The Book of Life By Thomas Harris

The fearful vengeance by the CHALDEANS

Habakkuk 1:17

The burden which Habakkuk the phophet did see O lord how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear even out unto thee of violence, and thou will not save, why doth thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? For spoiling and violence are before me. And there are they that raise up strife and contention.  Therefore the law is slacked. And judgment doth never go forth for the wicked, doth compass about his righteous, therefore wrong judgement proceedeth. Behold ye among the heathen, and regard and wonder marvelously for I will do a work in your days which ye will not believe. Iniquity has caused me to behold grievance/ and spoiling and though it be told you. For lo I raise up the chaldeans that bitter and hasty nation which march though the breath of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs. They are terrible and dreadful; their dignity shall proceed of themselves. Their horses also are swifter than the leopards. And are more fierce than the evening wolves and their horseman shall spread themselves. And their horseman shall come from afar; they shall fly as the eagle the hath to eat.  They shall come all for violence, their faces shut up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them they shall deride every strong hold, for they shall heap dust and take it.  Then shall his mind change and he shall pass over and offend, imputing his power unto his God; art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God mine Holy one? We shall not die. O Lord thou haste ordained them for judgement and O mighty God thou haste established them for correction. Thou art of pure eyes than to behold evil and cast not look of iniquity wherefore lookest thou upon him deal treacherously, and holds thy tongue when the wicked devours the man that is more righteous than he? And makes men as the fishes of the sea as the creeping things that have no ruler over them? They take up all of them with the angle; they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag. Therefore they rejoice and are glad. Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag. Because by them their portion is fat. And their meat plenteous, Shall they empty there net, and not spare continually to slay the nation.

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Chapter Two

Revelation 21:1

And I saw heaven open and Satan cast to the earth. Which was one who I also loved; and the third part of the tribe of Judea, and the sky was dazed. The stars fell from heaven there was no light neither from the sun or moon. The angels in heaven did rejoice, the four and twenty elders stood by with a great silence, and the son of man was torn after so many marvelous miracles sent from heaven. Confusion should come upon this earth from now till eternity, and this is everlasting.  Less at sometime ye shall repent. And be tried in the furnace of brimstone, and all the hell fire from heaven. That shall reign for a short time. After this the kingdom of God shall reign forever. This is the final death. The son of man has conquered death, and cast it into the midst of the sea. That it may trouble the kingdom of God anymore. For the false accusers of the brethren which was apart with the beginning of my sorrows and grow to know my works and used the heavenly sword to defile the temple of God. This is something I hate and my father also which is in heaven. Words such as these there’s no judgement from God. But he who sent him. Which was cast below the ground from this ye will receive your reward into which moth and corrosion doth eat away. A house that is divided shall surely fall to the ground and return not again.  May a new ruler which rule over the kingdom of Israel, be laid in the mist of the garden. Before the eyes of men that they will know and understand that the word of God was preached over the entire part of the earth.

The kingdom of God from abram unto Abraham, and Zion unto Sion. Have all come short of my father’s glory, unto the New Jerusalem, which is given from heaven. Coming down as a bride adorned for a husband. With a garment that make her as white as snow. Because of her repentance; which is true suffering and long labor. Which many men know not of. But judged other men according to their works and talents, which do take away. The accusation of the b