things to thy remembrance.’”
— Paul applied a doctrine from Jubilees in 2 Corinthians 5:17 that is not found in the rest of the Old Testament: “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
Jubilees 5:12 “And he made for all his works a new and righteous nature, so that they should not sin in their whole nature for ever, but should be all righteous each in his kind alway.”
— In Galatians 2:15, Paul again quoted Jubilees: “We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles.” (KJ)
Jubilees 23:23 “And He will wake up against them the sinners of the Gentiles…”
— John 17:12 and 2 Thessalonians 2:3 refer to the “son of perdition”, a phrase not found in the Old Testament. But it is found in Jubilees 10:3 “And hast save me and my sons from the waters of the flood, And hast not caused me to perish as Thou didst the sons of perdition.”
— “The friend of God” — used in James 2:23 and in Jubilees 19:9 (referring to Abraham.)
— The concept found in 2 Peter 3:8 “that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” is confirmed in Jubilees 4:30 “And he (Adam) lacked seventy years of one thousand years; for one thousand years are as one day in the testimony of the heavens and therefore was it written concerning the tree of knowledge: ‘On the day that ye eat thereof ye shall die.’ For this reason he did not complete the years of this day; for he died during it.”
Testimony of Logic:
— Dating of Scrolls — It is argued that the Book of Jubilees was written during the Second Temple period, or around 150 B.C. due to the dating of the parchments. However, we know that the Temple Priests copied and re-copied all scripture as they began to deteriorate. Based on the dating of the parchments, we would also have to conclude that other scriptures found in the Dead Sea Scroll caves were written during the Second Temple period. This would include the books of Moses, the prophets, Psalms, etc. But we know they weren’t written that late.
— Burial of Joseph’s bones — In Jubilees 46:9 … and the children of Israel brought forth all the bones of the children of Jacob save the bones of Joseph, and they buried them in the field in the double cave in the mountain.
If Jubilees had been written during the period of the Second Temple, the author would most likely have recorded that Joseph’s bones were buried in Canaan by Joshua after the exodus.
— Place Names — Jubilees 8:13 And it extendeth till it reacheth Kârâsô: this is in the bosom of the tongue which looketh towards the south.
This is an ancient Indus society (Khirasara) that had existed from 2600 B.C. to 2200 B.C. It was not known in the Second Temple Period but was rediscovered in 1976.
Jubilees 8:12 …and it extendeth towards the west till it reacheth the sea of Mâ’ûk — that (sea) into which everything which is not destroyed descendeth.
This is the South Atlantic using the name of Ham’s wife which was lost to history by the Second Temple period. Other examples of place names mentioned in Jubilees that had been lost by the Second Temple period are: ‘Atêl (Indian Ocean), Fara (Alaska), Pharnak (Saudi Arabia).
— Calendar — Jubilees explains a solar calendar. The Pharisees follow a lunar calendar and would have written it into Jubilees had they written the book.
— Talmud — If Jubilees had been written during the Second Temple Period by Pharisees, it would agree more with their interpretation and expansion of the law — the Talmud. But it does not.
— Removed from Canon — If Jubilees had been written by Pharisees, they wouldn’t have removed it from their canon of scriptures.
— Name of God — If Jubilees had been written by Pharisees, they wouldn’t have spelled out God’s name nor used “Lord” in place of YHWH.
— Well known by early Christian writers — while not a proof that Jubilees is inspired scripture, it is evidence that the work was widely read and quoted. [Epiphanius, Justin Martyr, Origen, Diodorus of Tarsus, Isodore of Alexandria, Isodore of Seville, Eutychius of Alexandria, John Malalas, George Syncellus, George Kedrinos.
The Book of I Enoch — passes the test for inspired scripture
Authorship:
— written by Enoch: I Enoch 1:1, 1 “The words of the blessing of Enoch… 2 Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, [which] the angels showed me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I saw…”
— it was given to Enoch via a “heavenly vision … through the word of the holy angesl… learnt from the heavenly tablets.”
I Enoch 93:2 “And concerning the plant of uprightness, I will speak these things. Yea, I Enoch will declare (them) unto you, my sons: According to that which appeared to me in the heavenly vision. And which I have known through the word of the holy angels. And have learnt from the heavenly tablets.”
— Jude gave Enoch credit for this prophecy: Jude 1:14-16 “ And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,…”
Quoted from I Enoch 1:9 “And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of [His] holy ones to execute judgment upon all…”
— Jubilees said Enoch was tasked to record all history: Jubilees 10:17 “…For Enoch’s office was ordained for a testimony to the generations of the world, so that he should recount all the deeds of generation unto generation, till the day of judgment.”
— In Jubilees 21:10 Abraham’s last words to his son, Isaac, regarding eating the meat from offerings refers to writings by his forefathers, including Enoch: “… for thus I have found it written in the books of my forefathers, and in the words of Enoch, and in the words of Noah.”
Testimony of scripture:
— Jude 1:4 “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Quoted from I Enoch 48:10 [referring to the kings of the earth] “on the day of their affliction there shall be rest on the earth, And before them they shall fall and not rise again: And there shall be no one to take them with his hands and raise them: For they have denied the Lord of Spirits and His Anointed.
— Jude 1:6 KJV
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
— Jude 1:14-16 “…Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,…”
Quoted from I Enoch 1:9 “And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of [His] holy ones to execute judgment upon all…” [as stated above]
— Jude 1:15 “To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.…”
quoted from I Enoch 1:9 “…And to destroy [all] the ungodly: And to convict all flesh of all the works [of their ungodliness] which they have ungodly committed, [And of all the hard things which] ungodly sinners [have spoken] against Him.”
— Jude 1:13 “Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.”
— Jesus quoted I Enoch:
— James 1:8 KJV A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
from: 1 Enoch 91:4 And draw not nigh to uprightness with a double heart. And associate not with those of a double heart, But walk in righteousness my sons. And it shall guide you on good paths, And righteousness shall be your companion.
— 2 Peter 3:13 KJV Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
from I Enoch 45:4-5 Then will I cause Mine Elect One to dwell among them. And I will transform the heaven and make it an eternal blessing and light, And I will transform the earth and make it a blessing: And I will cause Mine elect ones to dwell upon it: But the sinners and evil-doers shall not set foot thereon.
Also: I Enoch 72:1 …which Uriel, the holy angel, who was with me, who is their guide, showed men and he showed me all their laws exactly as they are, and how it is with regard to all the years of the world and unto eternity, till the new creation is accomplished which dureth till eternity.
Also: I Enoch 91:16 16 And the first heaven shall depart and pass away. And a new heaven shall appear. And all the powers of the heavens shall give sevenfold light.
— 1 John 2:8 KJV Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
from 1 Enoch 58:5 And after this it shall be said to the holy in heaven that they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the heritage of faith: For it has become bright as the sun upon earth. And the darkness is past.
— 1 John 2:15 KJV Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
from 1 Enoch 108:8 Who love God and loved neither gold nor silver nor any of the good things which are in the world, but gave over their bodies to torture.
also:1 Enoch 48:7 And the wisdom of the Lord of Spirits hath revealed him to the holy and righteous; For he hath preserved the lot of the righteous; Because they have hated and despised this world of unrighteousness, And have hated all its works and ways in the name of the Lord of Spirits: For in his name they are saved, And according to his good pleasure hath it been in regard to their life,
— Revelation quoted I Enoch:
Enoch 86:1 I saw… and behold a star fell from heaven
Revelation 9:1 I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth.
Enoch 90:26 Cast into this fiery abyss.
Revelation 20:15 Cast into the lake of fire.
Enoch 100:3 The horse shall walk up to the breast in the blood of sinners.
Revelation 14:20 Blood came out of the winepress even unto the horses’ bridles.
— Jubilees quotes I Enoch many times:
Testimony of Doctrine
— Doctrine derived from I Enoch [the origin of “wandering stars”] 18:13-16 “I saw there seven stars like great burning mountains, and to me, when I inquired regarding them, 14 The angel said: ‘This place is the end of heaven and earth: this has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven. 15 And the stars which roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord in the beginning of their rising, because they did not come forth at their appointed times. 16 And He was wroth with them, and bound them till the time when their guilt should be consummated (even) for ten thousand years.”
Also I Enoch 21:2-3, 6 And I saw there something horrible: I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible. 3. And there I saw seven stars of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning with fire.
6 These are of the number of the stars of heaven which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord…”
I Enoch 2:1 continues this theme of the order and place of the luminaries: “Observe ye every thing that takes place in the heaven, how they do not change their orbits, [and] the luminaries which are in the heaven, how they all rise and set in order each in its season, and transgress not against their appointed order.”
2 Esdras — passes the test for inspired scripture
The biblical books with “Esdras” in the title were written by the prophet, Ezra (Esdras being the latin). There were four [Ezra, Nehemiah, 1 and 2 Esdras / 1 Ezra: Ezra-Nehemiah / 2 Ezra: 1 Esdras, Ezra 3 / Ezra Sutuel: 2 Esdras, Ezra 4] and they are titled differently (by different groups throughout history. We will present 2 Esdras here, which was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls and was included in the 1611 King James Bible, the 1510 Geneva Bible, the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible, and the Latin Vulgate.
Authorship:
— written by the Prophet Ezra (Latin: Esdras)
— 2 Esdras 1: 1 The second book of the Prophet Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, …
— 2 Esdras 1:4 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 5 Go your way, and show my people their sinful deeds,…
Testimony of Scripture:
— Quoted by Jesus:
Matthew 23:37 “I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings,
2 Esdras 1:30 “I gathered you together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings:”
—
Matthew 23:37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets,”
2 Esdras 1:32 “I sent unto you my servants the Prophets, whom you have taken and slain,”
—
Matthew 23:38 “Behold, your house is left unto you desolate”
2 Esdras 1:33 “Almighty Lord, Your house is desolate,”
—
John 5:28-29 KJV
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; …
2 Esdras 2:16 “And those that be dead will I raise up again from their places, and bring them out of the graves: for I have known my Name in Israel.”
—
Matthew 10:32 KJV “Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.”
Luke 12:8 KJV “Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: …”
2 Esdras 2:47 “So he answered, and said unto me, It is the son of God, whom they have confessed in the world….
Also by Paul and John:
Romans 10:9 KJV “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
Philippians 2:11 KJV “And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to
the glory of God the Father.”
1 John 1:19 KJV “Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.”
—
Matthew 24:8 ESV “All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.”
2nd Esdras 4:42 “For like as a woman that travails, makes haste to escape the necessity of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed unto them.
Also by Paul:
Romans 8:22 KJV “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain
together until now.
—
Matthew 24:12 KJV “Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,
Matthew 24:37 KJV (Luke 17:26) “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
2 Esdras 5:2 “But iniquity shall be increased above that which now you see, or that you have heard long ago.”
—
Matthew 7:13-14 KJV “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
2 Esdras 7:12-14 “Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, full of sorrow and travail: they are but few and evil, full of perils, and very painful. For the entrances of the elder world were wide and sure, and brought immortal fruit. If then they that live, labor not to enter these straight and vain things, they can never receive those that are laid up for them.
—
Matthew 20:16 KJV “So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.”
2 Esdras 8:1, 3 “And he answered me, saying, The Most High hath made this world for many, but the world to come for few. …There be many created, but few shall be saved.
—
Matthew 7:21-23 KJV ״Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then
will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
2 Esdras 9:10 ״For such, as in their life have received benefits, and have not known me:״
—
Matthew 24:7 KJV ״For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.״
2 Esdras 9:2-3 ״Then shall you understand, that it is the very same time, wherein the Highest will begin to visit the world which he made. Therefore when there shall be seen earthquakes and uproars of the people in the world:”
— quoted by Paul
1 Thessalonians 4:14-16 KJV “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:”
1 Corinthians 15:52 KJV “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
2 Esdras 2:16 And those that be dead will I raise up again from their places, and bring them out of the graves: for I have known my Name in Israel.”
Also Luke and John:
Acts 24:15 KJV “And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.”
Revelation 20:13 KJV “And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.”
—
1 Corinthians 15:45 KJV “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual,
but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.”
2 Esdras 3:21 “For the first Adam bearing a wicked heart transgressed, and was overcome; and so be all they that are born of him.”
—
Romans 14:10 KJV “But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.”
2 Corinthians 5:10 KJV “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that
every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
2 Esdras 7:33 “And the Most High shall appear upon the seat of judgment, and
misery shall pass away, and the long suffering shall have an end.”
—
Romans 8:2 KJV “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”
2 Esdras 14:30 “And received the law of life which they kept not, which you also have transgressed after them.”
— quoted by Peter
1 Peter 5:4 “And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.”
2 Esdras 2:43 And in the midst of them there was a young man of a high stature, taller then all the rest, and upon every one of their heads he set crowns, and was more exalted, which I marvelled at greatly.
Also John:
Revelation 2:10 KJV “…and I will give thee a crown of life.”
—
2 Peter 3:9 KJV “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
2 Esdras 8:59 “For as the things aforesaid shall receive you, so thirst and pain are prepared for them; for it was not his will that men should come to nothing.”
— quoted by James
James 2:18-20, 26 KJV “Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
…For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
2 Esdras 9:7-8 “And every one that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape by his works, and by faith, whereby you have believed, Shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation, in my land, and within my borders: for I have sanctified them for me, from the beginning.
— quoted in Revelation
2nd Esdras 2:42
I Ezra saw upon the mount Sion a great people, whom I could not number, and they all praised the Lord with songs.
Revelation 14:1-3 KJV
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, … And they sung as it were a new song before the throne,…
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2nd Esdras 2:16
And those that be dead will I raise up again from their places, and bring them out of the graves: for I have known my Name in Israel.
Revelation 20:13 KJV
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: …
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2 Esdras 2:43
And in the midst of them there was a young man of a high stature, taller then all the rest, and upon every one of their heads he set crowns, and was more exalted, which I marvelled at greatly.
Revelation 2:10 KJV
…and I will give thee a crown of life.
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2nd Esdras 15:44
They shall come to her (Babylon), and besiege her, the star and all wrath shall they power out upon her, then shall the dust and smoke go up unto the heaven: and all they that be about her, shall bewail her.
Revelation 18:8 KJV
Therefore shall her (Babylon) plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning …
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2nd Esdras 13:4, 10-11
And whensoever the voice went out of his mouth, all they burnt, that heard his voice, like as the earth fails when it feels the fire.
…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, 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 burnt 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.
Revelation 19:15 KJV
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Revelation 19:21 KJV
And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.