Luke 12:38

But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them,

They came near to the village where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.”

The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”

Moses said, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘About midnight I will go out into the middle of Egypt,

Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.

So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.

On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him, and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.

before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.

Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

But you are the same. Your years will have no end.

He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

“Therefore thus I will do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.

When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him,

But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.

In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.

He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come.

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’

While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.

Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”

For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.

Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.

But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.

On the next day, we who were Paul’s companions departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, “Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him.”

He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”

But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.

When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

seeing that you can verify that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.

Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land.

The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky,

The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, “Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.”

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.

So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;

You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years won’t fail.”