Doug Metzger
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2,647 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Doug Metzger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The end of the world, the Bundeshion indicates, will begin to be perceptible through a waning of human appetites.
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People will begin eating less, having just one meal every three days, and leaving off eating meat, people will for a time subsist only on vegetables and sheep's milk until they eventually only drink water.
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Once ten years have passed, during which
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Humanity has ceased eating, the Seoshant will appear to raise the dead.
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The earliest humans will rise first, and then on down the line, with each person rising from the place where he or she died.
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The process will take fifty-seven years, and at its end, people will begin to recognize one another.
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Then a great assembly will take place during which people will be confronted
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with their good deeds and bad deeds, and then each half of humanity will go back to heaven and hell for three days, severed painfully from their brief terrestrial reunion.
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The pious will, during these three days, cry for the wicked, and the wicked will cry for themselves.
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At the end of the three days, the mountains of the earth will be melted, and humanity will be brought back to pass, through the molten metal of the heated mountains.
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For the good the passage through the molten metal will feel pleasant, while for the wicked it will be an awful torture.
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Having explained this famous Zoroastrian doctrine, the Bundahesion goes on to describe how heaven will work,
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Interestingly, the searing punishment of the molten metal seems to have been understood as a purification process for evil people, because as the Bundahishan says, the Savior, or Seoshant, will give the elixir of immortality, quote, to all people, and all people will be immortal forever and ever.
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Or Mazd, in the Bundahijan at least, is more forgiving than the deities of the Abrahamic scriptures.
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In the Bundeshion those who died young will be resurrected in heaven at the age of fifteen, and every one else at the age of forty.
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Men and women will continue to have sex in heaven, but no children will be born to them there.
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Just as humanity is exalted and purified, the Bundeshan says, so too will earth be exalted and purified.
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The great lake of hot metal will burn down into a cavity where Araman had made hell and his earthly domain, and once it cools and solidifies, hell will be gone.
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The earth, with its mountains melted, will return to the flatness and stasis with which.
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in which it had once been created.
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