Wheresoever, etc... The coming of Christ shall be sudden, and manifest
to all the world, like lightning: and wheresoever he shall come, thither
shall all mankind be gathered to him, as eagles are gathered about a
dead body.
24:29. And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun
shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars
shall fall from heaven and the powers of heaven shall be moved.
The stars... Or flaming meteors resembling stars.
24:30. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven. And
then shall all tribes of the earth mourn: and they shall see the Son of
man coming in the clouds of heaven with much power and majesty.
The sign, etc... The cross of Christ.
24:31. And he shall send his angels with a trumpet and a great voice:
and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the
farthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them.
24:32. And from the fig tree learn a parable: When the branch thereof is
now tender and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh.
24:33. So you also, when you shall see all these things, know ye that it
is nigh, even at the doors.
24:34. Amen I say to you that this generation shall not pass till all
these things be done.
24:35. Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.
Shall pass... Because they shall be changed at the end of the world into
a new heaven and new earth.
24:36. But of that day and hour no one knoweth: no, not the angels of
heaven, but the Father alone.
24:37. And as in the days of Noe, so shall also the coming of the Son of
man be.
24:38. For, as in the days before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which
Noe entered into the ark:
24:39. And they knew not till the flood came and took them all away: so
also shall the coming of the Son of man be.
24:40. Then two shall be in the field. One shall be taken and one shall
be left.
24:41. Two women shall be grinding at the mill. One shall be taken and
one shall be left.
24:42. Watch ye therefore, because you know not what hour your Lord will
come.
24:43. But this know ye, that, if the goodman of the house knew at what
hour the thief would come, he would certainly watch and would not suffer
his house to be broken open.
24:44. Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not
the Son of man will come.
24:45. Who
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