Testament of Levi
Chapter 16:1-5 breakdown
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“And now I have learned in the book of Enoch that for seventy weeks you shall go astray, and profane the priesthood, and pollute the sacrifices. And you shall make void the law and set at nothing the words of the prophets by evil perverseness. You Shall persecute righteous men and hate the godly. (exactly what Yeshua is reprimanding the scribes, pharasees and Levite priests for in Matthew 23) The words of the faithful shall you abhor. And a man who renews the law in the power of the Most High, you shall call a deceiver. (John chapter 8) And at last, you shall rush upon him to slay him, not knowing his dignity, taking innocent blood through wickedness upon your heads. (They chanted this as Yeshua was brought before Pilate) And your holy places shall be laid waste even to the ground because of him. And you shall have no place that is clean, but you shall be among the gentiles a curse and a dispersion until He shall again visit you and in pity shall receive you through faith and water.”