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2 Esdras 7:27-43 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

27. Everyone who survives the calamities I have predicted will also see the wonderful things I will do.

28. My son the Messiah will be revealed, together with those who come with him. He will bring 400 years of happiness to all these survivors.

29. At the end of that time, my son the Messiah and all human beings will die.

30. Then the world will return to its original silence, and for seven days it will be like it was at the beginning. No one will be left alive.

31. After seven days this corrupt age will pass out of existence and a new age will be awakened.

32. The ground will give up the dead who sleep there in silence, and the souls of the dead will be released from the places where they have been kept.

33. God Most High will appear on his judgement seat. Mercy and patience will vanish completely

34. and be replaced by judgement. Truth and faithfulness will once again stand firm.

35. The good and bad that people have done will be fully revealed, and reward and punishment will follow immediately.

36. The pit of torment, the fires of hell, will appear, and opposite them the Paradise of joy and rest.

37. “Then God Most High will say to the nations that have been raised from the dead, ‘Look! I am the one whom you have denied and refused to serve; it is my commands that you have rejected.

38. Look around you; there is joy and peace in one direction, fire and torment in the other.’ That is what he will say to them on Judgement Day.

39. “On Judgement Day there will be no sun, moon, or stars;

40. no cloud, thunder, or lightning; no wind, water, or air; no darkness, evening, or morning;

41. no summer, spring, or winter; no heat, frost, or cold; no hail, rain, or dew;

42. no noon, night or dawn; no daylight, brightness, or light. The only light will be the dazzling brightness of God Most High, making it possible for everyone to see.

43. The judgement will last seven years.

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