3. For in the last days the false prophets and destroyers shall be multiplied, and the sheep shall be turned into wolves, and love shall be turned into hate. 4. For when lawlessness increases, they shall hate and persecute, and deliver up one another; and then shall appear the world-deceiver as Son of God [Antichrist], and shall do signs and wonders, and the earth shall be delivered into his hands, and he shall commit iniquities which have never yet come to pass from the beginning of the world. 5. And then shall the race of men come into the fire of trial [Tribulation], and many shall be offended and shall perish; but they who endure in their faith shall be saved from under the curse itself [Rapture?]. 6. And then shall appear the signs of the truth: first the sign of opening in heaven; then the sign of the voice of the trumpet; and the third, the resurrection of the dead. 7. Not, however, of all, [no general resurrection of the dead] but as was said, "The Lord shall come, and all the saints with him." 8. Then shall the world see the Lord coming upon the clouds of heaven.