And He answered and said unto me: 'Into twelve parts is that time divided, and each one of them is reserved for that which is appointed for it.
In the first part there shall be the beginning of commotions.
And in the second part (there will be) slayings of the great ones.
And in the third part (there will be) the fall of many by death.
And in the fourth part the sending of desolation.
And in the fifth part famine and the withholding of rain.
And in the sixth part earthquakes and terrors.
[Wanting]
And in the eighth part a multitude of porents and incursions of the Shedim.
And in the ninth part the fall of fire.
And in the tenth part rapine and much oppression.
And in the eleventh part wickedness and unchastity.
And in the twelfth part confusion from the mingling together of all those things aforesaid.
For these parts of that time are reserved, and will be mixed one with another and will minister one to another.
For some will of themselves be of service, and they will receive from others, and from themselves and others they will be perfected, so that those may not understand who are upon the earth in those days of this consummation of the times."