16. The weaker the world becomes because of old age, the more will evils multiply upon those who dwell in it.
17. Truth will depart and falsehood will come near. Even now the eagle, which you saw in your vision, hastens to come."
18. I answered: "I will speak in your presence, Lord!
19. Look, I will go as you commanded me and warn the people who are now living. But who will warn those who will be born in the future?
20. The world is in darkness. Those who live in it have no light,
21. because your Law has been burned, and so no one knows what things you have done or what works are about to come to pass.
22. If then I have found favor before you, send a holy spirit into me, and I will write everything that has happened in the world from the beginning, the things that were written in your Law, so that human beings can find the path, and those who want to live in the last days may live."