Apocalypse of Abraham 30

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.

1But while He was still speaking to me, I found myself once again upon the earth, and I said:

2“0 ETERNAL One! I am no longer in the glory which is on high, and there is one matter which my soul longed to know and understand which has not been revealed to me.”

3And He said to me: “What your heart desired I will tell you, because you have sought to see the ten plagues which I have prepared for the godless nations,

4and which have been pre-determined at the passing over of the twelfth hour of the age of the earth.

5Hear therefore what I divulge, and so shall it come to pass.10

6The first11 is the distressing pain of sickness; the second, conflagration of many cities;

7the third, the destruction and pestilence of animals; the fourth, hunger of the whole world and its people;

8the fifth, by destruction among its rulers, by earthquake and the sword; the sixth, the multiplication of hail and snow;

9the seventh, wild bests will be their grave; the eighth, hunger and pestilence will alternate with destruction;

10the ninth, punishment by the sword and flight in distress;

11the tenth, the voice of thunder and destructive earthquake.

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.