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And now I, Neum, the Oracle, shall speak
unto my children,
even the children of Joseph
that shall read my words in the last days.
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Hear me now, O Israel!
Hear the words written so long ago;
for I see you, though I do not understand what I see,
YHVH makes you known unto me,
and I see your sin.
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And what is this sin?
You have forgotten to read the stars,
and to observe the holy days of YHVH,
and Her Sabbaths,
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Your love for one another has waxed cold;
the rich eat while the poor go hungry and naked –
yet is this not the sin of every generation of mankind?
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Yea, look now and ponder this:
How can one understand without knowledge?
How can one listen without hearing?
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How can one be wise without learning?
How can one hear while speaking?
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How can one receive mercy without giving mercy?
How can one give a gift without a willingness to receive a gift?
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How can one seek justice without they themselves accepting justice?
How can one have strength without bending to the winds?
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YHVH spoke
and the Voice was heard by His children,
and the Voice gave mankind much wisdom
and understanding:
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YHVH uncovered our ears that we may hear,
our eyes that we may see,
our mouths that we may eat and gain strength,
our feet that we might run to those in need,
and our hands that we might serve El’Olam.
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YHVH created understanding
for all who seek knowledge and truth,
that they might know all wisdom
that has been given from eternity to eternity:
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Truth may not be changed,
and the mercy of YHVH is neither hidden
nor locked up behind the waters
that we should receive Him not;
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For YHVH is El Elyon,
and His Father and His Mother do sit upon their thrones
in the heaven above the heavens,
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And His Asherah does sit with Him
and presides in the council of Ha’Elohim.
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And YHVH is known well for His patience,
see how many times He has forgiven Israel
and taken Judah under His mighty arm:
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And YHVH is known well for the might of His great anger,
and He has turned His wrath against the enemies of Israel;
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And even as YHVH is known well
for His numerous acts of mercy towards Israel,
He too will be made known as terrible in His wrath
against His people,
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For we have not honored our covenant,
and over the land YHVH did give us,
we have not made Him our ruler:
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And though Ha’Elohim is honored
among Israel, His holy people —
among Israel, His chosen people —
we have become a people of industry
and not a holy people.
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Israel has become great in the blessings of YHVH,
and in seeing our splendor
yet forgotten the Voice of the covenant.
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Yet we too shall know the mercy of YHVH,
for His righteous anger against us shall pass
and our people shall be humbled
but not utterly destroyed.
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And when this era of wickedness is at an end,
and evil is abolished in the Messiah,
the Great Ha’Kohen shall make the final sacrifice.
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And we know the genealogies:
Abraham begot Isaac,
and Isaac begot Jacob,
and Jacob begot Levi,
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And Levi begot Qohath,
and Qohath begot Amram,
and Amram begot Aaron,
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And Aaron begot Eleazar,
and Eleazar begot Phinehas,
and Phinehas begot Abishua,
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And Abishua begot Buqi,
and Buqi begot Azzi,
and Azzi begot Zerahiah,
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And Zerahiah begot Meraioth,
and Meraioth begot Azaryhu,
and Azaryhu begot Amariah,
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And Amariah begot Achytub,
and Achytub begot Tzadok;
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And it was Tzadok Ha’Kohen
in the days of our kings, David and Solomon,
who were mighty before YHVH,
yet in their pride even they did sin against YHVH;
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And Tzadok begot two sons,
Ahimaaz who was High Priest over Israel,
and Zenoch;
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And Zenoch was made a priest in the lands of Joseph,
and there he served us in a temple of our lands;
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And Zenoch begot Zenock,
the seer and prophet.
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Even as we, in this day,
do write the words of Zenock, the son of Zenoch,
we do not understand them.
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And even as we do seek out Zenoch the priest
to make sacrifices unto YHVH,
I see that you, in the last days,
do seek out the priests
that you might accept the sacraments of YHVH,
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But even as the people do not harken unto Zenock
and his brethren, the prophets,
nor will they give heed unto my words,
they will be gathered and kept
as a testimony against them;
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So you do gather up the words,
but will you listen?
Will you heed them?
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When the Great Ha’Kohen offers up His mercy,
will you accept it, O Israel,
with the first and last great sacrifice –
that of the broken heart and contrite spirit?
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I ask those of you that are wise to ponder:
If Adam has a good tree,
one that does grow upward,
even into the heavens,
will he not love it?
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And if Adam does love it,
will he not care for the soil about it?
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And when Adam sees that the tree grows
heavy with the best fruit each year,
watching it grow in the rains of autumn and in the spring,
but sees it thirst in the heat of the summer,
will he not give it water?
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And will Adam not see to protect it,
and to keep it safe?
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And will he not see fit to multiply the seeds of the tree
and to nurture that orchard, to grow it
and protect the branches of it?
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For even as the Voice has come
unto the prophets and prophetesses of your generation,
so to have they come through the voice of all generations;
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Therefore, when the days shall come
that all that has been shall be gathered into one,
stand watch that you will be ready.