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For just as the lightning flashes in the east and is seen to the very west, so will be the Coming of the Son of Man.
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Wherever the dead body is, there will the vultures flock together.
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"But immediately after those times of distress the sun will be darkened, the moon will not shed her light, the stars will fall from the firmament, and the forces which control the heavens will be disordered and disturbed.
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Then will appear the Sign of the Son of Man in the sky; and then will all the nations of the earth lament, when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with great power and glory.
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And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet-blast, and they will bring together His own People to Him from north, south, east and west--from one extremity of the world to the other.
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"Now learn from the fig-tree the lesson it teaches. As soon as its branches have now become soft and it is bursting into leaf, you all know that summer is near.
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So you also, when you see all these signs, may be sure that He is near--at your very door.
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I tell you in solemn truth that the present generation will certainly not pass away without all these things having first taken place.
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Earth and sky will pass away, but it is certain that my words will not pass away.
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"But as to that day and the exact time no one knows--not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.
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`For as it was in the time of Noah, so it will be at the Coming of the Son of Man.