What God Showed Abraham About the End of Days

Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 28:8

Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah says: From here you learn that the dominion of these four kingdoms is only one day out of a day of the Holy One, blessed be He. Rabbi Elazar ben Arakh said to him: Indeed, it is as your words say, as it is said: "He has made me desolate, faint all the day" (Lamentations 1:13), except for two handbreadths of an hour. You may know that it is so; come and see: when the sun inclines toward the west two handbreadths, its light grows weak and it has no brightness. So too, before the evening comes, the light of Israel shall rejoice, as it is said: "And it shall come to pass that at evening time there shall be light" (Zechariah 14:7).

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