1 He answered me, “Measure diligently within yourself. When you see that a certain part of the signs are past, which have been told you beforehand,
2 then will you understand that it is the very time in which the Most High will visit the world which was made by him.
3 When earthquakes, tumult of peoples, plans of nations, wavering of leaders, and confusion of princes are seen in the world,
4 then will you understand that the Most High spoke of these things from the days that were of old, from the beginning.
5 For just as with everything that is made in the world, the beginning is evident and the end manifest,ᵃᵇ
6 so also are the times of the Most High: the beginnings are manifest in wonders and mighty works, and the end in effects and signs.
7 Everyone who will be saved, and will be able to escape by his works, or by faith by which they have believed,
8 will be preserved from the said perils, and will see my salvation in my land and within my borders, which I have sanctified for myself from the beginning.
9 Then those who now have abused my ways will be amazed. Those who have cast them away despitefully will live in torments.
10 For as many as in their life have received benefits, and yet have not known me,
11 and as many as have scorned my law, while they still had liberty and when an opportunity to repent was open to them, didn’t understand, but despised it,ᶜᵈ
12 must know it in torment after death.ᵉᶠ
13 Therefore don’t be curious any longer how the ungodly will be punished, but enquire how the righteous will be saved, those who the world belongs to, and for whom the world was created.”ᵍʰ
14 I answered,
15 “I have said before, and now speak, and will say it again hereafter, that there are more of those who perish than of those who will be saved,