12. After these things I saw the same man coming down from the mountain and calling to himself another crowd—a peaceful one.
13. Many people came to him. Some were rejoicing and some were sad, some were even tied up, while some were bringing other people as an offering.I woke up in great fear and pleaded with the Most High. I said,
14. "From the beginning you showed your servant these wonders, and you considered me worthy that you should receive my prayer.
15. Now show me also the interpretation of this dream.
16. As I turn it over in my mind, I think: How terrible it will be for those who will be left in those days, and how much worse for those who aren’t left!
17. Those who aren’t left will be full of sorrow,
18. since they now know what lies in store for the last days, but they won’t live to see them. But how terrible it will be also for those who are left,
19. for that very reason! They will see great dangers, and there will be many kinds of distress, as these dreams show.
20. Yet it is better to encounter these things, even incurring danger, than to pass from the world like a cloud and not see what happens at the end."
21. He answered me, “I will tell you the interpretation of the dream as well, and I will explain to you the things you spoke about.
22. As to what you said about those who are left, this is the interpretation:
23. He who brings the danger at that time will himself guard those who fall into danger, who have works and faith in the most mighty one.
24. Know, therefore, that those who are left enjoy greater privilege than those who have died.
25. The interpretations of the vision are as follows:“In that you saw a man going up from the heart of the sea,
26. that is the one whom the Most High has been keeping for many ages. He will liberate God’s creation all by himself, and he will put in order those who are left.
27. “In that you saw something like wind and fire and storm go out of his mouth,
28. and that he didn’t hold a spear or weapon of war, yet destroyed the rush of that multitude that had come to fight him, here is the interpretation: