Gems from the Apocrypha
In my recent posting about the Apocrypha I have gotten some interesting
emails. One person said that they had read the Apocrypha and did not
find anything of value in it. Another asked if there are any Messianic
Prophecies in the Apocrypha. In reply I would like to post these
prophetic gems from the Apocrypha:
The suffering servant Messiah in Wisdom of Solomon:
12: Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education.
13: He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord.
14: He was made to reprove our thoughts.
15: He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like other men's, his ways are of another fashion.
16: We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: he pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father.
17: Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him.
18: For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies.
19: Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness, and prove his patience.
20: Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected.
21: Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them.
22: As for the mysteries of God, they knew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward for blameless souls.
(Wisdom of Solomon 2:12-22 - KJV)
Messiah as the incarnate Torah in Baruch and Wisdom:
35: This is our God, and there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of him
36: He hath found out all the way of knowledge, and hath given it unto Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved.
37: Afterward did he shew himself upon earth, and conversed with men.
1: This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endureth for ever: all they that keep it shall come to life; but such as leave it shall die.
2: Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated.
(Baruch 3:35-4:1 – KJV)
14: For while all things were in quiet silence, and that night was in the midst of her swift course,
15: Thine Almighty word leaped down from heaven out of thy royal throne, as a fierce man of war into the midst of a land of destruction,
(Wisdom of Solomon 18:14-15 - KJV)
A prophecy of a last days restoration and return to the Sacred Name in Baruch:
28: As thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou didst command him to write the law before the children of Israel, saying,
29: If ye will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them.
30: For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves.
31: And shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give them an heart, and ears to hear:
32: And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name,
33: And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.
34: And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished.
35: And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more drive my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them.
(Baruch 2:28-35 – KJV)
Restoration of the Ten Lost Tribes in the Last Days in 2Esdras:
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.
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,
42: That they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land.
43: And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow places of the river.
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.
46: Then dwelt they there until the latter time; and now when they shall begin to come,
47: The Highest shall stay the springs of the stream again, that they may go through: therefore sawest thou the multitude with peace.
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.
(2Esdras 13:40-50 – KJV)
The suffering servant Messiah in Wisdom of Solomon:
12: Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education.
13: He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord.
14: He was made to reprove our thoughts.
15: He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like other men's, his ways are of another fashion.
16: We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: he pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father.
17: Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him.
18: For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies.
19: Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness, and prove his patience.
20: Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected.
21: Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them.
22: As for the mysteries of God, they knew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward for blameless souls.
(Wisdom of Solomon 2:12-22 - KJV)
Messiah as the incarnate Torah in Baruch and Wisdom:
35: This is our God, and there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of him
36: He hath found out all the way of knowledge, and hath given it unto Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved.
37: Afterward did he shew himself upon earth, and conversed with men.
1: This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endureth for ever: all they that keep it shall come to life; but such as leave it shall die.
2: Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated.
(Baruch 3:35-4:1 – KJV)
14: For while all things were in quiet silence, and that night was in the midst of her swift course,
15: Thine Almighty word leaped down from heaven out of thy royal throne, as a fierce man of war into the midst of a land of destruction,
(Wisdom of Solomon 18:14-15 - KJV)
A prophecy of a last days restoration and return to the Sacred Name in Baruch:
28: As thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou didst command him to write the law before the children of Israel, saying,
29: If ye will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them.
30: For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves.
31: And shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give them an heart, and ears to hear:
32: And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name,
33: And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.
34: And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished.
35: And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more drive my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them.
(Baruch 2:28-35 – KJV)
Restoration of the Ten Lost Tribes in the Last Days in 2Esdras:
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.
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,
42: That they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land.
43: And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow places of the river.
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.
46: Then dwelt they there until the latter time; and now when they shall begin to come,
47: The Highest shall stay the springs of the stream again, that they may go through: therefore sawest thou the multitude with peace.
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.
(2Esdras 13:40-50 – KJV)
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