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For Esau is the end of this age, and Jacob is the beginning of the age that follows.
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For the beginning of a man is his hand, and the end of a man is his heel; between the heel and the hand seek for nothing else, Ezra!"
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I answered and said, "O sovereign Lord, if I have found favor in thy sight,
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show thy servant the end of thy signs which thou didst show me in part on a previous night."
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He answered and said to me, "Rise to your feet and you will hear a full, resounding voice.
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And if the place where you are standing is greatly shaken
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while the voice is speaking, do not be terrified; because the word concerns the end, and the foundations of the earth will understand
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that the speech concerns them. They will tremble and be shaken, for they know that their end must be changed."
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When I heard this, I rose to my feet and listened, and behold, a voice was speaking, and its sound was like the sound of many waters.
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And it said, "Behold, the days are coming, and it shall be that when I draw near to visit the inhabitants of the earth,
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and when I require from the doers of iniquity the penalty of their iniquity, and when the humiliation of Zion is complete,
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and when the seal is placed upon the age which is about to pass away, then I will show these signs: the books shall be opened before the firmament, and all shall see it together.
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Infants a year old shall speak with their voices, and women with child shall give birth to premature children at three and four months, and these shall live and dance.
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Sown places shall suddenly appear unsown, and full storehouses shall suddenly be found to be empty;
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and the trumpet shall sound aloud, and when all hear it, they shall suddenly be terrified.
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At that time friends shall make war on friends like enemies, and the earth and those who inhabit it shall be terrified, and the springs of the fountains shall stand still, so that for three hours they shall not flow.
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"And it shall be that whoever remains after all that I have foretold to you shall himself be saved and shall see my salvation and the end of my world.
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And they shall see the men who were taken up, who from their birth have not tasted death; and the heart of the earth's inhabitants shall be changed and converted to a different spirit.
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For evil shall be blotted out, and deceit shall be quenched;
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faithfulness shall flourish, and corruption shall be overcome, and the truth, which has been so long without fruit, shall be revealed."
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While he spoke to me, behold, little by little the place where I was standing began to rock to and fro.