when the world will end

³²But concerning that day or hour, no one knows, neither the Angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

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

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

³²So, from the fig tree learn a parable. When its branch has now become tender and the leaves have sprung forth, you know that summer is near. ³³So also, when you will have seen all these things, know that it is near, even at the threshold. ³⁴Amen I say to you, that this lineage shall not pass away, until all these things have been done. ³⁵Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. ³⁶But concerning that day and hour, no one knows, not even the Angels of the heavens, but only the Father.

⁴²Therefore, be vigilant. For you do not know at what hour your Lord will return. ⁴³But know this: if only the father of the family knew at what hour the thief would arrive, he would certainly keep vigil and not permit his house to be broken into. ⁴⁴For this reason, you also must be prepared, for you do not know at what hour the Son of man will return.

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

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. ⁷For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be pestilences, and famines, and earthquakes in places. ⁸But all these things are just the beginning of the sorrows. ⁹Then they will hand you over to tribulation, and they will kill you. And you will be hated by all nations for the sake of my name.

¹I saw the new heaven and the new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and the sea is no more. ²And I, John, saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. ³And I heard a great voice from the throne, saying: “Behold the tabernacle of God with men. And he will dwell with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be their God with them. ⁴And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And death shall be no more. And neither mourning, nor crying out, nor grief shall be anymore. For the first things have passed away.” ⁵And the One who was sitting upon the throne, said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And he said to me, “Write, for these words are entirely faithful and true.” ⁶And he said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To those who thirst, I will give freely from the fountain of the water of life.

⁷Behold, he arrives with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, even those who pierced him. And all the tribes of the earth shall lament for themselves over him. Even so. Amen.

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.

²⁵And there will be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars. And there will be, on earth, distress among the Gentiles, out of confusion at the roaring of the sea and of the waves:

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

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?”

⁶But some of the scribes were sitting in that place and thinking in their hearts: ⁷“Why is this man speaking in this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins, but God alone?” ⁸At once, Jesus, realizing in his spirit that they were thinking this within themselves, said to them: “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? ⁹Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up, take up your stretcher, and walk?’ ¹⁰But so that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” he said to the paralytic: ¹¹“I say to you: Rise up, take up your stretcher, and go into your house.”

¹³And so you must be vigilant, because you do not know the day or the hour.

¹Consider, most beloved, this second epistle which I am writing to you, in which I stir up, by admonition, your sincere mind, ²so that you may be mindful of those words that I preached to you from the holy prophets, and of the precepts of the Apostles of your Lord and Savior. 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.

²The Spirit of God may be known in this way. Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has arrived in the flesh is of God; ³and every spirit who contradicts Jesus is not of God. And this one is the Antichrist, the one that you have heard is coming, and even now he is in the world.

²⁴For there will arise false Christs and false prophets. And they will produce great signs and wonders, so much so as to lead into error even the elect (if this could be).

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, in order to make known to his servants the things that must soon occur, and which he signified by sending his Angel to his servant John; ²he has offered testimony to the Word of God, and whatever he saw is the testimony of Jesus Christ. ³Blessed is he who reads or hears the words of this Prophecy, and who keeps the things that have been written in it. For the time is near. ⁴John, to the seven Churches, which are in Asia. Grace and peace to you, from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are in the sight of his throne, ⁵and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the leader over the kings of the earth, who has loved us and has washed us from our sins with his blood, ⁶and who has made us into a kingdom and into priests for God and for his Father. To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

²⁶And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of man. ²⁷They were eating and drinking; they were taking wives and being given in marriage, even until the day that Noah entered the ark. And the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸It shall be similar to what happened in the days of Lot. They were eating and drinking; they were buying and selling; they were planting and building. ²⁹Then, on the day that Lot departed from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and it destroyed them all. ³⁰According to these things, so shall it be in the day when the Son of man will be revealed.