2 Esdras 12:29-39

29 “As for your seeing the two small wings passing over to the head on the right, this is the interpretation:
30 The Most High is keeping these for the eagle's end. This rule will be weak and full of upheaval,
31 as you saw. The lion whom you saw rousing itself from the forest and roaring and speaking to the eagle and rebuking it for its deeds of injustice, as for all the words that you heard him speaking,
32 this is the anointed one. The Most High has kept him for the end of days. He will arise from the line of David, and he will come and speak to them. He will denounce their wicked acts and indict them for their injustice. He will set before them their despicable deeds.
33 He will put them on trial while they are still alive, and after he has convicted them, he will destroy them.
34 Yet he will mercifully liberate the remaining few from my people who are saved throughout my territory. He will make them joyful until the end comes—the Judgment Day, of which I have spoken to you from the beginning.
35 "This is the dream that you saw, and this is its interpretation.
36 You alone were counted worthy to know this secret of the Most High.
37 Therefore, write all these things that you saw in a scroll and hide it away.
38 Teach these matters to the wise among your people, whose minds you know can grasp and keep these secrets.
39 But wait here yet another seven days so that you may be shown whatever it pleases the Most High to show you."

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Lat omits of days, who will arise from the line of David, and who will come and speak.
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