24. They have rejected his Law, refused to accept his promises, disobeyed his decrees, and failed to do what he commanded.
25. That's the reason, Ezra, that there is emptiness for the empty and fullness for the full.
26. “The time is coming when these signs will take place. The invisible city will appear, and the land that is now hidden will be seen.
27. Everyone who survives the calamities I have predicted will also see the wonderful things I will do.
28. My son the Messiah will be revealed, together with those who come with him. He will bring 400 years of happiness to all these survivors.
29. At the end of that time, my son the Messiah and all human beings will die.
30. Then the world will return to its original silence, and for seven days it will be like it was at the beginning. No one will be left alive.
31. After seven days this corrupt age will pass out of existence and a new age will be awakened.
32. The ground will give up the dead who sleep there in silence, and the souls of the dead will be released from the places where they have been kept.