I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face: but he said to me, Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.
I asked the angel who talked with me, *What are these?* He answered me, *These are the horns which have scattered Yehudah, Yisra'el, and Yerushalayim.*
*Thus says the LORD of Armies: 'If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my charge, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.
One of the elders said to me, *Don't weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Yehudah, the Root of David, has overcome; he who opens the book and its seven seals.*