2 Esdras 9:2-4

Revised Standard Version

² then you will know that it is the very time when the Most High is about to visit the world which he has made. ³ So when there shall appear in the world earthquakes, tumult of peoples, intrigues of nations, wavering of leaders, confusion of princes, ⁴ then you will know that it was of these that the Most High spoke from the days that were of old, from the beginning.