Matthew 24:44

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb’s bride.”

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

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son,

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

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.

If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for 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.

for as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part under the sky, shines to another part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

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

When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’ ” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”

The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’

The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.

It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.

Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

What I tell you, I tell all: Watch.”

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

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

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

“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.”

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

for their calamity will rise suddenly. Who knows what destruction may come from them both?

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.

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.

Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

and be ready for the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

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;

Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”

Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”

Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.

For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

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.

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

Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.