Chapter 4


1

Now, this Yōzefos also wrote concerning his seed, and here are his words: I am Yōzefos the seer, descendant of Yōhannaz the seer, and I now recorded this vision which I had concerning my posterity. For it shall come to pass that in nearly two hundred years the ripeness of the wicked of this place shall reach its fulness, and when that day comes, there shall be a righteous seer who should come forth from my seed. And this is the wickedness that shall greet him.

2

Many of my children and the remainder of this people will have forsaken entirely their first love and will have turned Pūnkes and Vōdezaza into gods of death and war. And they will create many idols and images depicting their gods in the act of mighty war. And this they will do to justify the getting of many riches, and that they may conquer lands afar off. The entire world shall know the name of Scythia and will fear it, and this that my kinsmen should be able to gain whatever thing they desire. And in this, they will have taken up the combinations of Lōk. And I see that there will be many rulers set above them in these days, and these rulers will claim a certain religious authority, and they will rule and reign over this people with fear and terror. And they will play with the desires of this people, insomuch that they will drive them wherever they desire. And they will go unto nations and cause harm and carry away their women and children into slavery, and they shall brand them with the sigil of victory. And in this way, this people will become an evil and a vile people.

3

Now read my words, for I prophesy against you, my seed. In the name of Pūnkes, I send a righteous line down through my seed, for such is my faith. I will not have a wicked people destroy the righteous of my seed. Therefore, I name this righteous seer whom I have seen as ruler; he is my heir. And when he comes, he will draw in the righteous among this people and will set his face against the wicked. He will tear down their altars and cover their statues. He will set fire to a soaking altar like Beyaz before him,96 and in this way he will prophecy against the wickedness of this people.

4

And when he has done this, he will pay the ultimate sacrifice, for in his youth he will die and they will tote his carcass through the city as a trophy that they have finally slain the holy prophet of Aiy, but fear, oh you wicked people, for on the third day, he will awake, and he will have the strength of the mountains and he will take from you your records and your knowledge and he will lead his people unto righteous pastures. And in this, you will see a similitude of the sacrifice of Pūnkes, for Pūnkes will also die and his body displayed upon a tree that all might see the death of the Son of Man. But he will rise the third day unto glorious burnings, great Elohimus!

5

And all will know that he is Aiy, the son of the living Aiylōhyme. So too will the remainder of my seed know that this ruler is the servant of the Son of Man, for in that day he will take unto him all the holy records and the righteous sect of the people and will flee, and where he goes, the wicked cannot touch him, and he will greet the Son of Man when he comes in his glory and he and his people will be taken up and live forever while the remainder of this people will wallow away in darkness until those nations you opposed will oppose you. And they will become frustrated with your arrows and will utterly destroy you, and you will cease to be a people, destroyed in your wickedness. And I proclaim this is justice of the Almighty All, for they will put up with you no longer, and the blood of the righteous will cry up from the dust against you, and you will be destroyed.

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Nevertheless, I see the righteous among my seed that they will prosper on for many years, and they shall be a good and delightful people, quick to answer the call of their Aiy.