(Matt. 24:32-36; Mark 13:28-32; Luke 21:29-35) Now learn a parable from the fig tree: when the branch thereof is now tender, and the leaves come forth, and all the trees now put forth their fruit, you know that summer is nigh: so you also, when you shall see all these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors. Amen I say to you, that this generation shall not pass till all these things be done. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly. For as a snare shall it come upon all that sit upon the face of the whole earth.
Watch ye therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come, and to stand before the Son of man. For you know not when the time is. But of that day and hour no one knoweth, neither the Son, nor the angels in heaven, but the Father alone.