Then he said to his disciples,
“The time is coming
when you will long to see the day
when the Son of Man returns,
but you won’t see it.
People will tell you,
‘Look, there is the Son of Man,’
or ‘Here he is,’
but don’t go out and follow them.
For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky
from one end to the other,
so it will be on the day when the Son of Man comes.
…it will be like it was in Noah’s day.
And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot.
…it will be ‘business as usual’ right up to the day
when the Son of Man is revealed.”
(Steps to Mars Hill where Paul preached in Athens, Greece)