As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”

Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority;

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Now as to the love of the brethren, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

For it is superfluous for me to write to you about this ministry to the saints;

Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.

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they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.