Matthew 25:6

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Summary

Matthew 25:6

And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

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Revelation 16:15

A cry

Behold

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Revelation 19:7

General references

Luke 12:38

Bible References

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Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come.

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'

Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers,you have no need to have anything written to you.

("Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!")

A cry

And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

Behold

"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest.

before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.

before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels

It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones,

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"Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.

It will be said on that day, "Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the LORD; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation."

"Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!"

"Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts.

Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready;

General references

If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants!