For certainly no one knows his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.
From one man he has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live.
Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and every living thing I have made I will wipe off the face of the earth.’
But be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place and to stand before the Son of Man.’