2 Esdras 13:25-38

Revised Standard Version

²⁵ This is the interpretation of the vision: As for your seeing a man come up from the heart of the sea, ²⁶ this is he whom the Most High has been keeping for many ages, who will himself deliver his creation; and he will direct those who are left. ²⁷ And as for your seeing wind and fire and a storm coming out of his mouth, ²⁸ and as for his not holding a spear or weapon of war, yet destroying the onrushing multitude which came to conquer him, this is the interpretation: ²⁹ Behold, the days are coming when the Most High will deliver those who are on the earth. ³⁰ And bewilderment of mind shall come over those who dwell on the earth. ³¹ And they shall plan to make war against one another, city against city, place against place, people against people, and kingdom against kingdom. ³² And when these things come to pass and the signs occur which I showed you before, then my Son will be revealed, whom you saw as a man coming up from the sea.^{[a] 33} And when all the nations hear his voice, every man shall leave his own land and the warfare that they have against one another; ³⁴ and an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together, as you saw, desiring to come and conquer him. ³⁵ But he will stand on the top of Mount Zion. ³⁶ And Zion will come and be made manifest to all people, prepared and built, as you saw the mountain carved out without hands. ³⁷ And he, my Son, will reprove the assembled nations for their ungodliness (this was symbolized by the storm), ³⁸ and will reproach them to their face with their evil thoughts and the torments with which they are to be tortured (which were symbolized by the flames), and will destroy them without effort by the law^[b] (which was symbolized by the fire).