• Day of the Lord
  • The day of the Lord (Acts 2:20; 1 Cor 5:5; 1 Thess 5:2; 2 Thess 2:2, 3; 2 Pet 3:10)
  • Day of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Cor 1:8)
  • Day of the Lord Jesus (2 Cor 1:14)
  • Day of Jesus Christ (Phil 1:6)
  • Day of Christ (Phil 1:10; Phil 2:16)
  • His Day (Lk 17:24)
• That day (Mt 24:36; Mark 13:32; Luke 21:34; 1 Thess 5:4; 2 Thess 1:10; 2 Tim 1:12; 2 Tim 4:8)
• Day of visitation (1 Pet 2:12)
• Last day (Jn 6:39; Jn 6:40; Jn 11:24; Jn 12:48)
• Day of judgment (2 Pet 3:7; 1 Jn 4:17)

• Coming of Lord Jesus Christ
  • Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Thess 3:13; 1 Thess 5:23; 2 Thess 2:1; 2 Pet 1:16)
  • Coming of the Son of Man (Mt 24:27, 30, 37, 39, 44; 26:64; Mk 13:26; 14:62; Lk 12:40; 21:27)
  • Coming of the Lord (Jas 5:8)
  • Coming of Lord Jesus (1 Thess 2:19; 2 Thess 2:8)
  • [Christ’s] coming (1 Cor 15:23)
  • Son of Man coming in his kingdom (Mt 16:28)
• His coming (2 Pet 3:4; 1 Jn 2:28)
• Coming of the day of God (2 Pet 3:12)

• Appearance of Jesus Christ
  • Christ will appear a second time (Heb 9:28)
  • Appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ (Col 3:4; 1 Tim 6:14; 2 Tim 4:1)
• When he appears (1 Jn 2:28; 1 Jn 3:2)
• When the chief Shepherd appears (1 Pet 5:4)
• The appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ (Tit 2:13)

• The revelation of Jesus Christ (1 Pet 1:7, 13)
• Revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Cor 1:7; 2 Thess 1:7)
• Day when the Son of Man is revealed (Lk 17:30)

• Last time (1 Pet 1:5)
• Time for restoring all things (Acts 3:21)

Questions from people

• Peter, James, John and Andrew question when and what are signs of his coming and the close of the age (Mt 24:3; Mk 13:3-4; Lk 21:7)
• Pharisees question when the kingdom of God would come (Lk 17:20)
• People’s anticipation that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately (Lk 19:11)

Parables and analogies

• Lightning (Mt 24:27; Lk 17:24)
• Fig Tree (Mt 24:32-33; Lk 21:29-32)
• Faithful and Wicked Servant (Mt 24:45-51; Lk 12:42-48)
• Bridegroom and Ten Virgins (Mt 25:1-13)
• Talents (Mt 25:14-30)
• Shepherd Separating the Sheep from Goats (Mt 25:31-46)
• Doorkeeper for Man Going on Journey (Mk 13:34-37)
• Servants Waiting for Man to Return from Wedding Feast (Lk 12:35-40)
• 10 Minas (Lk 19:11-27)

In Revelation

• Rev 3:11 – I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.
• Rev 16:15 – (“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”)
• Rev 22:7 – “And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
• Rev 22:12 – “Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done.
• Rev 22:20 – He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!

Will come unexpectedly

• As a thief

  • Mt 24:43 – But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.
  • Mt 24:44 – Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
  • Lk 12:39 – But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.
  • Lk 12:40 – You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
  • 1 Thess 5:2 – For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
  • 1 Thess 5:4 – But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
  • 2 Pet 3:10 – But the day of the Lord will come like a thief
  • Rev 16:15 – (“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”)

• As master returning home

  • Mt 24:50 – the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know
  • Mk 13:35 – Therefore stay awake–for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the cock crows, or in the morning–
  • Mk 13:36 – lest he come suddenly and find you asleep.
  • Lk 12:36 – and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks.
  • Lk 12:46 – the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.

• As the days of Noah

  • Mt 24:37 – As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
  • Mt 24:38 – For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,
  • Mt 24:39 – and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
  • Lk 17:26 – Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.
  • Lk 17:27 – They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

• As in the days of Lot

  • Lk 17:28 – Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot–they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,
  • Lk 17:29 – but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all–
  • Lk 17:30 – so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

• As labor pains

  • 1 Thess 5:3 – While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Will be soon

• Rom 13:11 – Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.
• Rom 13:12 – The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.
• Phil 4:5 – Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;
• Heb 10:37 – For, “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay;
• Jas 5:8 – You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
• Jas 5:9 – Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.
• 1 Pet 4:7 – The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
• Rev 3:11 – I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.
• Rev 22:7 – “And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
• Rev 22:12 – “Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done.
• Rev 22:20 – He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!

Misconceptions

• Some think he will delay
  • Mt 24:48 – But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’
  • Mt 24:49 – and begins to beat his fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards,
  • Mt 24:50 – the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know
  • Mt 24:51 – and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Lk 12:45 – But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,
  • Lk 12:46 – the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.
  • 1 Thess 5:3 – While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
  • 2 Pet 3:3 – knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.
  • 2 Pet 3:4 – They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”

• Some consider to be slow

  • 2 Pet 3:9 – The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

We do not know when it will be

• Mt 24:36 – But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
• Mt 24:42 – Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
• Mt 24:50 – the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know
• Mt 25:13 – Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
• Mk 13:32 – But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
• Mk 13:35 – Therefore stay awake–for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the cock crows, or in the morning

At the proper time

• 1 Tim 6:15 – which he will display at the proper time–he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

Time of tribulation

• Mt 24:9 – “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.
• Mt 24:10 – And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.
• Mt 24:11 – And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.
• Mt 24:13 – But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
• Mt 24:15 – “So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
• Mt 24:16 – then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
• Mt 24:17 – Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house,
• Mt 24:18 – and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak.
• Mt 24:19 – And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!
• Mt 24:20 – Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.
• Mt 24:21 – For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.
• Mt 24:22 – And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
• Mt 24:30 – Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
• Mk 13:9 – “But be on your guard. For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them.
• Mk 13:10 – And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations.
• Mk 13:11 – And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
• Mk 13:12 – And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death.
• Mk 13:13 – And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
• Mk 13:14 – “But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
• Mk 13:15 – Let the one who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter his house, to take anything out,
• Mk 13:16 – and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak.
• Mk 13:17 – And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!
• Mk 13:18 – Pray that it may not happen in winter.
• Mk 13:19 – For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will be.
• Mk 13:20 – And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
• Lk 17:31 – On that day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back.
• Lk 17:34 – I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left.
• Lk 17:35 – There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left.”
• Lk 17:37 – And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.”
• Lk 21:12 – But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake.
• Lk 21:13 – This will be your opportunity to bear witness.
• Lk 21:14 – Settle it therefore in your minds not to meditate beforehand how to answer,
• Lk 21:15 – for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
• Lk 21:16 – You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.
• Lk 21:17 – You will be hated by all for my name’s sake.
• Lk 21:18 – But not a hair of your head will perish.
• Lk 21:19 – By your endurance you will gain your lives.
• Lk 21:23 – Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people.
• Lk 21:26 – people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
• Rev 3:10 – Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.

Cosmic signs

• Isa 13:10 – For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.
• Joel 2:30 – And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
• Joel 2:31 – The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.
• Mt 24:29 – “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
• Mt 24:30 – Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
• Mk 13:24 – But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light
• Mk 13:25 – and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
• Lk 21:25 – “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves,
• Lk 21:26 – people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
• Acts 2:19 – And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke;
• Acts 2:20 – the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day.
• 2 Pet 3:10 – But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
• 2 Pet 3:12 – waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!
• Rev 6:12 – When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,
• Rev 6:13 – and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.
• Rev 6:14 – The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

False christs and false prophets

• Mt 24:5 – For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.
• Mt 24:11 – And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.
• Mt 24:23 – Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it.
• Mt 24:24 – For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
• Mk 13:6 – Many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and they will lead many astray.
• Mk 13:21 – And then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it.
• Mk 13:22 – False christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect.
• Lk 21:8 – And he said, “See that you are not led astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time is at hand!’ Do not go after them.
• 2 Thess 2:3 – Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,
• 2 Thess 2:4 – who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
• 2 Thess 2:9 – The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,
• 2 Thess 2:10 – and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
• 2 Thess 2:11 – Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false,
• 2 Thess 2:12 – in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
• 2 Pet 2:1 – But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

Evil increases

• Mt 24:12 – And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.
• 2 Tim 3:1 – But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.
• 2 Tim 3:2 – For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
• 2 Tim 3:3 – heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
• 2 Tim 3:4 – treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
• 2 Tim 3:5 – having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
• 2 Tim 3:6 – For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,
• 2 Pet 3:3 – knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.

Gospel is preached all over the earth

• Mt 24:14 – And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
• Mk 13:10 – And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations.
• Rev 14:6 – Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
• Rev 14:7 – And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

War

• Mt 24:6 – And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.
• Mt 24:7 – For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
• Mk 13:7 – And when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. This must take place, but the end is not yet.
• Mk 13:8 – For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.
• Lk 21:9 – And when you hear of wars and tumults, do not be terrified, for these things must first take place, but the end will not be at once.
• Lk 21:10 – Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

Earthquakes, famine, pestilences

• Mt 24:7 – For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
• Mk 13:8 – For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.
• Lk 21:11 – There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

Manner of the Son of Man’s coming

• With angels

  • Deut 33:2 – He said, “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran; he came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand.
  • Zech 14:5 – And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
  • Mt 16:27 – For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
  • Mt 25:31 – When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
  • Mk 8:38 – For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
  • Lk 9:26 – For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
  • 1 Thess 4:16 – For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
  • 2 Thess 1:7 – and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angel
  • Jude 1:14 – It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones

• In glory

  • Mt 16:27 – For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
  • Mt 24:30 – Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
  • Mt 25:31 – When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
  • Mk 8:38 – For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
  • Mk 13:26 – And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.
  • Lk 9:26 – For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
  • Lk 21:27 – And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
  • Tit 2:13 – waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
  • Jude 1:24 – Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy

• With the clouds

  • Dan 7:13 – I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.
  • Mt 24:30 – Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
  • Mt 26:64 – Jesus said to him, “You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
  • Mk 14:62 – And Jesus said, “I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”
  • Lk 21:27 – And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
  • Rev 1:7 – Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.

• With fire

  • Deut 33:2 – He said, “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran; he came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand.
  • Ps 50:3 – Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest.
  • Isa 66:15 – “For behold, the LORD will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
  • Isa 66:16 – For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many.
  • 2 Thess 1:7 – and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels
  • 2 Thess 1:8 – in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

• As lightning

  • Mt 24:27 – For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
  • Lk 17:24 – For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

• From heaven

  • Acts 1:11 – and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
  • 1 Thess 4:16 – For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

• With the sound of the trumpet

  • 1 Cor 15:52 – in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
  • 1 Thess 4:16 – For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

The heavens and earth will pass away

• Isa 34:4 – All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.
• 2 Pet 3:10 – But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
• 2 Pet 3:12 – waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!
• 2 Pet 3:13 – But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
• Rev 20:11 – Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.
• Rev 21:1 – Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
• Rev 6:14 – The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

Resurrection

• Lk 20:35 – but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,
• Jn 5:25 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
• Jn 6:39 – And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
• Jn 6:40 – For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
• Jn 6:44 – No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
• Jn 6:54 – Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
• 1 Cor 15:21 – For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
• 1 Cor 15:22 – For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
• 1 Cor 15:23 – But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
• 1 Thess 4:16 – For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
• Death is destroyed
  • Lk 20:36 – for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
  • 1 Cor 15:25 – For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
  • 1 Cor 15:26 – The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
  • 1 Cor 15:54 – When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
  • 1 Cor 15:55 – “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

Transformation into spiritual body

• Rom 8:23 – And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
• 1 Cor 15:42 – So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
• 1 Cor 15:43 – It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
• 1 Cor 15:44 – It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
• 1 Cor 15:50 – I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
• 1 Cor 15:51 – Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
• 1 Cor 15:52 – in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
• 1 Cor 15:53 – For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
• Phil 3:21 – who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
• 1 Jn 3:2 – Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

Believers caught up in the clouds

• 1 Thess 4:15 – For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep
• 1 Thess 4:17 – Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

Believers will boast

• 2 Cor 1:14 – just as you did partially acknowledge us, that on the day of our Lord Jesus you will boast of us as we will boast of you.
• 1 Thess 2:19 – For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?

Son of Man will judge all

• Mt 13:49 – So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous
• Mt 16:27 – For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
• Mt 25:31 – “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
• Mt 25:32 – Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
• Jn 5:27 – And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
• Jn 5:28 – Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
• Jn 5:29 – and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
• Jn 12:48 – The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
• 1 Cor 4:5 – Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
• 2 Cor 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
• 2 Tim 4:1 – I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom
• Jude 1:15 – to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

Results of judgment

• For the righteous

  • Glory

    • Mt 13:43 – Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
    • Col 3:4 – When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
    • 1 Pet 5:1 – So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:
    • 1 Pet 5:4 – And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

  • Salvation

    • Heb 9:28 – so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
    • 1 Pet 1:5 – who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

  • Eternal life

    • Mt 25:46 – the righteous into eternal life
    • Jn 6:54 – Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

  • Crown

    • 2 Tim 4:8 – Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
    • 1 Pet 5:4 – And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

  • Always be with the Lord

    • Jn 14:3 – And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
    • 1 Thess 4:17 – Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord

  • Confidence

    • 1 Jn 2:28 – And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.
    • 1 Jn 4:17 – By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.

  • Praise

    • 1 Cor 4:5 – Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
    • 1 Pet 1:7 – so that the tested genuineness of your faith–more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire–may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

  • Mercy

    • 2 Tim 1:18 – may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that Day!–and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus.

  • Relief

    • 2 Thess 1:7 – and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels

• For those who believe

  • John 5:24 – “whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life”
  • 1 Thess 4:14 – “for since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep”
  • 2 Thess 1:10 – when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

• For those who overcome

  • Rev 3:12 – The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.
  • Rev 21:7 – The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

• For those who have done good

  • Jn 5:28 – Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
  • Jn 5:29 – and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

• For those who follow Jesus

  • Mk 8:34 – And he called to him the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
  • Mk 9:1 – And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”

• For the evil

  • Punishment in fire
    • Mal 4:1 – “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
    • Mt 13:40 – Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age.
    • Mt 13:41 – The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers,
    • Mt 13:42 – and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
    • Mt 13:50 – and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
    • Mt 24:51 – and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
    • Mt 25:41 – “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
    • Mt 25:46 – And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
    • 2 Thess 1:8 – in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
    • Rev 19:20 – And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
    • Rev 21:8 – But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
  • Judgment
    • Jn 5:28 – Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
    • Jn 5:29 – and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
    • Jude 1:15 – to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
  • Denial by the Lord
    • Mt 7:21 – “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
    • Mt 7:22 – On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’
    • Mt 7:23 – And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
    • Mt 25:11 – Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’
    • Mt 25:12 – But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’
    • Mk 8:38 – For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
    • Lk 9:26 – For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
    • Lk 13:25 – When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’
    • Lk 13:26 – Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’
    • Lk 13:27 – But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’
  • Eternal separation from the Lord
    • 2 Thess 1:9 – They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might

• For the lawless one

  • 2 Thess 2:8 – And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.

Christ receives dominion and a kingdom

• Dan 7:14 – And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.
• Lk 23:42 – And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
• 2 Tim 4:1 – I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom

Christ delivers the kingdom to God

• 1 Cor 15:24 – Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.

His coming is declared by angels

• Acts 1:11 – and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

Do not know hour of His coming

• Mt 24:36 – “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
• Mk 13:32 – But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Role during His coming

• Accompany Son of Man at his coming

  • Deut 33:2 – He said, “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran; he came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand.
  • Zech 14:5 – And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
  • Mt 16:27 – For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
  • Mt 25:31 – When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
  • Mk 8:38 – For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
  • Lk 9:26 – For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
  • 1 Thess 4:16 – For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
  • 2 Thess 1:7 – and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angel
  • Jude 1:14 – It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones

• Separate the evil from the righteous

  • Mt 13:49 – So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous
  • Mt 24:31 – And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
  • Mk 13:27 – And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.

From parables

• Be faithful over what you have been entrusted

  • Mt 24:45 – “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?
  • Mt 25:21 – His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
  • Mt 25:23 – His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
  • Lk 12:42 – And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time?
  • Lk 19:17 – And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’

• Be wise

  • Mt 24:45 – “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?
  • Mt 25:3 – For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,
  • Mt 25:4 – but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.
  • Mt 25:8 – And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’
  • Mt 25:9 – But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’

• Care for the brethren

  • Mt 25:35 – For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
  • Mt 25:36 – I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’
  • Mt 25:37 – Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?
  • Mt 25:38 – And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?
  • Mt 25:39 – And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’
  • Mt 25:40 – And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

• Do work as assigned

  • Mt 24:45 – “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?
  • Mt 24:46 – Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.
  • Mk 13:34 – It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake.
  • Lk 12:42 – And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time?
  • Lk 12:43 – Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.

• Use well the talents that are given

  • Mt 25:26 – But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sowed and gather where I scattered no seed?
  • Mt 25:27 – Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.
  • Lk 12:47 – And that servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.

• Blessing

  • Mt 24:46 – Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.
  • Mt 25:34 – Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
  • Lk 12:37 – Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.
  • Lk 12:38 – If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants!

• Reward for servants who use talents well

  • Mt 25:28 – So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.
  • Mt 25:29 – For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
  • Lk 12:48 – But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
  • Lk 19:26 – ‘I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away

• Reward for servants who are found to be ready

  • Mt 25:10 – And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.
    Lk 12:37 – Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.

Exhortations

• Eagerly await the coming

  • Mk 15:43 – Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the Council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
  • Lk 12:36 – and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks.
  • Lk 23:51 – who had not consented to their decision and action; and he was looking for the kingdom of God.
  • Rom 8:23 – And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
  • Rom 8:25 – But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
  • 1 Cor 1:7 – so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ
  • Phil 3:20 – But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
  • 1 Thess 1:10 – and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
  • Tit 2:13 – waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ
  • Heb 9:28 – so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
  • 1 Pet 1:6 – In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials
  • 1 Pet 1:7 – so that the tested genuineness of your faith–more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire–may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Pet 3:12 – waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!
  • Jude 1:21 – keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
  • Rev 22:20 – He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!

• Watch, stay awake, be aware

  • Mt 24:37 – As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
  • Mt 24:38 – For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,
  • Mt 24:39 – and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
  • Mt 24:42 – Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
  • Mt 24:43 – But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.
  • Mt 24:44 – Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
  • Mt 25:13 – Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
  • Mk 13:35 – Therefore stay awake–for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the cock crows, or in the morning–
  • Mk 13:37 – And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake.
  • Lk 12:37 – Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.
  • Lk 12:38 – If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants!
  • Lk 12:39 – But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.
  • Lk 21:34 – But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.
  • Lk 21:35 – For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
  • Lk 21:36 – But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
  • 1 Thess 5:6 – So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.
  • Rev 16:15 – (“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”)

• Be prepared, be ready

  • Mt 24:44 – Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
  • Mt 25:10 – And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.
  • Mk 13:9 – But be on your guard. For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them.
  • Mk 13:23 – But be on guard; I have told you all things beforehand.
  • Mk 13:33 – Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come.
  • Lk 12:35 – Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning,
  • Lk 12:36 – and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks.
  • Lk 12:40 – You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
  • Lk 12:46 – the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.
  • Lk 12:47 – And that servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.
  • 1 Pet 1:13 – Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Pet 3:4 – They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”

• Do not be surprised

  • Mt 24:6 – And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.
  • Mt 24:25 – See, I have told you beforehand.
  • Mk 13:7 – And when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. This must take place, but the end is not yet.
  • Mk 13:23 – But be on guard; I have told you all things beforehand.
  • Jn 5:28 – Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
  • 1 Thess 5:2 – For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
  • 1 Thess 5:3 – While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
  • 1 Thess 5:4 – But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
  • 2 Thess 2:1 – Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers
  • 2 Thess 2:2 – not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
  • 2 Thess 2:5 – Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?

• Be holy and blameless

  • Romans 13:11 – Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.
  • Romans 13:12 – The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.
  • Romans 13:13 – Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.
  • Romans 13:14 – But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
  • 1 Cor 1:8 – who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Thess 3:13 – so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
  • 1 Thess 5:23 – Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Pet 1:14 – As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
  • 1 Pet 1:15 – but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
  • 2 Pet 3:11 – Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,
  • 2 Pet 3:14 – Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
  • 1 John 3:2 – Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
  • 1 John 3:3 – And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
  • Jude 1:24 – Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,

• Do not be led astray

  • Mt 24:4 – And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray.
  • Mt 24:24 – For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
  • Mt 24:25 – See, I have told you beforehand.
  • Mk 13:5 – And Jesus began to say to them, “See that no one leads you astray.
  • Mk 13:6 – Many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and they will lead many astray.
  • Lk 21:8 – And he said, “See that you are not led astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time is at hand!’ Do not go after them.
  • 2 Thess 2:3 – Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction

• Be patient and endure

  • Mt 24:13 – But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
  • Lk 21:19 – By your endurance you will gain your lives.
  • Rom 8:25 – But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
  • 2 Tim 4:2 – preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
  • Jas 5:7 – Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.
  • Jas 5:8 – You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
  • Rev 3:10 – Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.

• Have faith

  • Lk 18:8 – I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?
  • Heb 10:35 – Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
  • Heb 10:36 – For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
  • Heb 10:37 – For, “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay;
  • Heb 10:38 – but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
  • Heb 10:39 – But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 – so that the tested genuineness of your faith–more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire–may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

• Do not be ashamed of Jesus

  • Mk 8:38 – For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
  • Lk 9:26 – For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 – which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.

• Be self-controlled and sober-minded

  • 2 Tim 4:5 – As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
  • 1 Pet 1:13 – Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 – The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.

• Keep the commandment

  • 1 Tim 6:14 – to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  • 1 Tim 6:15 – which he will display at the proper time–he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

• Have hope

  • Rom 8:25 – But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
  • 1 Thess 4:13 – But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

• Hold fast

  • Rev 2:25 – Only hold fast what you have until I come.
  • Rev 3:11 – I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.

• Do according to his will

  • Mt 7:21 – “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
  • Lk 12:47 – And that servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.

• Increase and remain in love

  • 1 Thess 3:12 – and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,
  • Jude 1:21 – keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

• Meet together; encourage one another

  • 1 Thess 4:18 – Therefore encourage one another with these words.
  • Heb 10:25 – not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

• Preach the word; reprove, rebuke, exhort

  • 2 Tim 4:2 – preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
  • 2 Tim 4:5 – As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

• Proclaim the Lord’s death

  • 1 Cor 11:26 – For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

• Cast off works of evil

  • Rom 13:12 – The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

• Set hope completely on God’s grace

  • 1 Pet 1:13 – Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

• Be at peace

  • 2 Pet 3:14 – Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.

• Be reasonable

  • Phil 4:5 – Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;

• Be steadfast, immovable; abound in the work of God

  • 1 Cor 15:58 – Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

• Do not grumble against one another

  • Jas 5:9 – Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.

• Rejoice in suffering

  • 1 Pet 4:13 – But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

• Abide in Him

  • 1 Jn 2:28 – And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.

• Keep the words

  • Rev 22:7 – “And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”