16:1
Watch over your life. Do not allow your lamps to be extinguished or your loins to remain ungirded; remain ready, because you do not know the hour when the Master comes.
16:2
Gather together frequently, seeking what benefits your nefesh, for a whole lifetime of trust will not profit you if you are not found complete at the end.
16:3
In the latter days false nevi'im and corrupters will multiply; sheep will become wolves and love will turn into hatred.
16:4
As lawlessness increases, people will hate, persecute, and betray one another. Then the deceiver of the world will appear as though a son of Elohim, performing signs and wonders, and authority over the earth will be placed into his hands.
16:5
He will commit lawlessness unlike what had been seen before; then the creation of Adam will enter the fire of testing. Many will stumble and perish, but those who endure in trust will be preserved through the curse itself.
16:6
Then the signs of truth will appear: first, an opening or spreading sign in the heavens; second, the sound of the shofar; third, the resurrection of the dead.
16:7
Yet the text says not all at once, but according to the prophetic Word: the Master comes, and the set-apart ones with him.
16:8
Then the world will see the Master coming upon the clouds of the heavens. Witness and Reconstruction Ledger H54 / Codex Hierosolymitanus 54. Principal complete continuous witness; Greek; copied in 1056. It supplies the sequence where no …