Sulam Ya’aqov — Chapter 4

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And Sari'el said to me:

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'The ladder you saw is the course of this age.

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'The twelve steps are the twelve appointed periods through which the age moves.

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'The twenty-four forms upon the steps are rulers of the nations, kings who rise in their times, changing their faces as kingdoms change.

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'Under these rulers the children of your children shall be tested.

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'Because lawlessness shall also arise among your own descendants, foreign rulers shall rise against them, and this Place shall be made desolate through appointed descents of judgment.

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'From the wealth of your fathers a sanctuary shall be built for the Name of the Elohim of your fathers.

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'Yet through provocation among your descendants it shall again be laid waste for an appointed period.

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9

'Do not think the ladder speaks only of foreign kingdoms. It also measures the condition of your Seed beneath those kingdoms.'

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'The faces change because dominion changes hands, but the ladder itself remains beneath the rule of El Elyon.'

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