24. For false Messiahs and false prophets will appear; they will perform great miracles and wonders in order to deceive even God's chosen people, if possible.
25. Listen! I have told you this before the time comes.
26. “Or, if people should tell you, ‘Look, he is out in the desert!’ — don't go there; or if they say, ‘Look, he is hiding here!’ — don't believe it.
27. For the Son of Man will come like the lightning which flashes across the whole sky from the east to the west.
28. “Wherever there is a dead body, the vultures will gather.
29. “Soon after the trouble of those days, the sun will grow dark, the moon will no longer shine, the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers in space will be driven from their courses.