Apocalypse of Abraham 15

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.

1And it came to pass when the sun went down, behold there was the smoke as of a furnace1,

2and the angels who had the portions of the sacrifice ascended from the top of the smoking furnace.

3And the angel took me with his right hand and set me upon the right wing of the pigeon,

4and set himself on the left wing of the turtle dove, neither of which birds had been slaughtered,

5and he bore me to the borders of the flaming fire, and we ascended upon many winds to the heavens which were above the firmament.

6And I saw in the air on the heights to which we ascended, a strong light impossible to describe

7and within the light a fiercely burning fire of people, many people, of male appearance, all constantly changing in aspect and form

8running and being transformed, worshipping and crying with a sound of words that I could not distinguish.

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.