Matthew 24:16-31

¹⁶then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. ¹⁷Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house. ¹⁸Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak. ¹⁹But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days! ²⁰Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath, ²¹for then will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be. ²²Except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the elect`s sake, those days will be shortened. <sup>23</sup>Then if any man will tell you, `Behold, here is the Christ,` or, `There,` don`t believe it. ²⁴For there will arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. ²⁵Behold, I have told you beforehand. ²⁶If therefore they tell you, `Behold, he is in the wilderness!` don`t go out; `Behold, he is in the inner chambers,` don`t believe it. ²⁷For as the lightning comes forth from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. ²⁸For wherever the carcass is, there will the vultures be gathered together.

²⁹But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give her light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; ³⁰and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. ³¹He will send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.