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People will tell you, ‘Look, there is the Son of Man,’ or ‘Here he is,’ but don’t go out and follow them.
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For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so it will be on the day when the Son of Man comes.
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But first the Son of Man must suffer terribly and be rejected by this generation.
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“When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah’s day.
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In those days, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and the flood came and destroyed them all.
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“And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business—eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building—
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until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
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Yes, it will be ‘business as usual’ right up to the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
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On that day a person out on the deck of a roof must not go down into the house to pack. A person out in the field must not return home.