3. And when there shall be seen in the world earthquakes, disquietude of peoples, devices of nations, wavering of leaders, disquietude of princes,
4. then shall you understand, that the Most High spoke of these things from the days that were aforetime from the beginning.
5. For like as of all that is made in the world, the beginning is evident, and the end manifest;
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. And everyone that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape by his wotks, or by faith, whereby he has believed,
8. shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my land, and within my borders, which I have sanctified for me from the beginning.
9. Then shall they be amazed, which now have abused my ways: and they that have cast them away despitefully shall dwell 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 had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open to them, understood not, but despised it;
12. the same must know it after death by torment.
13. And therefore be you no longer curious how the ungodly shall be punished; but inquire how the righteous shall be saved, they whose the world is, and for whom the world was created.
14. And I answered and said,
15. I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also hereafter, that there be more of them which perish, than of the which will be saved:
16. like as a wave is greater than a drop.
17. And he answered me, saying, Like as the field is, so also the seed; and as the flowers be, such are the colors also; and such as the work is, such also is the judgement thereon; and as is the husbandman, so is his threshing floor also. For there was a time in the world,
18. even then when I was preparing for them that now live, before the world was made for them to dwell in; and then no man spoke against me,