A Volta de Jesus

1 But as to times and dates it is unnecessary that anything be written to you.

2 For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

3 While they are saying »Peace and safety!« then in a moment destruction falls upon them, like birth-pains on a woman who is with child; and escape there is none.

36 »But as to that day and the exact time no one knows–not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.«

37 For as it was in the time of Noah, so it will be at the Coming of the Son of Man.

38 At that time, before the Deluge, men were busy eating and drinking, taking wives or giving them, up to the very day when Noah entered the Ark,

39 nor did they realise any danger till the Deluge came and swept them all away; so will it be at the Coming of the Son of Man.

9 When He had said this, and while they were looking at Him, He was carried up, and a cloud closing beneath Him hid Him from their sight.

10 But, while they stood intently gazing into the sky as He went, suddenly there were two men in white garments standing by them,

11 who said, »Galilaeans, why stand looking into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into Heaven will come in just the same way as you have seen Him going into Heaven.«

11 Since all these things are thus pre-destined to dissolution, what sort of men ought you to be found to be in all holy living and godly conduct,

12 eagerly looking forward to the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens, all ablaze, will be destroyed, and the elements will melt in the fierce heat?

13 But in accordance with His promise we are expecting new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness will dwell.

20 »He who solemnly declares all this says,« Yes, I am coming quickly.' Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

8 But there is one thing, dear friends, which you must not forget. With the Lord one day resembles a thousand years and a thousand years resemble one day.

9 The Lord is not slow in fulfilling His promise, in the sense in which some men speak of slowness. But He bears patiently with you, His desire being that no one should perish but that all should come to repentance.

10 The day of the Lord will come like a thief–it will be a day on which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, the elements be destroyed in the fierce heat, and the earth and all the works of man be utterly burnt up.

16 For the Lord Himself will come down from Heaven with a loud word of command, and with an archangel's voice and the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

17 Afterwards we who are alive and are still on earth will be caught up in their company amid clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

32 »But as to that day or the exact time no one knows–not even the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

26 For whoever shall have been ashamed of me and my teachings, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own and the Father's glory and in that of the holy angels.

1 But with respect to the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to meet Him, we entreat you, brethren,

2 not readily to become unsettled in mind or troubled –either by any pretended spiritual revelation or by any message or letter claiming to have been sent by us– through fancying that the day of the Lord is now here.

3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for that day cannot come without the coming of the apostasy first, and the appearing of the man of sin, the son of perdition, who sets himself against,

4 and exalts himself above, every so-called god' or object of worship, and goes the length of taking his seat in the very temple of God, giving it out that he himself is God.

24 »At that time, however, after that distress, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not shed her light;

25 the stars will be seen falling from the firmament, and the forces which are in the heavens will be disordered and disturbed.

26 And then will they see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

27 Then He will send forth the angels and gather together His chosen People from north, south, east and west, from the remotest parts of the earth and the sky.

2 In my Father's house there are many resting-places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make ready a place for you.

3 And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me, that where I am you also may be.

12 »I am coming quickly; and My reward is with Me, that I may requite every man in accordance with what his conduct has been.

31 »When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then will He sit upon His glorious throne,

32 and all the nations will be gathered into His presence. And He will separate them from one another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;«

33 and will make the sheep stand at His right hand, and the goats at His left.

42 Be on the alert therefore, for you do not know the day on which your Lord is coming.

43 But of this be assured, that if the master of the house had known the hour at which the robber was coming, he would have kept awake, and not have allowed his house to be broken into.

44 Therefore you also must be ready; for it is at a time when you do not expect Him that the Son of Man will come.

27 And since it is reserved for all mankind once to die, and afterwards to be judged;

28 so the Christ also, having been once offered in sacrifice in order that He might bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, separated from sin, to those who are eagerly expecting Him, to make their salvation complete.

11 Then I saw a door open in Heaven, and a white horse appeared. Its rider was named »Faithful and True« –being One who in righteousness acts as Judge, and makes war.

12 His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many kingly crowns; and He has a name written upon Him which no one but He Himself knows.

13 The outer garment in which He is clad has been dipped in blood and His name is THE WORD OF GOD.

14 The armies in Heaven followed Him–mounted on white horses and clothed in fine linen, white and spotless.

15 From His mouth there comes a sharp sword with which He will smite the nations; and He will Himself be their Shepherd, ruling them with a scepter of iron; and it is His work to tread the winepress of the fierce anger of God, the Ruler of all.

16 And on His outer garment and on His thigh He has a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.