Introduction
Introduction to Chazon Toma (The Apocalypse of Thomas)
Chazon Toma, or the Apocalypse of Thomas, is a vital prophetic and eschatological record preserved within The Ivri Heritage Bible. Framed as a direct, intimate letter from the Adon (Master) to His disciple Toma (the Twin), this text functions as an explicit revelation detailing the socio-political, environmental, and cosmic upheavals that will characterize the earth as the hour of the end draws near. Grounded in its authentic Hebraic and Messianic context, the text provides a vivid, structured roadmap of the transition from the current world age to the final divine judgment and the gathering of the elect (bechirim). The document unfolds across a series of distinct thematic phases: • Socio-Political and Spiritual Decay: The opening chapters outline a fractured world divided among earthly kings, defined by widespread warfare, economic desperation, and moral collapse. A central element of this decay is the corruption of the priesthood (kohanim), the desecration of the house of Yahuah יהוה, and a sequence of fluctuating earthly rulers—including a deceitful king who demands the worship of a golden image of Caesar within the house of Elohim. • Cosmic and Environmental Signs: As the timeline progresses toward the appearance of the anti-Mashiach, the natural world rebels. The text foretells extreme famines, the drying and bloody contamination of all water sources, the fracturing of the sun, and the falling of stars from the heavens (Shamayim). • The Seven Days of Judgments and Signs: The climax of the text details a precise, day-by-day countdown over seven days. Each day brings a specific cataclysm, including a rain of blood, massive earthquakes, total darkness, and the splitting of the firmament. By the sixth and seventh days, the physical and spiritual realms converge as the righteous malakhim (angels) appear, the nefashot (souls) return to their vessels, and the bodies of the kedoshim (set-apart ones) are resurrected and clothed in eternal garments of light. Concluding with an explicit reminder that the exact day of the end remains hidden even from the princes of the angels, Chazon Toma stands as a stern, urgent warning to believers to examine their actions while time allows. By restoring original Hebraic terms such as Yahuah (the divine Name), Torah (instruction), tzedakah (righteousness), and merkavah (the divine chariot-throne), this edition restores the text to its proper lineage, bridging historical prophecy with the enduring legacy of the Ivri heritage.
Chapter 1 Chapter 1
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This begins the letter of the Adon [Master; Lord (here, the Adon speaking to Toma)] to Toma [Thomas (T'oma — the Twin)]. Hear about the things that must happen in the last times.
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The world will be shared between kings; then after that, when the hour of the end draws near, there will be seven days of great signs in Shamayim [the heavens], and the powers of the Shamayim will be moved.
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There will be famine, war, and earthquakes in various places; snow, ice, and tremendous drought. There will be many open conflicts among the peoples: blasphemy, unrighteousness, evil, laziness, pride, and excess; and everyone will speak in the manner that he wishes.
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And my kohanim [priests] will fight among themselves, and will sacrifice to me with minds of deceit; because of this I will not look upon them.
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The kohanim will see the people forsaking the house of Yahuah יהוה [the divine Name (YHWH)] and turning to the world; they will venture into restricted places in the house of Elohim [God], and they will claim many things and places for themselves that were lost.
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And those things and places will become subject to Caesar, in the way they were given before as poll-taxes in the cities, as it is with gold and silver; and the chief men of the cities will be condemned, and their possessions will be brought to the treasury of the kings, and it will be filled.
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There will be disturbances throughout all the people, and there will be death. The house of Yahuah יהוה will be forsaken, and their mizbechot [altars] will be despised, so that the spiders weave their webs upon them.
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The place of holiness will be dishonored and violated, the priesthood contaminated; distress will increase, and tzedakah [righteousness] will be overcome; happiness will die, and gladness will depart.
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In those days evil will abound; people will cater to those of status and wealth; hymns will cease from the house of Yahuah יהוה; truth will cease; greed will abound among the kohanim; and no upright man, nor an upright priesthood, will be found.
Chapter 2 Chapter 2
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Near the last days the king will arise, a lover of the Torah [the Torah — instruction, teaching (KJV “law”)], who will not hold office for long; but he will leave two sons.
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The first is named with the first letter, A; the second with the eighth letter, H. The first will die before the second.
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After this, two princes will arise to oppress the Goyim [the nations; Gentiles] under their hands. A very great famine will occur; the famine will take place in the right-hand section of the east; and that nation will rise up against another nation, and be driven out from their own borders.
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Again, another king will arise, a deceitful man; he will order a golden image of Caesar to be made, set up, and worshiped in the house of Elohim. Martyrdoms will be widespread.
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Then the emunah [faith; trust] will return to the avadim [servants; bondservants] of Yahuah יהוה, and kedushah [holiness; set-apartness] will greatly increase; but so will distress and pain increase. The mountains will comfort them, and will drop down the sweetness of fire from their face, so that the predestined number of the kedoshim [the set-apart ones (saints)] may be completed.
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After a little space of time, a king will arise out of the east, a lover of the Torah, who will cause all good and necessary things to be in supply within the house of Yahuah יהוה; he will show mercy to the widows and the needy, and will order that a royal gift be given to the kohanim. In his days there will be abundance of all things.
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After that, a king will arise, this time in the southern section of the world, and will rule for only a short time. In his days the treasury will fail because of the wages of the Roman soldiers; and he will order that the substance of all the older citizens be taken and given to the king, that it might be distributed.
Chapter 3 Chapter 3
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After that there will be plenty of corn and wine and oil, but a tremendous lack of money, so that it would take the substances of gold and silver to buy corn; and there will be tremendous hunger and dearth.
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At that time the sea will rise greatly, and communications will be cut off from man to man. The kings, and the princes, and the captains of the earth will be troubled and fearful, and no man will speak freely.
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Gray hairs will be seen upon boys, and the young men will not respect nor listen to the aged.
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After that will arise another king, a deceitful man, who will rule for a short time; and in his days there will be all manner of evils. There will be a slaughter of the race of men living in the east, as far as Bavel [Babylon]; and famine and death by the sword will follow from Kena'an [Canaan] to Rome.
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Then all the springs of water and all the wells will dry up, and boil over, and be turned into dust and blood.
Chapter 4 Chapter 4
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The Shamayim will be moved, and the stars will fall upon the earth; the sun will be cut in half like the moon, and the moon will not give light. There will be great signs and wonders in those days, when the anti-Mashiach [antichrist (the one set against the Mashiach)] draws near.
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These are the signs for those that live on the earth in those days: the pains of great and hard labor, like those of a woman in travail, will come upon them.
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Woe to them that build, because they will not live in their buildings. Woe to them that plow the ground, because they labor for no cause.
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Woe to them that marry, because they will bring forth sons, and the famine. Woe to them that join house to house or field to field, because all things will be consumed with fire.
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Woe to them that do not examine themselves and their actions while time allows, because after this they will be condemned forever. Woe to them that turn away from the poor when he asks.
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You will know that I am the Father, El Elyon [God Most High], and I am the Father of all ruachot [spirits], as you will see. This is the beginning of the latter age.
Chapter 5 Chapter 5
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These are the signs of the ending of this world. There will be in all the earth famine, and tremendous disease, and sicknesses of vast proportions. All nations will take captives, and men will fall by the edge of the sword. The beginning of the days of judgment will make you wonder greatly.
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At the third hour of the first day there will be a loud and powerful voice in the firmament of Shamayim; and a great cloud of blood will come down out of the north, and loud thunder and powerful lightning will follow it; and blood will rain down upon all the earth. These are the signs of the first day.
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And on the second day there will be a loud voice in the firmament of Shamayim, and the earth will be moved out of its place; and the portals of the eastern part of Shamayim will be opened, and a great power will be sent forth, as if it were belched out by the portals of Shamayim themselves; and the power will cover all the heaven even until evening. And there will be fear and trembling in the world. These are the signs of the second day.
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And on the third day, at about the second hour, there will be a voice in Shamayim, and the vast depths of the earth will utter their voices from the four corners of the earth. The first heaven will be rolled up like a scroll and will vanish quickly; and smoke and the stench of brimstone, and the chasms, will darken the day until the tenth hour. Then all men will say, I think the end draws near, that we shall die. These are the signs of the third day.
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And on the fourth day, at the first hour, the eastern section of the earth will sound, the abyss will roar, and all the earth will be moved by a strong earthquake. In that day all the idols of the Goyim will fall, along with all the buildings upon the earth. These are the signs of the fourth day.
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And on the fifth day, at the sixth hour, the thunder will be loud and sudden in the sky; and the powers of light and the sphere of the sun will be snatched away, and there will be total, vast darkness over the world until evening; and the stars will be turned from their course. In that day all nations will hate the world, and all men will despise their life in the world. These are the signs of the fifth day.
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On the sixth day, at the fourth hour, there will be signs in Shamayim. The firmament of Shamayim will be split from east to west, and the malakhim [angels; messengers] of the heavens will look out upon the earth; and they will open the heavens, and all men will see the host of the malakhim looking out of Shamayim.
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Then all men will flee to the mountains, and hide themselves from the face of the righteous malakhim, and will say, I wish the earth would open and swallow us. These things will happen such as this world has never seen since it was created.
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Then they will see me coming from above, in the light of my Father, with the power and honor of the kadosh [set-apart; holy] malakhim. At my coming, the fires that border and restrain Pardes [Paradise; the Garden (Gan Eden)] will be removed; for Pardes is encompassed with fire, and this is a perpetual fire that will consume the earth and all the elements of the world.
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Then they will be clothed, and be carried by the hand of the kadosh malakhim, as I have told you before; they will be lifted up in the air upon a cloud of light, and will go with me into Shamayim, rejoicing; and they will continue in the light and honor of my Father. There will be gladness abounding, with my Father and before the kadosh malakhim. These are the signs of the sixth day.
Chapter 6 Chapter 6
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Then will the ruachot and nefashot [souls; living beings (pl. of nefesh)] of all men come out of Pardes, and will come upon all the earth; and every one of them will go to his own body where it is laid up, and every one of them will say, My body lies here.
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And when the loud voices of those ruachot are heard, like a huge earthquake, there will be a great earthquake all over the world; the mountains will be split in two from above, and the rocks from beneath.
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Then every ruach will return into his own vessel; and the bodies of the kedoshim who have died, which have fallen asleep, will rise.
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Then will their bodies be changed into the tzelem [image] and likeness, in the honor of the kadosh malakhim, and enter the power of the tzelem of my kadosh Father.
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Then will they be clothed with the garments of life eternal, made from the cloud of light which has never been seen in this world; for that cloud came down out of the highest realm of Shamayim, from the power of my Father; and that cloud will encompass with its beauty all the ruachot that have believed in me.
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And on the seventh day, at the eighth hour, there will be voices in the four corners of Shamayim, and all the air will be shaken and filled with kadosh malakhim; and they will make war among the Goyim all the day long. And in that day my bechirim [chosen ones; the elect] will be sought out by the kadosh malakhim, and saved from the destruction of the world. Then all men, the unbelievers, will see that the hour of their destruction draws near. These are the signs of the seventh day.
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And when the seven days are passed by, on the eighth day, at the sixth hour, there will be a sweet and tender voice in Shamayim from the east. Then that malakh will be revealed which has power over all the kadosh malakhim; and all the malakhim will go out with him, sitting upon a merkavah [chariot (the divine chariot-throne)] made of the clouds of my kadosh Father, rejoicing, running upon the air beneath the heaven, to deliver the bechirim that have believed in me; and they will rejoice that the destruction of this world has come.
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Toma, you must hear; for I am the Son of Elohim the Father, and I am the Father of all ruachot. You must hear my signs that will come to pass at the end of this world.
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The end of the world will come, and the world will pass away. Before my bechirim depart out of the world, I have told you plainly what will come. But when these things will come to pass, even the princes of the malakhim do not know; it is now hidden from their sight, as to what day the end will come.
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The words of HaMoshia [the Savior; the Deliverer] to Toma are ended, concerning the end of this world. Here ends Chazon Toma — the Apocalypse of Thomas.