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The Apocalypse of Abraham ends its ten plagues with thunder, voices, and a destructive earthquake. Revelation 11 echoes this cluster at the opening of the heavenly Temple, placing the disturbance beside the arrival of God’s final judgment.
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1000+ CE
Apocalypse of Abraham 30:8
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
2 And He said to me: "What is desired in your heart I will tell you, because you have sought to see the ten plagues which I have prepared for the heathen, and have prepared beforehand at the passing over of the twelfth hour of the earth. 3 Hear what I divulge to you, so shall it come to pass: 4 the first (is) pain of great distress; the second, conflagration of many cities; 5 the third, destruction and pestilence of animals; the fourth, hunger of the whole world and of its people; 6 the fifth by destruction among its rulers, destruction by earthquake and the sword; the sixth, multiplication of hail and snow; 7 the seventh, the wild beasts will be their grave; the eighth, hunger and pestilence will alternate with their destruction; 8 the ninth, punishment by the sword and flight in distress; the tenth, thunder and voices and destructive earthquake.
Revelation 11:19
New Testament
17 with these words: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the All-Powerful, the one who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and begun to reign. 18 The nations were enraged, but your wrath has come, and the time has come for the dead to be judged, and the time has come to give to your servants, the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints and to those who revere your name, both small and great, and the time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth.” 19 Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was visible within his temple. And there were flashes of lightning, roaring, crashes of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.
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Notes and References
“... Cf. Rev. xi. 19b. [Perhaps the passage most closely parallel with our text is Ap. Bar. xxvii. 1-13.] ...”
Box, G. H., with J. I. Landsman
The Apocalypse of Abraham
(p. PDF 53) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918
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