His servants must be always ready, not so much for the Last Day of the world as for the day of their death, which will be the Last Day for each one of us. He told them the parable of the Ten Virgins who had to meet the Bridegroom with lighted lamps. And five were foolish and took no oil with them. And when at midnight came the sudden cry: "Behold, the Bridegroom cometh, go ye forth to meet Him!" they were not ready and were shut out.
"Watch ye, therefore," He said, "for you know not when the lord of the house cometh. And what I say to you I say to all: 'Watch!'"
He went on to tell them what will happen at the end of the world when He comes to judge all men:
"They shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of Heaven with much power and majesty. And He shall send His Angels with a trumpet and a great voice; and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them. And all nations shall be gathered together before Him, and He shall separate them one from another as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats, and He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on His left.
Then shall the King say to them that shall be on His right hand:
Come, ye blessed of My Father, possess you the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Then He shall say to them also that shall be on His left hand:
Depart from Me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels.
And these shall go into everlasting punishment, but the just into life everlasting."
