Noah

“But of that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son,* but the Father alone. For as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. In [those] days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day that Noah entered the ark. They did not know until the flood came and carried them all away. So will it be [also] at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be out in the field; one will be taken, and one will be left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken, and one will be left. Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.”

Matthew 24: 36:42
By Painters of Sultan Murad III – Zubdat-al Tawarikh (Illustrated manuscript)http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~history/Ext/Zubdat.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19900597
 Come look your last, my sons.
We won't see it again:
these fields, these hills, this earth, this sun
will never be the same.
And all that we have known
God's rage is set to claim.
Look once again, before it's done,
before it starts to rain.

What happens after this,
when all has been consumed?
when we have laid one parting kiss
on faces that are doomed?
God's will: that's all there is
to make the world anew
and give us back what we have missed.
Oh, let the rains come soon!
Karl Jenkins, Requiem, Introit.
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