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And they will say to you, `See there!' `See here!' Do not start off and go in pursuit.
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For just as the lightning, when it flashes, shines from one part of the horizon to the opposite part, so will the Son of Man be on His day.
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But first He must endure much suffering, and be rejected by the present generation.
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"And as it was in the time of Noah, so will it also be in the time of the Son of Man.
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Men were eating and drinking, taking wives and giving wives, up to the very day on which Noah entered the Ark, and the Deluge came and destroyed them all.
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The same was true in the time of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building;
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but on the day that Lot left Sodom, God rained fire and brimstone from the sky and destroyed them all.
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Exactly so will it be on the day that the veil is lifted from the Son of Man.
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"On that day, if a man is on the roof and his property indoors, let him not go down to fetch it; and, in the same way, he who is in the field, let him not turn back.
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Any man who makes it his object to keep his own life safe, will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.