⁷ Behold, ^(A)he is coming with the clouds, and ^(B)every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail^[a] on account of him. Even so. Amen.

The Son of Man Is Given Dominion

¹³ “I saw in the night visions,

¹⁴ to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until ^(A)the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁰ And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, ^(A)two ^(B)men stood by them in ^(C)white robes, ¹¹ and said, ^(D)“Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, ^(E)will ^(F)come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you ^(A)to myself, that ^(B)where I am you may be also.

² For you yourselves are fully aware that ^(A)the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

¹³ so that he may ^(A)establish your hearts blameless in holiness before ^(B)our God and Father, at ^(C)the coming of our Lord Jesus ^(D)with all his saints.

¹⁶ For ^(A)the Lord himself will descend ^(B)from heaven ^(C)with a cry of command, with the voice of ^(D)an archangel, and ^(E)with the sound of the trumpet of God. And ^(F)the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ Then we who are alive, who are left, will be ^(G)caught up together with them ^(H)in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so ^(I)we will always be with the Lord.

⁴⁴ Therefore you also must be ^(A)ready, for ^(B)the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.