The Assumption of Moses 10

1And then His kingdom shall appear through His whole creation. And then the devil shall have an end, And sadness shall be taken away with him.

2Then the hands of the Angel shall be filled, Who is established in the highest, Who shall straightway avenge them of their adversaries.

3. . . For the Heavenly One shall arise from the throne of His kingdom, And shall come out of His holy habitation With indignation and wrath for His children.

4And the earth shall quake: even to its bounds shall it be shaken: And the lofty mountains shall be brought low and shall be shaken, And the valleys shall fall.

5The sun shall not give his light, and the horns of the moon shall be turned into darkness, And they shall be broken, and the whole of the moon shall be turned into blood. And the circuit of the stars shall be disordered;

6And the sea shall fall even to the abyss; The fountains of waters shall fail, And the rivers be afraid.

7Because the Most High God, the Eternal, the Only God shall arise, And manifest Himself to punish the nations, And to destroy all their idols.

8Then shalt thou be happy, thou O Israel, And shalt mount on the neck and wings of the eagle, And (the Days of thy sorrow) shall be ended.

9And God shall exalt thee, And bring thee to the heaven of the stars, The place of His habitation.

10And thou shalt look from on high, and behold thy adversaries on the earth, And shalt know them and rejoice, And give thanks, and acknowledge thy Creator.

11"Now must thou, Joshua son of Nun, keep these words and this book;

12For there shall be from my death and assumption even to His Coming two hundred and fifty times, which shall pass.

13And this is the course of the times . . . which they shall finish, until they are consummated.

14But I go to sleep with my fathers:

15Wherefore be thou, Joshua, son of Nun, strong; God hath chosen thee in my place to be the minister of the same covenant."