32. because God Most High has heard your prayer; the Mighty God has seen the pure and righteous life that you have lived since your youth.
33. That is why he has sent me to show you all these things and to tell you not to be afraid but to trust him.
34. Do not be so quick to raise useless questions in the present age; then you will not be so quick to do so in the final age.”
35. After that, I mourned and fasted for seven more days, as I had done before, and so I completed the three weeks of fasting that I had been commanded to observe.
36. On the eighth day I was again deeply troubled, and I began to speak to God Most High.
37. I was very tense and my heart was uneasy,
38. but I said, “O Lord, at the beginning of creation you spoke the word. On the first day you commanded, ‘Let the universe be made,’ and your word carried out that command.
39. At that time the spirit was moving, darkness and silence were everywhere, and no human voice was yet heard.