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He said it will be just like it was in the days of Noah: Matthew 24:40-41 NKJV “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat both the earth and the works that’s are in it will be burned up.”Īnd here is a key sign Jesus gave us to look for. “For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.” 2 Peter 3:10 Blessed is he who watches … ” 1 Thessalonians 5:2
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42 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.Ĥ3 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.Ĥ4 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”įour times in the New Testament (NT) the return of Jesus is likened to a thief in the night-2 times by Jesus himself, once by Paul and once by Peter. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left. 40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. 38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.