2esd 9:4
King James Version
“Then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of those things from the days that were before thee, even from the beginning.”
Context
1He answered me then, and said, Measure thou the time diligently in itself: and when thou seest part of the signs past, which I have told thee before,
2Then shalt thou understand, that it is the very same time, wherein the Highest will begin to visit the world which he made.
3Therefore when there shall be seen earthquakes and uproars of the people in the world:
4Then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of those things from the days that were before thee, even from the beginning.
5For like as all that is made in the world hath a beginning and an end, and the end is manifest:
6Even so the times also of the Highest have plain beginnings in wonder and powerful works, and endings in effects and signs.
7And every one that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape by his works, and by faith, whereby ye have believed,