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Apocalypse of Abraham 22

Pseudepigrapha — not canonical

G.H. Box, 1918 (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge). These texts are not endorsed in any LDS canon — see framing.

1And I said: “0 ETERNAL, Mighty One! What is this vision and picture of the creatures?”.

2And He said to me: “This is my will for those who exist in the divine world-counsel, for thus it seemed well-pleasing in my sight,

3and so afterwards I gave the commandments to them through My word.

4So that everything I had decided to create had already been planned before in this ,

5it was in front of Me before it was created, you have seen”. 26 And I said: “O LORD, Mighty and ETERNAL! Who are the people in this picture on this side and that?”. 7 And He said to me, “Those who are on the left side3 are all those, born before your day and afterwards, some destined for judgment and restoration, 8 and others for vengeance and cutting off at the end of the ages. 9 But those on the right side3 of the picture, they are the people who have been set apart for me, 10 and whom I have ordained to be born of your line and called my people, even some of those who derive from Azazel.

Public-domain text. Pseudepigrapha are extra-canonical witnesses to the Second Temple and early Christian worlds; read with discernment. The Apocrypha endorsement in D&C 91 does not extend to these texts.