4 Ezra - Working Out Your Own Salvation

In Chapter 7 of 4th Ezra, we find the exact same admonishments as Jesus declared 400 years later.  That the way to find God is a narrow path and few really find it.  The majority find the easy broad road that leads to death.  4Ezra talks about the great tribultion that we must suffer, the great tribulation or proving ground that is life on this probationary existence, while the real spiritual life awaits those who work out their own salvation and overcome the false matrix that is this world system.