The time is short: it remaineth that they that weep be as though they wept not, and they that rejoice as if they rejoiced not, and they that use this world, as if they use it not; for the fashion of this world passeth away. (1 Cor. vii. 30-31.)
Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the time of affliction come, and the years draw nigh of which thou shalt say: They please me not: before the silver cord be loosed, and the golden bowl be broken, and the pitcher be crushed at the fountain, and the wheel be broken upon the cistern, and the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it. (Eccles. xii. 1, 6.)
Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord, when He cometh, shall find watching. (Luke xii. 37.)
JUDGMENT
The Particular and General Judgments
IT IS appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment. (Heb. ix. 27.)
All the hosts of the heavens shall pine away, and the heavens shall be folded together as a book; and all their host shall fall down as the leaf falleth from the vine and from the fig-tree. (Is. xxxiv. 4.)
Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light. And the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be moved. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn. And they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with much power and majesty. And He shall send His angels with a trumpet, and a great voice; and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them. Heaven and earth shall pass, but My words shall not pass. (Matt. xxiv. 29-31, 35.)
