‘ESDRAS INSIGHTS’ - is the new edition of the first book which was called Ezdras Insights which originally came out in 2018. This new edition published in the summer of 2023 contains both of the apocryphal books of 1st and 2nd Esdras, PLUS - ‘4000 Years of Biblical History from Creation to Christ’. The first edition only contained the
apocryphal Book of 2nd Esdras.
Description of the apocryphal Book of 2nd Esdras
The Book of 2nd ESDRAS is in my opinion, one of the most interesting of the Apocryphal books, that I have had the privilege of studying. For this reason, I have placed 2nd Esdras before the merely
historical book of 1st Esdras in this book of ESDRAS INSIGHTS. It Is beautiful to see Ezra’s desperate prayers to God and then the visions that follow.
The book of 2nd Esdras is, in few words, miraculous, supernatural & inspiring! Contrary to what others have stated, I believe that this book
is an accurate account given by God to Ezra, through His angel Uriel.
It is stated to Ezra by God Himself, that he alone would see the visions and dreams and prophecies that follow.
II Esdras 8.61 “I have not shown this to all men, but only to you and a few like you.”
Enoch 19.3 “And I Enoch alone saw the vision, the ends of all things; and no man shall see as I have seen.”
The Book of II Esdras, was originally written about 2500 years ago, or between the 5th and 6th centuries BC. I propose, that unfortunately in
our modern times, many Christians are conditioned by “the traditions of the churches”, only to believe the easy to believe topics, and most people do not embrace the truly miraculous, which used to be much more accepted in the “less enlightened days” of man’s wisdom. I am reminded of the cryptic Bible verse: (1CO.2:14) ‘But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned’.
I have heard writers dismiss the ‘Book of II Esdras’, saying that it sounds too much like the New Testament, and wasn’t written by Ezra, but by the Christians in around 90 AD, impersonating Ezra. However, after close scrutiny of the book, one is quickly shown, that that is clearly not the case, and that the Ezra mentioned in the Bible, who
