Thursday, November 22, 2007

end of days

"The Wicked watches for the righteous, seeking to put him to death." - Psalm 37:32
"Its interpretation concerns the Wicked Priest who watched out for the Teacher of Righteousness and sought to put him to death." - lQpHab 11.4
"The Lord will render destructive judgment (on that Wicked Priest) just as he plotted to destroy the Poor." - lQpHab 12.2
Testament of Levi 18:1-14.
End of Days
"And we recognize that some of the blessings and curses which are written in the B[ook of Mo]ses have come to pass, and that this is the End of Days when they will repent in Isra[el] for[ever] and they will not backsli[de]." - Halakhic Letter C20-22
"Here the authors reveal their belief that they are currently living on the verge of the End of Days, a notion that later became normative in Qumran [Judaic] messianic thought. It is also clear that they considered their own age the period foretold by the Bible as the final repentance of Israel." - Lawrence H. Schiffman, "Origin and Early History of the Qumran Sect"
"I shall gather all the nations to Jerusalem for battle. The city will be taken, the horses plundered, the women ravished. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be ejected from the city. Then Yahweh will sally out and fight those nations as once he fought on the day of battle." - Zechariah
"Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming, it is near -- a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness spread upon the mountains a great and powerful army comes; their like has never been from of old, nor will be again after them in ages to come." - Joel

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