20. when the seal is placed on the age that begins to pass away, I will perform these signs: Scrolls will be opened in view of the firmament, and all will see together.
21. Infants a year old will speak with their voices, and pregnant women will give birth to premature babies of three and four months, but they will live and dance.
22. Fields that were not sown will suddenly appear sown, and full warehouses will suddenly be found empty.
23. A trumpet will sound with a blast; when all hear it they will suddenly be terrified.
24. In that time friends will make war on friends like enemies, the earth along with those who live on it will be terrified, and the sources of rivers will stand still so that they don’t run for three hours.
25. Then everyone who is left after all these things that I have foretold to you will be saved. These will see my deliverance and the end of my age.
26. They will see the people who have been taken up and who haven’t tasted death from their birth. The hearts of those who live on earth will be changed and converted to a different spirit,
27. for evil will be erased and grief extinguished.
28. Faith will flourish, and corruption will be overcome. Truth that was without fruit for so long will be displayed."
29. While he was still speaking with me, the place on which I stood was shaken, little by little.
30. He said to me: "I came to show you these things this night.
31. If you ask further and fast again for seven days, I will again declare daily to you greater things than these,
32. because the Most High has listened to your voice. The mighty one has seen your virtue and perceived the humility you have had from your youth.
33. Because of this he sent me to show you all these things and to say to you: Trust confidently, and don’t be afraid.
34. Don’t be hasty to think empty thoughts about the former times, lest you be hasty about the last times."
35. After all this I wept again and abstained from food for another seven days, to complete the three weeks that had been prescribed for me.
36. Then on the eighth night my heart was disturbed within me again, and I began to speak before the Most High.
37. My spirit was greatly agitated, and my soul was troubled.
38. Then I said: “Lord, you spoke from the beginning of creation on the first day, ‘Let heaven and earth be made,’ and your word accomplished the deed.
39. Then the spirit was hovering, darkness was spread around, and there was silence. There was as yet no sound of a human voice.
40. Then you commanded that a ray of light be brought forth from your treasuries so that your works might be seen.