³⁰ And then ^(A)the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see ^(B)the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. ³¹ And ^(C)He will send forth His angels with ^(D)a great trumpet blast, and they will gather together His ^[a](E)elect from ^(F)the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

²⁶ And then they will see ^(A)the Son of Man ^(B)coming in clouds with great power and glory. ²⁷ And then He will send forth the angels, and ^(C)will gather together His ^[a]elect from the four winds, ^(D)from the end of the earth to the end of heaven.

The Ascension

⁹ And after He had said these things, ^(A)He was lifted up while they were watching, and a cloud took Him up, out of their sight. ¹⁰ And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, then behold, ^(B)two men in white clothing stood beside them, ¹¹ and they said, “^(C)Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who ^(D)has been taken up from you into heaven, will ^(E)come in the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.”

⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for ^(A)the trumpet will sound, and ^(B)the dead will be raised ^[a]imperishable, and ^(C)we will be changed.

¹⁶ For the Lord ^(A)Himself ^(B)will descend from heaven with a ^[a](C)shout, with the voice of ^(D)the archangel and with the ^(E)trumpet of God, and ^(F)the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ Then ^(G)we who are alive, who remain, will be ^(H)caught up together with them ^(I)in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always ^(J)be with the Lord.

Man of Lawlessness

2 Now we ask you, ^(A)brothers and sisters, regarding the ^[a](B)coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our ^(C)gathering together to Him,

The Seventh Trumpet: Christ’s Reign Foreseen

¹⁵ Then the ^(A)seventh angel sounded; and there were ^(B)loud voices in heaven, saying,

“^(C)The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of ^(D)His ^[a]Christ; and ^(E)He will reign forever and ever.” ¹⁶ And the twenty-four elders, who ^(F)sit on their thrones before God, ^(G)fell on their faces and worshiped God, ¹⁷ saying,

“We give You thanks, ^(H)Lord God, the Almighty, the One who is and who was, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to ^(I)reign. ¹⁸ And ^(J)the nations were enraged, and ^(K)Your wrath came, and ^(L)the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to ^[b]reward Your ^(M)bond-servants the prophets and the ^[c]saints and those who fear Your name, ^(N)the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

The Harvest

¹⁴ Then I looked, and behold, a ^(A)white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was one ^(B)like ^[a]a son of man, with a golden ^(C)crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand. ¹⁵ And another angel ^(D)came out of the ^[b]temple, calling out with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, “^[c](E)Put in your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come, because the ^(F)harvest of the earth ^[d]is ripe.” ¹⁶ Then He who sat on the cloud ^[e]swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.