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and if the Lord did not shorten the days, no flesh had been saved; but because of the chosen, whom He did choose to Himself, He did shorten the days.
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`And then, if any may say to you, Lo, here [is] the Christ, or, Lo, there, ye may not believe;
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for there shall rise false Christs and false prophets, and they shall give signs and wonders, to seduce, if possible, also the chosen;
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and ye, take heed; lo, I have foretold you all things.
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`But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
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and the stars of the heaven shall be falling, and the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken.
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`And then they shall see the Son of Man coming in clouds with much power and glory,
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and then he shall send his messengers, and gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the end of the earth unto the end of heaven.
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`And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: when the branch may already become tender, and may put forth the leaves, ye know that nigh is the summer;
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so ye, also, when these ye may see coming to pass, ye know that it is nigh, at the doors.
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Verily I say to you, that this generation may not pass away till all these things may come to pass;