Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 127
and it would not be of our purpose that we were good; and
what we did would not be ours, but of the necessity of our nature.
But how can that be called good which is not done of
purpose? And on this account the world required long periods,
until the number of spirits which were predestined to fill it
should be completed, and then that visible heaven should be
folded up like a scroll, and that which is higher should appear,
and the spirits of the blessed, being restored to their bodies,
should be ushered into light; but the spirits of the wicked, for
their impure actions being surrounded with fiery spirit,
should be plunged into the abyss of unquenchable fire, to endure
punishments through eternity. Now that these things are
so, Yahshua has testified to us; concerning whom, if you wish
to know that He is a prophet, I shall instruct you by innumerable
declarations. For of those things which were spoken by
Him, even now everything that He said is being fulfilled; and
those things which He spoke with respect to the future are
believed to be about to be fulfilled, for faith is given to the fut
Chapter XXVII: The Visible Heaven: Why Made
But Simon, perceiving that Kefa was clearly assigning a
reason from the head of prophecy, from which the whole
question is settled, declined that the discourse should take
stions
that I put, and tell me, if that visible heaven is, as you say,
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was made for the sake of this present life of men, that there
might be some sort of interposition and separation, lest any
unworthy one might see the habitation of the celestials and
the abode of Yahweh Himself, which are prepared in order to
be seen by those only who are of pure heart. But now, that is
in the time of the conflict, it has pleased Him that those things
be invisible, which are destined as a reward to the conque-
is good, how shall He who is good ever destroy that which is
good? But if He shall destroy that which is good, how shall He