Then the Son of Man will appear, coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

He will send the angels out to the four corners of the earth to gather God's chosen people from one end of the world to the other.

"No one knows, however, when that day and hour will come---neither the angels in heaven nor the Son; the Father alone knows.

In the days before the flood people ate and drank, men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat;

At that time two men will be working in a field: one will be taken away, the other will be left behind.

Watch out, then, because you do not know what day your Lord will come.

"It was already midnight when the cry rang out, 'Here is the bridegroom! Come and meet him!'

And Jesus concluded, "Watch out, then, because you do not know the day or the hour.

"After a long time the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them.

Jesus said to them, "The times and occasions are set by my Father's own authority, and it is not for you to know when they will be.

For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief comes at night.

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that Day the heavens will disappear with a shrill noise, the heavenly bodies will burn up and be destroyed, and the earth with everything in it will vanish.

Remember, then, what you were taught and what you heard; obey it and turn from your sins. If you do not wake up, I will come upon you like a thief, and you will not even know the time when I will come.

This book is the record of the events that Jesus Christ revealed. God gave him this revelation in order to show to his servants what must happen very soon. Christ made these things known to his servant John by sending his angel to him,