Didache 16

1Keep watch over your life.a Do not let your lamps be quenched, and do not let your loins be loosened,b but be ready, for you do not know the hour in which our Lord is coming.

2And gather together often, seeking the things that are fitting for your souls; for the whole time of your faith will not profit you unless you are perfected in the last time.

3For in the last days false prophets and corrupters will be multiplied, and the sheep will be turned into wolves, and love will be turned into hatred.

4For as lawlessness increases, they will hate one another and persecute and betray one another, and then the world-deceiver will appear as a son of God and will do signs and wonders, and the earth will be delivered into his hands, and he will do unlawful things such as have never happened from the beginning of the age.

5Then the human creation will come into the fire of testing, and many will be caused to stumble and will perish, but those who endure in their faith will be saved by the curse itself.

6And then the signs of the truth will appear: first, a sign of an opening in heaven; then a sign of the sound of a trumpet; and the third, the resurrection of the dead—

7but not of all, but as it was said: The Lord will come, and all the holy ones with him.

8Then the world will see the Lord coming upon the clouds of heaven.j