28. Where there is a corpse, there will always be vultures.
29. Straight after those days of suffering,“The sun will become dark,and the moonwill no longer shine.The stars will fall,and the powers in the skywill be shaken.”
30. Then a sign will appear in the sky. And there will be the Son of Man. All nations on earth will weep when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31. At the sound of a loud trumpet, he will send his angels to bring his chosen ones together from all over the earth.
32. Learn a lesson from a fig tree. When its branches sprout and start putting out leaves, you know that summer is near.
33. So when you see all these things happening, you will know that the time has almost come.
34. I can promise you that some of the people of this generation will still be alive when all this happens.
35. The sky and the earth won't last for ever, but my words will.
36. No one knows the day or hour. The angels in heaven don't know, and the Son himself doesn't know. Only the Father knows.
37. When the Son of Man appears, things will be just as they were when Noah lived.
38. People were eating, drinking, and getting married right up to the day that the flood came and Noah went into the big boat.