I saw in the vision of the night, and, behold, in the clouds of heaven like a Son of man that came and drew near unto the Elder of great age, and they brought him near before him.
¶ And Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and his disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.
And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the age?
and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with great power and glory.
And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
In that day, he who shall be upon the housetop and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away; and he that is in the field, let him likewise not turn back.
Remember Lot’s wife.
Whosoever shall seek to save his soul shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose it shall cause it to live.
I tell you in that night there shall be two men in one bed: the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
Two women shall be grinding together: the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Where the body is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
who also said, Ye men of Galilee, what do ye stand gazing at up into heaven? This same Jesus, who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;
then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
¶ This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
For there shall be men who are lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, evil speakers, disobedient to their parents, unthankful, impure,
without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, without temperance, without meekness, without goodness,
traitors, rash, puffed up, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God,
having the appearance of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
¶ knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts
and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the day in which the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Of course, they willingly ignore that the heavens were created of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, by the word of God;
by which the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished;
but the heavens, which are now, and the earth are conserved by the same word, kept unto the fire in the day of judgment and of perdition of the ungodly men.
¶ But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as one day.
¶ The Lord is not late concerning his promise, as some count lateness, but is patient with us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements, burning, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works that are in it shall be burned up.