⁴² “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.^{(A) 43} But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming,^(B) he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴ So you also must be ready,^(C) because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

² for you know very well that the day of the Lord^(A) will come like a thief in the night.^{(B) 3} While people are saying, “Peace and safety,”^(C) destruction will come on them suddenly,^(D) as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.^(E)

⁴ But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness^(F) so that this day should surprise you like a thief.^{(G) 5} You are all children of the light^(H) and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. ⁶ So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep,^(I) but let us be awake^(J) and sober.^(K)

¹² The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates,^(A) and its water was dried up to prepare the way^(B) for the kings from the East.^{(C) 13} Then I saw three impure spirits^(D) that looked like frogs;^(E) they came out of the mouth of the dragon,^(F) out of the mouth of the beast^(G) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.^{(H) 14} They are demonic spirits^(I) that perform signs,^(J) and they go out to the kings of the whole world,^(K) to gather them for the battle^(L) on the great day^(M) of God Almighty.

¹⁶ Then they gathered the kings together^(Q) to the place that in Hebrew^(R) is called Armageddon.^(S)