Page:Pearl Of Great Price (1851).pdf/40

 Son of Man shall come, and he shall send his Angels before him with the great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His Elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Now learn a parable of the fig tree; when his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh at hand; so likewise mine Elect, when they shall see all these things, they shall know that He is near, even at the doors; but of the day, and hour, no one knoweth; no, not the Angels of God in heaven, but my Father only. But as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also at the coming of the Son of Man; for it shall be with them, as it was in the days before the flood; until the day that Noah entered the ark; they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall the coming of the Son of Man be.

Then shall be fulfilled that which is written, that in the last days, two shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left; and what I say unto one, I say unto all men, watch therefore, for ye know not at what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to have been broken up, but would have been ready. Therefore be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh.

Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his Lord when he cometh, shall find so doing; and verily I say unto you, he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, my Lord delayeth his coming, and shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken, the Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and shall appoint him his portion with the hypocrites, and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, and then cometh the end of the wicked according to the prophecy of Moses, saying, they shall be cut off from among the people; but the end of the earth is not yet, but by and by."