5. Just as with everything that has happened in the world, the beginning is known from the end, and the end comes to be seen,
6. so also are the times of the Most High. The beginnings are manifest in prodigies and mighty works, and the end is evident in deeds and in signs.
7. All this—who will be saved, who will be able to escape through their works or through the faith with which they believe—
8. will survive the predicted dangers and will see my salvation in my land and within my borders, which I have made holy for myself for a long time.
9. Then whoever has now abused my ways will be astonished, and whoever rejected them in contempt will linger in agony.
10. Those who didn’t acknowledge me when they were alive, even though they received benefits;
11. those who despised my Law while they were enjoying freedom
12. and didn’t come to their senses but continued to scoff while the opportunity for a changed life was still open to them—these people must acknowledge me in torment after death.
13. But don’t be curious any longer about how the wicked will be tortured. Instead, inquire how and when the righteous, to whom the world belongs and because of whom the world exists, will be saved."
14. I answered,
15. "I said before and now will say again that those who perish are more numerous than those who are saved,
16. just as a wave is greater than a drop."
17. He answered me: "As the field is, so is the seed; and as the flowers, so also the colors; as the labor, so also the product; and as the farmer, so the threshing floor.
18. There was a time in this world—when I was preparing for those who now are, before the world in which they would dwell was made for them—no one opposed me, because no one existed yet.
19. Now, however, those who have been created in this world—a world furnished with both an inexhaustible table and an endless pasture—have become corrupt in their habits.