the end of time

¹And know this: that in the last days perilous times will press near. ²Men will be lovers of themselves, greedy, self-exalting, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, ³without affection, without peace, false accusers, unchaste, cruel, without kindness, ⁴traitorous, reckless, self-important, loving pleasure more than God, ⁵even having the appearance of piety while rejecting its virtue. And so, avoid them.

³⁶But concerning that day and hour, no one knows, not even the Angels of the heavens, but only the Father.

³⁶And so, be vigilant, praying at all times, so that you may be held worthy to escape from all these things, which are in the future, and to stand before the Son of man.”

¹¹And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and pestilences, and famines, and terrors from heaven; and there will be great signs.

²⁸And after this, it will happen that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy; your elders will dream dreams, and your youths will see visions. ²⁹Moreover, in those days I will pour out my spirit upon my servants and handmaids. ³⁰And I will grant wonders in the sky and on earth: blood and fire and the vapor of smoke. ³¹The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord shall arrive. ³²And it will happen that everyone who will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. For on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and in the remnant whom the Lord will call, there will be salvation, just as the Lord has said.

⁴⁴For this reason, you also must be prepared, for you do not know at what hour the Son of man will return.

²¹For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until the present, and such as will not be. ²²And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days shall be shortened.

⁴²Therefore, be vigilant. For you do not know at what hour your Lord will return.

¹And Jesus departed from the temple and went away. And his disciples approached him, so as to show him the buildings of the temple. ²But he said to them in response: “Do you see all these things? Amen I say to you, there shall not remain here stone upon stone, which is not torn down.” ³Then, when he was seated at the Mount of Olives, the disciples drew near to him privately, saying: “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of your advent and of the consummation of the age?” ⁴And answering, Jesus said to them: “Pay attention, lest someone lead you astray. ⁵For many will come in my name saying, ‘I am the Christ.’ And they will lead many astray. ⁶For you will hear of battles and rumors of battles. Take care not to be disturbed. For these things must be, but the end is not so soon.

¹³But whoever will have persevered until the end, the same shall be saved.

¹⁰Then the day of the Lord shall arrive like a thief. On that day, the heavens shall pass away with great violence, and truly the elements shall be dissolved with heat; then the earth, and the works that are within it, shall be completely burned up. ¹¹Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what kind of people ought you to be? In behavior and in piety, be holy, ¹²waiting for, and hurrying toward, the advent of the day of the Lord, by which the burning heavens shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt from the heat of the fire. ¹³Yet truly, in accord with his promises, we are looking forward to the new heavens and the new earth, in which justice lives.

²¹For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until the present, and such as will not be.

³Know this first: that in the last days there will arrive deceitful mockers, walking according to their own desires, ⁴saying: “Where is his promise or his advent? For from the time that the fathers have slept, all things have continued just as they were from the beginning of creation.” ⁵But they willfully ignore this: that the heavens existed first, and that the earth, from water and through water, was established by the Word of God. ⁶By water, the former world then, having been inundated with water, perished. ⁷But the heavens and the earth that exist now were restored by the same Word, being reserved unto fire on the day of judgment, and unto the perdition of impious men.

¹⁴And this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached throughout the entire world, as a testimony to all nations. And then the consummation will occur.