7 Bible Verses about Sudden Events

For we tell you, as the Lord has told us, that we the living, who survive till the Lord comes, are by no means to take precedence of those who have fallen asleep. The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, when the archangel calls and the trumpet of God sounds; the dead in Christ will rise first; then we the living, who survive, will be caught up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall be with the Lord for ever.

For like lightning that shoots from east to west, so will be the arrival of the Son of man.

Watch, in case he comes suddenly and finds you asleep.

Then a host of heaven's army suddenly appeared beside the angel extolling God and saying,

when suddenly there came a sound from heaven like a violent blast of wind, which filled the whole house where they were seated.

As he neared Damascus in the course of his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed round him;

all of a sudden there was a great earthquake which shook the very foundations of the prison; the doors all flew open in an instant and the fetters of all the prisoners were unfastened.