Chapter 16
1Please, consider your own body: your toenails, your fingernails, and the hair on your head—how they grow back quickly after you cut them. Know the Resurrection by this; for you have reasoning, religion, and knowledge.
2Regarding your nails and your hair, do you ask, "Where do these come from?" Is it not the Lord who prepared them to grow? Recognize the rising that shall happen to your own flesh—not another's flesh—so that you may know you will arise after you die.
3Because you misled people by saying, "There is no Resurrection of the dead," when the dead arise, you will receive your hardship according to your sins and iniquity.
4Just as the seed you plant now will not refuse to grow—whether it be wheat or barley—you will see this truth in the hour your hardship arrives.
5Furthermore, the plant you sow does not say, "I will not grow." Whether it is a fig tree or a grapevine, its fruit and leaves do not change their nature.
6If you plant grapes, they do not change into figs; if you plant figs, they do not change into grapes; if you sow wheat, it does not change into barley.
7Every seed, according to its kind—every fruit, every wood, every leaf, and every root—sends forth fruit, having received the blessing of the Dew of Pardon from the Lord. If you sow barley, it will not change into wheat.
8Likewise, as a grave produces flesh and soul, it shall produce persons exactly as the Lord sowed them within it. The flesh and soul the Lord sowed shall arise united. Those who did good works will not be changed into those who did evil, and those who did evil will not be changed into those who did good.
10In the hour when the drum is beaten, the dead shall arise by the Dew of Pardon found from the Lord. Those who did good works shall arise to the Resurrection of Life; their reward is the Garden of Joy that the Lord prepared for the righteous, where there is no tribulation or disease, and which is the dwelling of the clean who will never die again.
11But those who did evil works shall arise to the Resurrection of Final Judgment, along with the Devil who misled them...
12...and with his armies—demons who do not love even one of Adam’s children to be saved.
13They shall descend to the edge of the darkness of Gehenna, where there is grinding of teeth and mourning; where there is no mercy or pardon, and no exit for all eternity. It is beneath Sheol forever. For they did no good works during their lives in this world while they were in the flesh.
14Because of this, they shall be judged in the hour that flesh and soul arise united.
15Woe to those who do not believe in the rising of flesh and soul, through which the Lord shows the abundance of His miracles. Everyone shall receive their reward according to their work and the labor of their hands.