⁷ He replied, “It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.^(A)

The Necessity for Watchfulness

³⁶ “But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son,^[a] but only the Father.

5 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers and sisters, you do not need to have anything written to you.^{(A) 2} For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.^(B)

The Necessity for Watchfulness

³² “But about that day or hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father.^(A)

⁴⁰ but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to appoint, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”

²⁹ The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.

¹⁰ as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.^(A)

²⁴ they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captives among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the times of the nations are fulfilled.^(A)

Godlessness in the Last Days

3 You must understand this, that in the last days distressing times will come.