1. When I had finished speaking, the same angel that had been sent to me on the earlier nights appeared again.
2. He said, “Stand up, Ezra, and listen to what I have come to tell you.”
3. “Go ahead, sir,” I said.He continued, “Picture in your mind a broad, immense sea spreading over a vast area,
4. but with an entrance no wider than a river.
5. No one who wishes to enter that sea, whether to visit it or control it, can reach its broad expanse of water without passing through the narrow entrance.