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Testament of Benjamin 9
Benjamin quotes Enoch's prophecy over his tribe: Benjamin's portion will host the temple, gathering twelve tribes and Gentiles alike, until the Most High — El Elyon — sends His salvation in the visitation of His only-begotten, Jehovah clothed in flesh. That Only Begotten enters the temple, is treated with outrage, is lifted on a tree, and the veil tears. The Spirit then pours upon the Gentiles as fire. He rises from the grave and ascends to heaven — the full messianic arc compressed into one prophetic utterance, with the Father-Son pattern named explicitly: El Elyon sending His only-begotten Son.
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Now I suppose, from the words of the righteous Enoch, that there will be also evil-doings among you: for ye will commit fornication with the fornication of Sodom, and shall perish all save a few, and will multiply inordinate lusts with women; and the kingdom of the Lord shall not be among you, for forthwith He will take it away. Nevertheless the temple of God shall be built in your portion, and shall be glorious among you. For He shall take it, and the twelve tribes shall be gathered together there, and all the Gentiles, until the Most High shall send forth His salvation in the visitation of His only-begotten one. And He shall enter into the front of the temple, and there shall the Lord be treated with outrage, and He shall be lifted up upon a tree. And the veil of the temple shall be rent, and the Spirit of God shall descend upon the Gentiles as fire poured forth. And He shall arise from the grave, and shall ascend from earth into heaven: and I know how lowly He shall be upon the earth, and how glorious in the heaven.
