2 Baruch 72

Related ancient text — scholarly reference

Extra-canonical text — not LDS scripture and not in the KJV Apocrypha. Provided as scholarly reference for parallel literature of the Second Temple period and the early Christian era. Read with discernment; the Apostle Jude quotes 1 Enoch and Paul knew this material, but inclusion here is for study, not doctrine.

1"Hear now also regarding the bright lightning which is to come at the consummation after these black (waters): this is the word.

2After the signs have come, of which thou wast told before, when the nations become turbulent, and the time of My Messiah is come, He will both summon all the nations, and some of them He will spare, and some of them He will slay.

3These things therefore shall come upon the nations which are to be spared by Him.

4Every nation, which knows not Israel and has not trodden down the seed of Jacob, shall indeed be spared.

5And this because some out of every nation shall be subjected to thy people.

6But all those who have ruled over you, or have known you, shall be given up to the sword.

Public-domain text (R.H. Charles 1913 and equivalents). These works are not canonical, but several were widely read in antiquity and one (1 Enoch) is quoted by name in Jude 1:14–15. Useful for understanding the doctrinal landscape from which the apostles and earliest saints taught.