024:023 "If at that time any one should say to you, `See, here is
the Christ!' or `Here!' give no credence to it.
024:024 For there will rise up false Christs and false prophets,
displaying wonderful signs and prodigies, so as to deceive,
were it possible, even God's own People.
024:025 Remember, I have forewarned you.
024:026 If therefore they should say to you, `See, He is in the Desert!'
do not go out there: or `See, He is indoors in the room!'
do not believe it.
024:027 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.
024:028 Wherever the dead body is, there will the vultures flock together.
024:029 "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.
024:030 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.
024:031 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.
024:032 "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.
024:033 So you also, when you see all these signs, may be sure that He
is near--at your very door.
024:034 I tell you in solemn truth that the present generation will