2 Esdras 13:18-20

Revised Standard Version

¹⁸ because they understand what is reserved for the last days, but cannot attain it. ¹⁹ But alas for those also who are left, and for that very reason! For they shall see great dangers and much distress, as these dreams show. ²⁰ Yet it is better^[a] to come into these things,^[b] though incurring peril, than to pass from the world like a cloud, and not to see what shall happen in the last days.”

He answered me and said,