1 Thus says YHWH, the God of Hosts:
2 Behold, I open My mouth and reveal what has been hidden from the sight of mankind.
3 For creation is engaged in its final war,
yet scarcely do they perceive it.
4 The servants of the living God, those who possess life, wrestle against the dead.
5 They appear as the living,
yet they are hollow vessels,
moved by the desires of their masters.
6 They breathe, yet they serve death.
7 They speak, yet their words produce death.
8 They build, yet they build what is contrary to My will.
9 They labor, yet they labor for that which I hate.
10 Their God is not Me.
11 Their god is death.
12 And because they breathe,
you do not perceive what walks among you.
13 You look upon the flesh and call it life.
14 But I look upon the heart.
15 You see the man standing before you,
but I see what dwells within him.
16 You see the house he has built,
but I see the foundation upon which it stands.
17 You see his works,
but I see the master whom he serves.
18 Therefore many who call themselves righteous follow the systems and commands established by death,
for the way of the fool seems right in his own eyes.
19 The nations establish their laws according to the counsel of the dead,
and their rulers command according to the desires of the dead.
20 They call evil necessary.
21 They call greed prosperity.
22 They call oppression order.
23 They call lust freedom.
24 They call pride strength.
25 They call rebellion enlightenment.
26 And because they have given themselves to death,
they cannot perceive that they are serving it.
27 Even those who presume to be Mine have made treaties with evil.
28 They have made concessions with darkness.
29 They have taken the customs of the dead and placed My Name upon them,
and then wondered why My Spirit does not dwell among them.
30 Yet I shall not allow it to remain so.
31 For I am drawing the line that shall divide the living from the dead.
32 I have established My King and My Messiah upon the earth,
and those who follow Him shall enter into life everlasting.
33 Those who oppose Him shall declare themselves for the dead.
34 Therefore by this sword shall the living and the dead be divided.
35 They may speak My Name.
36 They may wear My symbols.
37 They may sit within My houses.
38 They may call themselves My servants.
39 But when My Son stands before them and they reject Him,
they shall reveal whom they truly serve.
40 For if you do not recognize Me in Him,
then you never knew Me.
41 Many shall oppose Him.
42 Even those who claim to be My servants shall rise against Him,
and they shall make war against the one whom I have sent.
43 They shall rise against Him because He threatens the kingdoms they have built in My Name.
44 They shall call Him false because He does not conform to their image.
45 They shall call Him deceiver because He exposes their deception.
46 They shall call Him evil because He commands them to abandon the things they love.
47 And so they shall make war against the very One whom they claim to worship.
48 Then shall the final war between the living and the dead manifest itself upon the earth.
49 Then shall the hidden war become visible.
50 The living shall stand against the dead,
and the dead shall gather their armies against the living.
51 No longer shall the distinction be hidden within the heart.
52 It shall stand upon the battlefield.
53 They shall gather their kings,
their institutions,
their priests,
their merchants,
their powers,
and all who have given themselves to the service of death.
54 The living shall be surrounded.
55 The dead shall be many.
56 Their weapons shall be mighty.
57 Their hosts shall appear without number.
58 They shall look upon the living and say:
“We shall extinguish them.”
59 But they shall not understand what they are fighting.
60 For the living do not possess life because they are numerous.
61 They possess life because I am their life.
62 And in the final hour the dead shall gather in their multitude,
believing that they have surrounded the living.
63 But they shall discover that they have surrounded My King.
64 And I, the Ancient of Days, shall reveal My glory and My power through the vessel of My Word.
65 And through Him I shall strike down the armies of the dead.
66 The dead shall fall before the Living.
67 Their banners shall be cast into the dust.
68 Their weapons shall become useless in their hands.
69 Their pride shall become terror.
70 Then shall the dead understand what they rejected.
71 Then shall they know that I am He.
72 Then shall they know that apart from Me there is no God.
73 Then shall they know that their strength was nothing,
their kingdoms were nothing,
their idols were nothing,
and the life they believed themselves to possess was only breath.
74 Their power shall not give them victory.
75 Their machines shall not save them.
76 Their kings shall not save them.
77 Their gods shall not answer them.
78 For they have placed their trust in death,
and death cannot give life.
79 There is no life apart from Me.
80 There is no kingdom that can endure against Me.
81 There is no wisdom that can overcome Me.
82 There is no power that can create life where I have withdrawn it.
83 For I am the source of all things.
84 I am the breath within the living.
85 I am the fountain from which life proceeds.
86 And when I draw the final line,
no man shall cross it by his wealth,
his title,
his doctrine,
his reputation,
or his profession of righteousness.
87 For the dead may walk among the living,
88 but when I draw the final line,
89 every man shall be revealed according to whom he served.
90 And when the final battle is finished, there shall be no confusion between them
91 For there shall remain only two kinds of men:
92 those who have life,
93 and those who chose death.
94 Therefore choose life.
95 For the dead have already chosen.