Apocalypse of Abraham 29:1-20
1And I said, "Eternal, Mighty One! How long a time is an hour of the age?"
2And he said, "I decreed to keep twelve periods of the impious age among the heathens and among your seed, and what you have seen will be until the end of
3time. Count (it) up, and you will understand. Look down at the picture."
4worshipped him. And while I was still looking, those on the right side came out,
5and some insulted this man, and some struck him and others worshiped him. And I saw that as they worshiped him Azazel ran and worshiped and, kissing his face,
6he turned and stood behind him.
7man insulted and beaten by the heathen, with Azazel worshiped?" And he answered and said, "Hear, Abraham, the man whom you say insulted and beaten and again worshiped is the liberation from the heathen for the people who will
8be (born) from you. In the last days, in this twelfth period of the age of my fulfillment, I will set up this man from your tribe, the one
9whom you have seen from my people. All will imitate him,,,(you) consider
10him as one called by me...(they) are changed in their counsels. And those you saw coming out from the left side of the picture and worshipping him, this
11(means that) many of the heathen will trust in him. And those of your seed you saw on the right side, some insulting him, some beating him, and others worshiping
12him, many of them shall be offended because of him. It is he who will test those of your seed who have worshiped him in the fulfillment of the twelfth hour, in the
13curtailing of the age of impiety.
14of your seed who have been set apart for me. In those days I will bring upon all earthly creation ten plagues through evil and disease and the groaning of the
15bitterness of their souls. Such will I bring upon the generations of those who are on it, out of anger and corruption of their creations with which they provoke me.
16And then from your seed will be left the righteous men in their number, protected by me, who strive in the glory of my name toward the place prepared beforehand
17for them which you saw deserted in the picture. And they will live, being affirmed
18by the sacrifices and the gifts of justice and truth in the age of justice. And they will rejoice forever in me, and they will destroy those who have destroyed them, they will rebuke those who have rebuked them through their mockery, and they
19will spit in their faces. Those rebuked by me when they are to see me rejoicing
20with my people for those who rejoice and receive and truly return to me."