THE
last TESTAMENT
UNPUBLISHED
MANUSCRIPT, FEB 2003
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THE
LAST TESTAMENT
English Translation of
the Original Hebrew Manuscript
It
came to be in the second year of the Carter presidency over
the United States in the first month and on the first day
of the month I was by the bank of the river Hudson in the
New York and I saw the shame of the exile of the people
of God and the contempt of the fall of man from the Garden
of Eden of God. And I fell to my face and asked for mercy
and salvation from the Lord God the mover of the heavens
and the earth. And God spoke unto me and said: Stand up
Michael. And I stood up unto my feet and I said: Here I
am. And he said unto me: From the time that I spread the
heavens and the earth I have named you Michael Netzer a
sprout of the root of David the son of Abraham the father
of Israel my first born and in you I shall raise my messenger
and my faithful for the time of the end of days. And I fell
to the ground on the bank of the river and I said: Why through
me my Lord for I am as if I am not? And he said unto me:
You shall be what I make of you Michael stand up. And I
stood up onto my feet again and God said unto me: I have
established my covenant with Abraham and I have made him
unto a great nation and I have given unto his seed the land
of their dwelling to Yitzhak to Yaackov Israel. A nation
blessed from amongst the nations. And I have sent unto them
my servant Moses and my prophets and I have straightened
their path until the fulfillment of the works of the days
of creation and the gathering of the dispersed of my children
from amongst the nations and the gathering together of the
scattered nations unto my house and my Garden of Eden. And
I have prepared all this for the time of the end of days
and in you I shall give the sign of the harvest. And my
strength was departed from me and I fell to the ground and
I cried bitterly over the abyss of the spirit of my people
and over the depth of the fall of mankind and I raised my
voice to the God of the heavens and the earth and I said:
How can this be through me my Lord and my people have not
known me? And God said unto me: Michael stand up for there
is yet a time and times and half a time until the beginning
of the end and who puts wisdom into the heart of Israel
and man.
And
I stood up standing and I lifted my eyes and behold a magnificent
eagle sailed upon the face of the earth and its wings were
spread over the entire face of the waters and its head was
turned into the four winds of the heavens. And God lifted
me up unto the wings of the magnificent eagle and showed
me all of the kingdoms of the earth and the dispersal of
the nations of the dust of the ground into the lands of
the armies of their dwellings. And God spoke unto me and
said: From One I have divided three great peoples amongst
the nations Shem and Kham and Yefet and from three the seventy
nations of the world. Here behold the seventy nations and
I have gathered them together again unto three. Shem who
is Israel my first born and the first of my strength. Yefet
who is great in mercy for I have remembered the mercy of
his youth for he had covered his father's nakedness and
I have given him a great prince of my first born Israel,
Yehoshua the father of the Christian nation. And Kham who
is hot blooded and hot tempered and hot in filth who had
uncovered his father's nakedness. He is Kham the father
of K'naan cursed among the nations the father of Egypt the
father of Hagar the mother of Yishmael the father of the
Arab peoples and the Moslem nation. A nation cursed. By
its own blood has it felled many and by its own blood shall
it fall.
And
the magnificent eagle arose and carried me into the mountains
of the great Pacific sea and God showed me the entire kingdom
of the children of Yefet and God spoke unto me and said:
Thus shall you say unto the priests of the Christian nation:
A faithful prince have I given unto you from the seed of
my servant David and he is faithful unto my commandments
until the day of his death. And I have raised him unto you
a prince and you did not hearken unto his words which I
have put into his mouth. An old testament and a new testament
you have declared. Would you deceive me the Lord of the
armies of Israel to say: Israel is old and we are new? Thieves
have I driven out from my holy temple by the hands of your
prince and you have established thieves within your churches.
You have placed statues and images in your houses of prayer
and I did not know you. You have persecuted the poor and
the widowed and you did not know mercy and love as I have
commanded you. What shall I do to rebellious children such
as you. I shall utterly break you and your churches and
I shall grind your bones within the waters of your idols.
I shall cast you down into the dust and with a spirit of
justice shall I scatter your remains into the four winds
of the earth. And I the Lord God of Israel, I myself and
no other, shall come and gather my scattered and my faithful
and my beloved from amongst you and I shall bring them into
my house of supplication which dwells between the shoulders
of my holy mountain Yerushalaym the house of my dwelling.
And God said unto me: Michael stand up and write all of
these things in letters and images that I will put into
your hands for I have bestowed beauty unto Yefet and he
has loved the arts. And I stood up and I wrote and made
images as God had shown me and he said unto me: Send the
message unto the priests of the sons of Yefet. And I sojourned
the lands of the Christians and I sent the message.
And
I stood on the shore of the eastern sea of the United States
and behold the magnificent eagle sailed eastward on the
face of the waters. And God raised me unto it and brought
me into the mountain of Lebanon and showed me the entire
kingdom of the children of Kham and their iniquity. And
God said unto me: A prince from my children I did not give
them because they are a cursed nation. And I have sent my
words unto them through their prophet and he did not hear
me and they did not know me. I have made them last and they
have rebelled against me and in their heart they have stolen
my first born's rights and with the sword they have killed
the righteous. Yishmael was bound and not Yitzhak they declared.
My holy mountain they have stolen for Islam. Destruction
and desolation they have caused. Lies and evil they have
spread about. Blood and death they have brought forth. Their
father Kham did not hear me and the Arab nations will not
see me. I shall utterly destroy their palaces and I shall
widely scatter their leaders. I shall grind their flesh
until it is thin and they shall drink all that remains of
the waters of their filth and they shall eat the bones of
their children. I shall cast down their pride and I shall
disgrace their honor. They shall walk naked throughout their
deserts because they are the most deceptive amongst the
nations. I shall shatter their dwellings and I shall destroy
the borders of their nations and I shall burn their idols.
I shall make them as slaves within their own houses and
my first born Israel shall they serve. And God said unto
me: Michael stand up and write these sayings and I stood
up and I wrote.
And
I lifted my eyes and behold an army of lions pranced amongst
the cedars and it covered all of the mountains of Lebanon
and at their head was a great lion and his eyes were to
the heavens and his heart was the heart of a man. And God
lifted me up into the midst of the shoulders of the lion
and brought me southward towards the land of the dwelling
of Israel Be'er-Sheba Revivim a faction of the people of
God. And I fell to my face unto the ground and I raised
my voice and I asked for mercy and I pleaded to the God
of Israel for his goodness because factions and factions
had divided asunder the heart of the first born nation.
And God said unto me: Michael stand up and I stood up and
he lifted me up again into the midst of the shoulders of
the great lion and he showed me all of the settlements of
the people in Israel settlements and settlements according
to their factions. And he brought me unto the portion of
the fathers in Hebron and bound my spirit to the spirit
of my people in Nazareth. And he brought me to Beit-El Ofra
and planted me in the portion of the land of the fathers
and God said unto me: Dwell amongst your people because
there are yet times and half a time until the beginning
of the end and I the God of Israel shall raise a seed unto
you amongst your people and at the time of half a time until
the beginning of the end, you Michael shall stand up to
stand for the children of your people.
And it came to be
on the day of the gathering of the people in Israel for
the renewal of the covenant with the government of Sharon.
And I walked through the deserts of the land and I fell
to the ground unto my face and pleaded to God because of
the time of trouble that God has brought unto the people
in Israel. And God the creator of the heavens and the earth
called unto me saying: Michael stand up. And I stood up
and behold the fountains of the heavens were opened and
I lifted my eyes and a magnificent sight filled all of the
heavens and the chariots of the God of the armies of Israel
sailed upon the entire face of the waters. And God lifted
me up unto the chariot and showed me all of the kingdoms
of the earth and the ladder and the mountain of the covenant
rising towards the kingdom of heaven. And he brought me
into the garden of the witness of God at Ein-Gedi and behold
the angels and the flaming sword which turned every which
way and kept the way of the tree of life. And God said unto
me: Put forth your hand unto the flaming sword which turned
every which way. And I put forth my hand and behold the
sword stood within my hand and was turned into a staff within
my hand. And God said unto me: Behold I have given into
your hand the way of the tree of life because there is yet
a half a time until the beginning of the end of the kingdoms
of the earth. And God led me and I walked with God in his
Garden of Eden for forty days and forty nights.
And
God spoke unto me from within the midst of the Garden and
he said unto me: A stiff necked people have I fashioned
and unto my words they have not hearkened. Rebellious children
have I raised and my commandments they have not remembered.
Behold phylacteries and prayers they have declared but in
their hearts they did not worship me. Edicts upon edicts
they have murmured and lessons upon lessons they have memorized
and lies from their throats they have orated. Am I a God
of bribery? Do I not search the hearts and do I not know
the secrets of men? Woe unto a withered and unwise people
who have chosen the paths of death for they have said: God
has deserted us and there is no judge on the earth. Will
they connive me the connivers of the dispersed to say: Tassels
are the commandment and the remembrance is forgotten? Will
they deceive me the rabbis of a fallen nation to say: Our
sacrilege is holy and gods of silver and gold and glory
are in their hearts and they did not know the sanctity of
my ways? A light I have given unto them in the teachings
of Moses on Mount Sinai and they did not love the light.
With silver and gold did they cover the light until darkness
is in their hearts and the light is no longer. Commandments
of mercy and goodness have I given them and they have separated
meat and milk, mercy and goodness were vanquished. Charity
and charity they have declared and the poor and widowed
they have disgraced. A holy pride is in their hearts day
and night. A high heart they have inflated. A place for
my love in their heart they have not kept. My house within
them they have shut out. Woe unto a pompous nation my children
in your rebellion against me. Did I not destroy your temples?
Shall I have pity on your synagogues? What shall I do unto
an unwise people at the rise of the cry of iniquity unto
me. A time of trouble shall I bring unto you because of
the works of trouble which you have chosen. The rise of
the iniquity is ended and the days of anger and judgment
have arrived and who shall stand?
And
I heard all of these things and I fell to my face within
the midst of the Garden and I mourned because of the time
of trouble and I pleaded unto God and I asked for my soul
to die because of the trouble and that the fury of the judgment
would pass over my people. And God called unto me saying:
Michael stand up and I stood up and God said unto me: Write
all of these things in the book of The Last Testament and
send it unto the heads of the communities in Israel and
unto the heads of the priests of the rabbinates in their
dispersal and they shall not hearken unto you nor shall
they believe. But have no fear and let not your heart be
bitter for I the Lord God the creator of the heavens and
the earth have placed you a prince over my holy people and
over all of the nations of the lands. Arise Michael and
stand up and prophecy unto the people who sleep the slumber
of Zion because the time of the end has come. Stand up Michael.
Take your staff in your hand and arise and walk through
the land of your fathers to the length of the land and to
its breadth and I shall gather unto you my dispersed and
my faithful and my beloved from the four corners of the
world and I shall guard you in your journey until the end
of the desolation.
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