Book of Common Prayer

But You Know The Day of The Lord Will Come Like a Thief In The Night. Keep Watching

5 But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything should be written to you. ² For you yourselves accurately know that the day of the Lord comes in this manner— like a thief in the night. ³ When they are saying “peace and security”, then unexpected^[a] destruction suddenly-comes-upon^[b] them, just as the birth-pain on the one having a child in the womb. And they will by no means escape. ⁴ But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that the day should overtake you like a thief. ⁵ For you all are sons of ^[c] light and sons of day. We are not of night, nor of darkness. ⁶ So then, let us not be sleeping like the others, but let us be keeping-watch^[d] and being sober. ⁷ For the ones sleeping are sleeping at night. And the ones getting-drunk are-drunk at night. ⁸ But let us, being of the day, be sober, having put on a breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet: the hope of salvation. ⁹ Because God did not appoint^[e] us for wrath, but for the obtaining^[f] of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ— ¹⁰ the One having died for us in order that whether we are keeping-watch or sleeping^[g], we may live together with Him. ¹¹ Therefore be encouraging one another and building-up one the other, just as you are also doing.

And You Will See Days of Vengeance And Wrath Against This People

²⁰ “But when you see Jerusalem being surrounded by army-encampments, then recognize that her desolation has drawn-near. ²¹ Then^[a] let the ones in Judea be fleeing to the mountains. And let the ones in the midst of her^[b] be going-out. And let the ones in the fields not be entering into her. ²² Because these are days of vengeance, that all the things having been written may be fulfilled. ²³ Woe to the ones having a child in the womb, and to the ones nursing in those days. For there will be a great distress^[c] upon the land, and wrath against this people. ²⁴ And they will fall by the edge of the sword. And they will be taken-captive to all the nations. And Jerusalem will be being trampled^[d] by the Gentiles^[e] until which time the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Then They Will See The Son Coming On The Clouds With Great Glory

²⁵ “And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on earth the anguish of nations in perplexity about the roar of the sea and wave-tossing— ²⁶ people fainting^[f] from fear and the expectation of the things coming-upon the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken. ²⁷ And then^[g] they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. ²⁸ Now [when] these things [are] beginning to take place, straighten-up and lift-up your heads, because your redemption is drawing-near”.