Apocalyptic scene of Ascensio Isaiae (1)

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Ascensio Isaiae 4.14-18:And after (one thousand) three hundred and thirty two days the Lord will come with his angels and with the hosts of the saints from the seventh heaven, and will drag Beliar with his hosts into Gehenna, and he will bring rest to the pious who shall be found alive in the body in this world (and the sun shall grow red with shame), and to all who through faith in him have cursed Beliar and his kings. But the saints will come with the Lord in their garments which are stored on high in the seventh heaven; with the Lord they will come, whose spirits are clothed, they will descend and be present in the world, and those who are found in the body will be strengthened by the image of the saints in the garments of the saints, and the Lord will minister to those who were watchful in the world. And afterwards they will turn themselves upwards in their garments but their body will remain in the world. Then the voice of the Beloved will in wrath rebuke this heaven and this dry place (= the earth) and the mountains and hills, the cities, the desert and the forests, the angels of the sun and of the moon and all things wherein Beliar manifests himself and acts openly in this world, and resurrection and judgement will take place in their midst in those days, and the Beloved will cause fire to go forth from himself, and it will consume all the impious and they will be as if they had not been created.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Ascensio Isaiae 4.14-18

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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