Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come. It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake.
Therefore stay awake--for you do not know when the master of the house
will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning--
lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake. Mark 13:33-37
Here Jesus is talking to the disciples about what the end times are going to look like. It is a subject that many people speculate about, but the emphasis He places on the timing of the end is not one event. It involves many vague generalities about the state of the world, but in this passage Jesus tells them multiple times, "be awake." Jesus says this three times just in this paragraph - it is the main theme He is trying to communicate. These events are not something to fear, but to live a life in view of eternity continually. If we live a life where we have nothing to be ashamed of before God then we have accomplished the goal Christ is giving to the disciples. It is a mentality that says I want God to be pleased with my life in all areas, and that way whenever He returns I will be found watching for His return.
Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. I John 3:2-3
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