…in the last days scoffers will come,
mocking the truth and following their own desires.
They will say,
“What happened to the promise
that Jesus is coming again?…”
But the day of the Lord will come
as unexpectedly as a thief.
Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise,
and the very elements themselves
will disappear in fire,
and the earth and everything on it
will be found to deserve judgment.
