What will be the end of our City (Istanbul), this new Jerusalem? What will become of the venerable temples?
What will become of the divine crosses, holy icons, and holy books? Where will the remains of the saints be secured?
Explain to me, please! I know that about you and the saints, who are similar to you, God said: "The mysteries
of the kingdom of heaven are given and known." How indeed the mysteries of the world!
- This city, answered the blessed one, which holds the primacy among many other cities and nations, will remain impregnable and free.
The Virgin protects her "under the cover of her wings", and with her embassies, she will
remain invulnerable. Many nations will besiege her walls, but their strength will be crushed, and they will depart in shame. Many will become rich from her and enjoy her goods.
However, some prophecy says that the Agarites will beat it and slaughter the multitudes of people with the knife.
But I believe that the blonde race, whose name begins with the seventeenth letter of
the alphabet (P), will also enter. So he will come in and crush, and lay sinners to the ground. But woe to him from the two expatriate nations.
Their weapons will be swift as the wind, and destructive as a sharp sickle, that cuts down
the crops of the summer. These weapons will not be intercepted, but will then be disintegrated.
The pious king - Now, my child, How can I tell you without tears about the beginning of the odes and
the end? In the last days, God will raise up a poor person as king. This king will rule with justice, stop all wars and enrich the poor.
Happiness will reign as in the time of Noah. People will become very rich, they will live in peace and quiet, they will eat, they will
drink, they will come to marriage, they will move with much comfort and they will enjoy the goods of the earth without care because there will be no wars, they will beat their
swords into sickles, arrows into stakes, and spears into agricultural implements to cultivate the land. Later the king will turn east and humiliate the Agarites because God is angry with them
for their blasphemous religion and for the sodomite sin they commit, many of them will certainly be baptized, and they will please the king and be honored, and the rest but
they will be exterminated, burned, or cruelly put to death. At that time Illyricum will return to the Roman kingdom, while Egypt will capitulate.
This king will stretch out his right hand to the surrounding nations, tame the blond
races and defeat his enemies. His reign will last thirty-two years. For twelve years he will not collect taxes and duties, rebuild broken altars and rebuild
holy temples. In his days there will be no judgments, but neither will there be any unjust or wronged,
this king will be feared by all the earth, he will compel the people with fear to be punished, and he will destroy the rulers who do lawlessness. At that time God will reveal to the king all the gold, wherever it is hidden.
And he will spread it "with a shovel" throughout his country. From great wealth, the princes will live like kings and your poor princes.
This king will do great deeds. He will begin with great zeal to drive out the Jews. No Israelite shall remain within this City.
There will be no revels with lyres, guitars, and obscene songs. Nothing shameful will happen, because he will hate and exterminate "from the city of the Lord all the workers of iniquity" (Ps.
R' 8). Great joy and rejoicing will then prevail. Land and sea will give richly their goods. Life will flow peacefully and peacefully, and people will be happy as in the time of
Noah until the flood came. Milliarch Aran - After this reign, the calamities will begin. The son of perdition, the thousand-year-old Aran, will come to this City and will reign
for three years and six months. He will even compel men to commit such lawlessness, the like of which has never been done since
the world was created, nor will be done again. In other words, he will order and legislate so that father and daughter, son and mother,
brother, and sister come together, willy-nilly. And whoever resists or talks back will be put to death.
But he who will die in this way will be listed on the judgment day with John the Forerunner.
This king will order the marriage of monks and nuns, as well as priests. Thus the illegality of mixing will become worse than that of murder. He himself will fornicate with his mother and his daughter.
So since debauchery will become law, all prodigals will have orgies with their sisters. The stench of incest will ascend to heaven, and the Lord will be extremely angry with
the whole world. He will then give an order and lightning and thunder will begin to fall in unbridled anger
across the earth. Many cities will burn. People will be paralyzed by the terrible clap of thunder
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