In particular, which apocalyptic books to include was even harder to imagine. Why the Book of Revelation was included in the New Testament? Why the Second Book of Esdras was included only in the Apocrypha?
2 Esdras tells us many interesting things about the End of the Age. It answers many questions which we ourselves would ask:
Here are some excerpts:
"Please tell me," I asked "do you think I will live until that time (the end of Age)? If not, who will be alive when it happens?"
He answered "I can tell you some of the signs of the end, if that is what you are asking; but I am not here to tell you how long you will live, and in any case, I don't know.
"But these are the signs: The time will come when all people on earth will be in the grip of great confusion. The way of truth will be hidden, and no faith will be left in the land. Wickedness will increase until it has become worse than you have ever known it to be. The country that you now see ruling the world will lie in ruins with no inhabitant or traveler there...
I replied. "But couldn't you have created all human beings, those of the past, the present, and the future, so that they would all live at the same time?...
He answered, "The creation cannot move faster than the Creator. And besides, the world wouldn't have been able to hold all the people if everyone had been created at the same time."...
For more interesting conversations, read all the 7 visions of Esdras.
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