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And Belkhira recognized and saw the place of Yeshayahu and the prophets who were with him, for he dwelt in the region of Beit-Lechem, was an adherent of Menasheh, prophesied falsely in Yerushalayim, had many there joined to him, and was a Shomeroni.
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And it came to pass when the king of Ashshur had come and carried the people away captive to the mountains of the Medes and the rivers of Tazon,
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that Belkhira, while still young, escaped and came to Yerushalayim in the days of Chizqiyahu king of Yehudah. Yet he did not walk in the ways of his father of Shomeron, for he feared Chizqiyahu.
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And in the days of Chizqiyahu he was found speaking words of lawlessness in Yerushalayim.
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And the servants of Chizqiyahu accused him, and he escaped to the region of Beit-Lechem.
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And Belkhira accused Yeshayahu and the prophets who were with him, saying: 'Yeshayahu and those with him prophesy against Yerushalayim and against the cities of Yehudah, saying they shall be made desolate; and against the children of Yehudah and Binyamin, saying they shall go into captivity; and also against you, master the king, saying you shall go bound with hooks and iron chains.'
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'But they prophesy falsely against Yisra'el and Yehudah.'
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'And Yeshayahu himself has said: I see more than Mosheh the prophet.'
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'But Mosheh said: No Adam can see Elohim and live; while Yeshayahu has said: I have seen Elohim, and see - I live.'
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'Know therefore, king, that he lies. He has also called Yerushalayim Sedom, and the rulers of Yehudah and Yerushalayim he has called the people of Amorah.' And he brought many accusations against Yeshayahu and the prophets before Menasheh.
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And Beliar dwelt in the heart of Menasheh and in the hearts of the rulers of Yehudah and Binyamin, and of the eunuchs and counselors of the king.
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And the words of Belkhira pleased Menasheh greatly, and he sent and seized Yeshayahu.
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For Beliar was in great wrath against Yeshayahu because of the vision, and because Yeshayahu had exposed Samma'el, and because through him the going forth of the Beloved from the seventh heaven had been made known - His transformation, His descent, and the likeness into which He would be transformed, namely the likeness of Adam; and the persecution with which He would be persecuted, and the torment inflicted upon Him; and the coming of His twelve talmidim, His teaching, and that before Shabbat He would be executed upon a tree together with lawless ishim, and buried in a tomb.
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And the Twelve who were with Him would be shaken because of Him, and watchers would guard the tomb.
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And it was revealed concerning the descent of the messenger of the Assembly which is in the heavens, whom He shall summon in the last days.
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And Gavri'el, messenger of Holy Ruach, and Mikha'el, chief of the set-apart messengers, on the third day shall open the tomb.
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And the Beloved shall come forth and send out His twelve talmidim.
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And they shall teach all the nations and every tongue concerning the resurrection of the Beloved; and those who trust in Him and in His execution shall be delivered, and shall trust in His ascension into the seventh heaven from which He came.
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And many who trust in Him shall speak through Holy Ruach.
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And many signs and wonders shall be accomplished in those days.
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And afterward, near the time of His coming, His talmidim shall abandon the teaching of the Twelve emissaries, their trust, their love, and their purity.
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And there shall be much contention near the time of His coming.
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And in those days many shall love office while being empty of wisdom.
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And there shall be many lawless elders and shepherds dealing falsely with their own sheep; they shall ravage them because they are not set-apart shepherds.
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And many shall exchange the honor of the garments of the set-apart ones for garments of covetousness; and there shall be much partiality in those days and many lovers of the honor of this world.
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And there shall be much slander and self-glory at the coming of the Master, and Holy Ruach shall withdraw from many.
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And in those days there shall not be many prophets, nor many who speak trustworthy words, except one here and another there in scattered places,
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because of the ruach of error, sexual immorality, self-glory, and covetousness which shall be in those who are called servants of that One and in those who receive that One.
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And there shall be great hatred among shepherds and elders toward one another.
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For there shall be great jealousy in the last days, and each shall speak what is pleasing in his own eyes.
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And they shall make ineffective the prophecy of the prophets who were before me, and these visions of mine also they shall make ineffective, so that they may speak according to the impulse of their own hearts.