Pearls of Azara

[19] I pitied your groanings and gave you manna for food; you ate the bread of malakym (messengers of YHUH). 


[35] I will give your houses to a people that will come, who without having heard Me will believe. Those to whom I have shown no signs will do what I have commanded. 
[36] They have seen no prophets, yet will recall their former state. 
[37] I call to witness the gratitude of the people that is to come, whose children rejoice with gladness; though they do not see Me with bodily eyes, yet with the spirit they will believe the things I have said. 


"Your understanding has utterly failed regarding this world, and do you think you can comprehend the way of YaHUaH?" 
[3] Then I said, "Yes," And he replied to me, "I have been sent to show you three ways, and to put before you three problems. 
[4] If you can solve one of them for me, I also will show you the way you desire to see, and will teach you why the heart is evil." 
[5]
I said, "Speak on,"
And he said to me, "Go, weigh for me the weight of fire, or measure for me a measure of wind, or call back for me the day that is past."
[6]
I answered and said, "Who of those that have been born can do this, that you ask me concerning these things?"
[7]
And he said to me, "If I had asked you, `How many dwellings are in the heart of the sea, or how many streams are at the source of the deep, or how many streams are above the firmament, or which are the exits of the grave, or which are the entrances of paradise?'
[8] Perhaps you would have said to me, `I never went down into the deep, nor as yet into the grave, neither did I ever ascend into heaven.' 
[9] But now I have asked you only about fire and wind and the day, things through which you have passed and without which you cannot exist, and you have given me no answer about them!" 
[10] And he said to me, "You cannot understand the things with which you have grown up; 
[11] how then can your mind comprehend the way of YaHUaH? And how can one who is already worn out by the corrupt world understand incorruption?" When I heard this, I fell on my face .



[46]
He said to me, "Ask a woman's womb, and say to it, `If you bear ten children, why one after another?' Request it therefore to produce ten at one time."
[47]
I said, "Of course it cannot, but only each in its own time."
[48]
He said to me, "Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those who from time to time are sown in it.
[49] For as an infant does not bring forth, and a woman who has become old does not bring forth any longer, so have I organized the world which I created." 
[50]
Then I inquired and said, "Since Thou hast now given me the opportunity, let me speak before Thee. Is our mother, of whom Thou hast told me, still young? Or is she now approaching old age?"
[51]
He replied to me, "Ask a woman who bears children, and she will tell you.
[52] Say to her, "Why are those whom you have borne recently not like those whom you bore before, but smaller in stature?' 
[53] And she herself will answer you, `Those born in the strength of youth are different from those born during the time of old age, when the womb is failing.'
[54] Therefore you also should consider that you and your contemporaries are smaller in stature than those who were before you, 
[55] and those who come after you will be smaller than you, as born of a creation which already is aging and passing the strength of youth." 


[78] Now, concerning death, the teaching is: When the decisive decree has gone forth from YaHUaH that a man shall die, as the spirit leaves the body to return again to him who gave it, first of all it adores the esteem of YaHUaH. 
[79] And if it is one of those who have shown scorn and have not kept the way of YaHUaH, and who have despised His law, and who have hated those who fear YaHUaH -- 
[80] such spirits shall not enter into habitations, but shall immediately wander about in torments, ever grieving and sad, in seven ways. 
[81] The first way, because they have scorned the law of YaHUaH. 
[82] The second way, because they cannot now make a good repentance that they may live. 
[83] The third way, they shall see the reward laid up for those who have trusted the covenants of YaHUaH.
[84] The fourth way, they shall consider the torment laid up for themselves in the last days. 
[85] The fifth way, they shall see how the habitations of the others are guarded by malakym in profound quiet. 
[86] The sixth way, they shall see how some of them will pass over into torments. 
[87] The seventh way, which is worse than all the ways that have been mentioned, because they shall utterly waste away in confusion and be consumed with shame, and shall wither with fear at seeing the esteem of YaHUaH before Whom they sinned while they were alive, and before Whom they are to be judged in the last times. 


[88]
"Now this is the order of those who have kept the ways of YaHUaH, when they shall be separated from their mortal body.
[89] During the time that they lived in it, they laboriously served YaHUaH, and withstood danger every hour, that they might keep the law of the Lawgiver perfectly. 
[90] Therefore this is the teaching concerning them: 
[91] First of all, they shall see with great joy the esteem of Him who receives them, for they shall have rest in seven orders. 
[92] The first order, because they have striven with great effort to overcome the evil thought which was formed with them, that it might not lead them astray from life into death. 
[93] The second order, because they see the perplexity in which the souls of the wicked wander, and the punishment that awaits them. 
[94] The third order, they see the witness which He who formed them bears concerning them, that while they were alive they kept the law which was given them in trust. 
[95] The fourth order, they understand the rest which they now enjoy, being gathered into their chambers and guarded by malakym in profound quiet, and the esteem which awaits them in the last days. 
[96] The fifth order, they rejoice that they have now escaped what is corruptible, and shall inherit what is to come; and besides they see the straits and toil from which they have been delivered, and the spacious freedom which they are to receive and enjoy in immortality. 
[97] The sixth order, when it is shown to them how their face is to shine like the sun, and how they are to be made like the light of the stars, being incorruptible from then on. 
[98] The seventh order, which is greater than all that have been mentioned, because they shall rejoice with boldness, and shall be confident without confusion, and shall be glad without fear, for they hasten to behold the face of Him Whom they served in life and from Whom they are to receive their reward when esteemed. 
[99] This is the order of the spirits of the righteous, as henceforth is announced; and the aforesaid are the ways of torment which those who would not give heed shall suffer hereafter." 
[100]
I answered and said, "Will time therefore be given to the spirits, after they have been separated from the bodies, to see what you have described to me?"
[101]
He said to me, "They shall have freedom for seven days, so that during these seven days they may see the things of which you have been told, and afterwards they shall be gathered in their habitations."


YaHUaH made this world for the sake of many, but the world to come, for the sake of few.


"For just as the farmer sows many seeds upon the ground and plants a multitude of seedlings, and yet not all that have been sown will come up in due season, and not all that were planted will take root; so also those who have been sown in the world will not all be saved."


[63] "Behold, YaHUaH, Thou hast now shown me a multitude of the signs which Thou wilt do in the last times, but Thou hast not shown me when Thou wilt do them." 
Chapter 9
[1]
He answered me and said, "Measure carefully in your mind, and when you see that a certain part of the predicted signs are past,
[2] then you will know that it is the very time when YaHUaH is about to visit the world which He has made. 
[3] So when there shall appear in the world earthquakes, tumult of peoples, intrigues of nations, wavering of leaders, confusion of princes, 
[4] then you will know that it was of these that YaHUaH spoke from the days that were of old, from the beginning. 
[5] For just as with everything that has occurred in the world, the beginning is evident, and the end manifest; 
[6] so also are the times of YaHUaH: the beginnings are manifest in wonders and mighty works, and the end in requital and in signs. 
[7] And it shall be that every one who will be saved and will be able to escape on account of his works, or on account of the faith by which he has believed, 
[8] will survive the dangers that have been predicted, and will see My salvation in My land and within My borders, which I have qadush for Myself from the beginning. 
[9] Then those who have now abused My ways shall be amazed, and those who have rejected them with contempt shall dwell in torments. 
[10] For as many as did not acknowledge Me in their lifetime, although they received My benefits, 
[11] and as many as scorned My law while they still had freedom, and did not understand but despised it while an opportunity of repentance was still open to them, 
[12] these must in torment acknowledge it after death. 
[13] Therefore, do not continue to be curious as to how the wicked will be punished; but inquire how the righteous will be saved, those to whom the age belongs and for whose sake the age was made." 





[18] For there was a time in this age when I was preparing for those who now exist, before the world was made for them to dwell in, and no one opposed Me then, for no one existed; 
[19] but now those who have been created in this world which is supplied both with an unfailing table and an inexhaustible pasture, have become corrupt in their ways. 
[20] So I considered My world, and behold, it was lost, and My earth, and behold, it was in peril because of the devices of those who had come into it. 
[21] And I saw and spared some with great difficulty, and saved for Myself one grape out of a cluster, and one plant out of a great forest. 
[22] So let the multitude perish which has been born in vain, but let My grape and My plant be saved, because with much labor I have perfected them. 







For behold, the burning wrath of a great multitude is kindled over you, and they shall carry off some of you and shall feed you what was sacrificed to idols.
[69] And those who consent to eat shall be held in derision and contempt, and be trodden under foot. 
[70] For in many places and in neighboring cities there shall be a great insurrection against those who fear YaHUaH. 
[71] They shall be like mad men, sparing no one, but plundering and destroying those who continue to fear YaHUaH. 
[72] For they shall destroy and plunder their goods, and drive them out of their houses. 
[73] Then the tested quality of My elect shall be manifest, as gold that is tested by fire. 
[74]
"Hear, My elect," says YaHUaH. "Behold, the days of tribulation are at hand, and I will deliver you from them.
[75] Do not fear or doubt, for YaHUaH is your guide. 
[76] You who keep my commandments and precepts," says YaHUaH, "do not let your sins pull you down, or your iniquities prevail over you." 
[77] Woe to those who are choked by their sins and overwhelmed by their iniquities, as a field is choked with underbrush and its path overwhelmed with thorns, so that no one can pass through! 
[78] It is shut off and given up to be consumed by fire.